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Showing posts with label Type. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Type. Show all posts
Friday, 2 September 2011
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Friday, 15 July 2011
I ♥ Word Clouds
So... I am now obsessed with wordle.net
Just type in a URL and it'll word cloud up a website! I typed in my blog and these are the results:
Just type in a URL and it'll word cloud up a website! I typed in my blog and these are the results:
Say it with llamas
This week I have found the need to create a word cloud (as you do) and discovered this highly useful website..
www.wordle.net
Just type in any copy, and voila, a perfectly formed word cloud is formed...
You can choose font, colour palette, orientation and background colour to great effect:
And here's another type-related site that's great for those occasions when you just need to say it with llamas...
www.llamafont.com
www.wordle.net
Just type in any copy, and voila, a perfectly formed word cloud is formed...
You can choose font, colour palette, orientation and background colour to great effect:
And here's another type-related site that's great for those occasions when you just need to say it with llamas...
www.llamafont.com
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
The Alphabet of Buildings
German photographer, Lisa Rienermann has spent months photographing the skyline created by buildings. She has created the entire alphabet by taking pictures of the space in-between buildings in Barcelona...
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Long Copy Ads
Friday, 23 July 2010
Putting the Sans in Comic Sans
I have just read a very interesting article on the BBC news website, entitles, 'Do typefaces really matter?'
It gives some great examples of how fonts can subliminally influence the reader. For example, in logos for more traditional establishments your font needs to reinforce a sense of stability and safety.
There is also a reference to the uproar that the film Avatar recently caused. I don't know whether you would of noticed, but the first thing that struck me when watching the film was the strange choice of subtitle font. Only after reading this article have a realised I was not the only one to dislike it. Apparently there was some sort of anti-Papyrus uproar (Papyrus is the name of the font)on the internet.
This also made me think about other fonts that are laughed at by the design community. For example, the notorious Comic Sans. I found this amusing Hitler short on YouTube:
There is even an anti-Comic Sans website: www.bancomicsans.com which claimes to put the 'sans' in Comic Sans.
The font is even quoted as one of Time Magazine's 50 worst inventions of all time:
"Imagine a whole operating system designed around Clippy, and you get the crux of Microsoft Bob. Designed to be an easier interface for Windows 95 users, Bob envisioned your computer as his house — with you as a guest. Ever so accommodating, he'd even supply cartoon sidekicks to guide you through simple tasks. The software was expensive and overly cutesy, and it failed to compete with Apple's Macintosh, the user-friendly standard. And though Bob is long gone, he left one enduring blight on the Web: Comic Sans, perhaps the worst font of all time, was created exclusively for Bob."
It gives some great examples of how fonts can subliminally influence the reader. For example, in logos for more traditional establishments your font needs to reinforce a sense of stability and safety.
There is also a reference to the uproar that the film Avatar recently caused. I don't know whether you would of noticed, but the first thing that struck me when watching the film was the strange choice of subtitle font. Only after reading this article have a realised I was not the only one to dislike it. Apparently there was some sort of anti-Papyrus uproar (Papyrus is the name of the font)on the internet.
This also made me think about other fonts that are laughed at by the design community. For example, the notorious Comic Sans. I found this amusing Hitler short on YouTube:
There is even an anti-Comic Sans website: www.bancomicsans.com which claimes to put the 'sans' in Comic Sans.
The font is even quoted as one of Time Magazine's 50 worst inventions of all time:
"Imagine a whole operating system designed around Clippy, and you get the crux of Microsoft Bob. Designed to be an easier interface for Windows 95 users, Bob envisioned your computer as his house — with you as a guest. Ever so accommodating, he'd even supply cartoon sidekicks to guide you through simple tasks. The software was expensive and overly cutesy, and it failed to compete with Apple's Macintosh, the user-friendly standard. And though Bob is long gone, he left one enduring blight on the Web: Comic Sans, perhaps the worst font of all time, was created exclusively for Bob."
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