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December 19, 2007
Trajan: The hack designer’s friend
“Trajan Trajan Trajan…”–it’s the Marsha Brady of fonts, at least when it comes to movie titles & posters. Kirby Ferguson rips hack designers a new one in this very funny video. Mark Hamburg quips, “If we want ‘cinematic’ UIs, then we obviously need to revise our typography…”
In other typography news:
- A new tutorial promises to teach everything about text in Photoshop. [Via] I haven’t probed & can’t vouch for its quality. For more tips, see my 12 Tips for Photoshop Text, which Russell Brown demos & expands upon in this video.
- Jenny Beorkrem makes very cool typographical posters of cities. [Via]
- Rob Rohan talks about Nciku, a tool that enables you to look up Chinese characters by drawing them. [Via]
- Eric Gill: great typographer, reeeal sketchy dude. I think I’m going to be raising an eyebrow at BBC posters for a while. [Via]
- Jon Tan has put together the Web Fonts Test Suite, useful for seeing the core Web fonts set with varying sizes/styles. (Baskerville sure has a pretty italic ampersand.)
- Depending on your political leaning, you might enjoy this little bit of typesetting. (Well, you might just enjoy the clever design treatment in any case.)
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Hey John, They got so sick of Trajan at the university of Kansas that they have a website trajansucks.com . Kansas used to have a very recognizable letterform for all their athletic teams and last year they went thru and changed everything over to Trajan for a very bland, uniformed look.
[Hah--that's awesome! Thanks for the lead. --J.]
The Web Fonts Test Suite looks nice, reminded me a couple of other useful resources on web type.
- Typetester — the Ultimate online tool, interactive widget (JS) for instant testing of web type.
- The companion site to the book “CSS, DHTML, & Ajax visual quickstart guide” offers a handy PDF of browser safe fonts as a free download.
Trajan bashing seems to be a popular hobby.
There’s also a Trajan movie called ‘Etched in stone’ on Veer.com
Trojan bashing should be a popular hobby!
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