Freaky, Frightening, Fantastic Font Friday
A fun look at “scary” typography in the pop-culture occult over the last 125 years or so: Ouija boards, comic books, TV shows, and movies. Original article is here.
Font-Pairs Font Friday
Here are five font generator sites with added special sauce: pairings of fonts. (Not to be confused with my earlier bog post Four or Five Fonts Friday, which suggested techniques for creating harmonious larger font groupings.) ByPeople has created 50 Google Font pairings. Each pair is shown in a layout—truly a labor of love. You can go to […]
The National Gallery of Art is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments and primers
A great article about a museum collection of the pigments in artists’ paint tubes, preserved for posterity (more pix at the link). From Atlas Obscura. One of the lesser known collections at the National Gallery of Art lies behind an unmarked door in the employees-only section, where conservators have amassed an unrivaled hoard of 21,000 paints, […]