This kid made a steel rose prom corsage for his date
OK it’s prom season and looking back who among us wouldn’t have preferred a handmade steel rose corsage? This kid (and his mom! extra adorable!) made one for his prom date: I made a steel-rose corsage for my prom date! by ThomasBenn via iPhone
Fenotype Foundry Font Friday
Fenotype Font Company is the type foundry of Finland-based type designer Emil Bertell. Bertell started Fenotype in 2012 and has designed hundreds of typefaces since then. You can see all his fonts at http://www.fenotype.com/font/fontpage.htm and download the free ones there. Below is a short article from MyFonts, where Bertell’s commercial typefaces are available. His typefaces there are […]
Fear Font Friday 1
Puttin’ the frighteners on ya! Here are seven classic posters—lots more at fontmeme.com. Not to be confused with my post Fear Font Friday 2. 28 Days Later Font 28 Days Later font here refers to the font used in the poster title for the movie 28 Days Later, which is a horror zombie movie that […]
Finance Font Friday
Financial institutions have traditionally wanted to create a feeling of stability and trust, but more recently some consumer banks have opted for a feeling of vibrancy and energy. Either way, banks et al. therefore spend a great deal of time and money on their branding: cool, dark colors and serif fonts for the traditional logos, […]
Fresh Font Friday from Font Meme
A sampling of new and fresh fonts from Font Meme, an awesome online resource for free fonts. There are many, many more—four pages’ worth!—at https://fontmeme.com/font-finder/. Madelyn – Handwritten Script Font by Fontfabric
Font Technologies Font Friday
This article, from SmashingMagazine.com, explicates the concept of parametric fonts. The concept has been around for 40+ years but it has novel applications in web type design. How Font Technologies Will Improve the Web PARAMETRIC FONTS (original article) Words are the primary component of content for the web. However, until a short while ago, all […]
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, […]
14,000+ color names! Just type in a hex code
Smashing Magazine‘s Smashing Newsletter Issue #190 has this gem: more than 14,000 color names, accessible by entering a 6-digit hex code. Some examples below. Click on “quick! Find one of 14’000 color names!” to get the HTML, CSS, and JS code (see below). What comes to your mind when you hear terms like “Bright Nori”, […]
Pantone announces new purple shade in honor of Prince
In collaboration with the singer’s estate, the company announced the release of a new purple hue, called Love Symbol #2, in honor of his signature color. The new hue has been dubbed Love Symbol #2, after the singer’s logo and custom-made Yamaha purple piano. Throughout Prince’s career, he became indelibly associated with the color, from […]
FontStruct ‘Arabic Pixel’ Font Friday
Via online font-building tool FontStruct comes this ingenious pixelcraft from game designer Alex Clay, who is localizing video games in Arabic. (See my post Create-a-Font Friday for a list of paid and free font creation software.) Previously, a lot of effort has gone into hacking code to get Arabic text, especially punctuation and positioning, to appear […]
Fontfabric Font Friday
Fontfabric.com is a fantastic resource for loads of imaginative, classic-ish (and free!) fonts. I say classic-ISH because the kerning of many of the stalwarts of type design—the Garamonds, Akzidenz Grotesks, and Avenirs—is correct and appropriate only in paid versions. Paid providers also have the most trendy, cutting-edge fonts. Here are several recent Fontfabric examples, but there are […]
Feline Fabric Font Friday
This charming fabric of acrobatic kitties was created by designer Elena Naylor and is available by the yard at Spoonflower, a great print-on-demand fabric company. Spoonflower has a wide range of fabrics available, from chiffon to heavy cotton twill to lycra (full list below). I reference them in my post How to Make a Tea Cozy […]
Pastries Like You’ve Never Seen Before by Dinara Kasko
From Design Milk‘s weekly blog. Design Milk showcases architecture, art, home, interiors, and more. 06.30.17 Posted by Pinch Food Design Ukraine pastry chef Dinara Kasko breaks the mold with her artistic approach to baking cakes. Using 3D printing technology she not only creates never before seen cake forms, but she then delights you with pastry surprises when […]
Found Font Friday – original
With regard to the surreptitious disposal and triumphant recovery of the Doves Type from London’s Thames River (from an article in typespec magazine): The Doves Type® revival . Not to be confused with my post Font Friday 2, about fonts created from lettering and signs found in the great outdoors. Raised from the dead: The Doves Type […]
Forgotten Font Friday
A lovely type-related article from Atlas Obscura, chroniclers of the strange and wonderful. The Lost Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins The pioneering designer created dozens of fonts, only a few of which are still around today. By CARA GIAIMO for Atlas Obscura
Free Tree Font Friday
From Atlas Obscura. Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist’s Invented Tree Font The plants are speaking. Time to read what they have to say. The phrase “about trees,” shown in the font Trees
Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces
by Christopher Jobson from colossal.com Wikipedia Kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and to visibly incorporate the repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. The […]
(Batman) Forever Font Friday
From 3D print vendor JB Cookie Cutters, cookie cutters in the shapes of the “Batman Forever” font! Really! You can use these with cookie dough, with fondant to decorate the cake of a lucky child (or adult), or with any rolled material. The “Q” is backwards, but nobody’s perfect.
Japanese Artist Creates Fun Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 5 Years
From boredpanda.com Since 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating creative and playful miniature dioramas. Not only has he not shown any sign of stopping since we last wrote about him, but he seems to be getting better and better Tanaka has been collecting the creative images into an everyday calendar that you can follow on Facebook or […]
Film Font Friday, Wes Anderson Edition
See also Film Fonts Friday 1; (Bond) Film Fonts Friday; Font Film Font Friday; and (Oscar) Film Font Friday. Sara Enríquez from Madrid, Spain created these whimsical typographic illustrations as an homage to film director Wes Anderson. See if you can figure out which film each letter goes with, then scroll down to check your […]
Funny Font Friday 1
Here are five movies (of many) from fontmeme.com to make you giggle, laugh, or perhaps snort. See also my post Funny Font Friday 2, a silly alphabet book ca. 1850. Parks and Recreation Font Parks and Recreation is an American television sitcom starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, mid-level bureaucrat in the parks […]
Fantasy Font Friday
Escape to a world that never was in these movies and TV shows. A better world? A worse one? You decide. Via fontmeme.com. Here are six but there are many more. Spirited Away Font Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The […]
Family Font Friday
Fun fonts from family films! Via fontmeme.com. Here are five titles but there are many more. Marley & Me Font Marley & Me font here refers to the font used in the poster of Marley & Me, which is a 2008 American comedy drama movie about the adorable but naughty and neurotic dog, Marley, from […]
Fightin’ Font Friday 2
Action fonts! Movie posters with all the fightin’ fonts you need, from fontmeme.com. Here are five but there are many more. See also my post Fightin’ Font Friday 1, a typeface for model combat aircraft. Spectre (Film) Font Spectre is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It was directed by Sam Mendes […]
Far, Far Away Font Friday
From Yves Peters at fontshop.com on December 14, 2015 (revised December 20, 2015): An exhaustive article on the various versions of the fonts for the “iconic opening [text] crawl” and posters for each Star Wars movie! To say a whole lot of people are getting a whole lot of excited about Star Wars: The Force […]
Le Choléra: Le Petit Journal, December 1, 1912
One hundred and three years ago today, Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper, featured an illustration of cholera, which was decimating the troops of World War I: Death cuts through the marching men with a scythe. Notably, the men wear the red fez, identifying them as Tirailleurs Sénégalais. (Tirailleur translates variously as “skirmisher,” “rifleman,” or […]
92-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Amazingly Complex Temari Balls
By Noel Kat from mymodernmet: These stunning embroidered balls called “temari” were made by the prodigiously nimble fingers of a 92-year-old grandmother in Japan. Although she only learned this elaborate skill in her sixties, she has since created nearly 500 unique designs that have been photographed by her granddaughter NanaAkua. Impressive does not even begin […]
‘Forgetting the Point of a Website’ Font Friday
An excellent rant from a developer who’s sick of designers using “cool” but unreadable web fonts. Written in 2012, so many advances have been made since then towards getting cool type to be readable (e.g. Google Fonts), but the point stands. Web font rant, forgetting the point of a website This is just a rant […]
Monaco’s Pantone Cafe is a Beautiful Place to Eat
From mentalfloss: Image credit: Pantone Cafe Pantone—the corporation behind the popular color-matching system developed by Lawrence Herbert in 1963—now has a cafe that blends pastries with their trademark aesthetic. Arguably one of the most photogenic cafes in the world, the restaurant invites customers to “taste the colors.” It’s hard not to feel like you’re eating […]
A Selfie on the Edge of Space
By Glen Tickle from Laughing Squid: A recent episode of the series Seeker Stories explains how photographer Christopher Michel was able to take a selfie at the age of space. While on assignment, Michel was given the opportunity to fly in a Lockheed U-2 spy plane that provided him some impressive views of the Earth.
Multinational Typeface, Letters Based on National Flags
From ad agency GSK Unit @Grey Singapore. Much has been written and said about the needs of our global economy. In fact: heated debates have and are still taking place about the dichotomy of global vs. local. Here’s our take on it all: when you set up a new hub to work with the rest […]
‘Comic Papyrus’: A Typeface Combo of the Two Loathed Fonts Papyrus and Comic Sans
By Justin Page from Laughing Squid. Papyrus and Comic Sans are two widely available typefaces that are often said to be overused and criticized by graphic designers. Artist Rob Barth of the Barth and Co design firm took it into his own hands earlier this year to create a typeface combo, appropriately titled “Comic Papyrus,” […]
Four or Five Fonts Friday
Combining fonts is an art rather than a science, but there are basics that will help you make decisions. Typography.com has some ideas. (Not to be confused with my blog post Font-Pairs Font Friday, which suggests five websites for AI-generated two-font pairings.) Four Techniques for Combining Fonts Building a palette is an intuitive process, and […]
Folies Facade Font Friday
The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France. Established in 1869, the house was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s through the 1920s. The building was updated in the 1920s with a strong Art Deco font and sculptural inset. The type on top of the building […]
Fuller Folies Font Friday
The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France. Established in 1869, the house was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s’ Belle Époque through the 1920s’ Années folles. (See my post about the Folies facade here.) Loie (Loïe) Fuller was an American modern dancer and choreographer who […]
Fingers, Facial Hair, and Phalluses Font Friday
Art History Masterpieces Transformed Into Surreal Typefaces By Alison Nastasi from Flavorwire Typography and art nerds, this one’s for you. Israeli designer Oded Ezer (who we first spotted on Co.Design) enjoys playing with type to create unusual fonts — and he’s designed some humorous typefaces inspired by the annals of art history. Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, […]
Foreign Font Friday 1
These foreign-look fonts explore the different shapes and rhythms of non-roman type, in a roman font. All are available here.
Fruitcake Font Friday
Oxfam 2011 Holiday Campaign by Jessica Hische For the 2011 holiday season, Oxfam International enlisted the beautiful lettering and illustration work of Jessica Hische. Besides all of the excellent typography and witty messaging, these ads encourage donations for a wonderful cause. Oxfam consists of multiple international groups that partner and campaign for resolving poverty and […]
Flip-Free Font Friday
Christian Boer designs typeface for readers with dyslexia “When they’re reading, people with dyslexia often unconsciously switch, rotate and mirror letters in their minds,” said Boer, who is dyslexic himself. This “anti-flip” typeface is designed to reduce that possibility. Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: a typeface created specifically for dyslexic people by Dutch designer Christian Boer […]
Fantastic Four Font Friday
From fontmeme.com: “Fantastic Four font” here refers to the font used in the poster title of Fantastic Four, which is an American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics of the same name. The film was directed by Tim Story and released in 2005. The font used in the title for the theatrical release poster […]
Fungus Font Friday
Great shimeji mushrooms font from handmadefont: Mystical mushrooms create interesting letter figures, bringing an original atmosphere to an illustration. Super food can create super designs, give it a chance. Mushroom font is made of high-resolution photos and contains letters, symbols and numbers. Every letter has a transparent background ready for placement in your design. Mushrooms […]
Found Font Friday 1
Printing blocks for a typeface called Doves Type have been discovered in the River Thames, London. By Rachael Steven from CreativeReview. Not to be confused with my blog post Found Font Friday 2. Image taken by Sam Armstrong, courtesy of The Sunday Times. Scroll to the bottom to see a short video by the BBC […]
#Ferguson Font Friday
Use any goddamn font you like to help out: Michael Brown Memorial Fund Feed the Students of Ferguson Fund. Ferguson schools have been closed since Monday, and many students depend on school meals. Donations go directly to the St. Louis Area Food Bank. For information about volunteering, go here. Attend (or organize) a nonviolent demonstration […]
Filament Font Friday
Tesla Font, a Free Font “The inspiration for this typeface was found in the circuitry of lightbulb filament and wiring intricately crossing paths.” DOWNLOAD TESLA ALTERNATE HERE
Follicle Font Friday
Kind of disgusting, but cool. An Eccentric, Wacky Typeface Created With Hair By Loke Shi Ying from DesignTaxi Amsterdam-based designer Monique Goossens has recently created a fun and wacky typeface out of human hair. This interesting typeface is constructed out of strands of hair gathered together. Each clump of hair is shaped to form a […]
Font Film Font Friday
See also Film Fonts Friday 1; Film Font Friday, Wes Anderson Edition; (Bond) Film Font Friday; and (Oscar) Film Font Friday An homage to Times New Roman, a typeface designed for The [London] Times in 1931 and used everywhere since. From the Unquiet Film Series. https://www.dandad.org/awards/professional/2015/branded-film-content-entertainment/24476/the-times-unquiet-film-series-times-new-roman/