John Nack on Adobe

April 23, 2008

Beards, Big B's, and other type bits

• Build fonts right in your browser via the very cool FontStruct. [Via Chris Kantarjiev]
• My friend Bryan sometimes grows what's known as The Beard, a semi-autonomous entity with its own wants and needs (e.g. "I'm not quite ready to go, but The Beard is getting antsy"; "The Beard will speak now...").  This font would be perfect for him--er, them. [Via]
• The Sulzbacher Eszett celebrates forms of what I'll always think of as "that German Big B thing."
• Say it with me, say it with your chest: I {Heart} Transitive Pictographic Verbalizations!
• One of my favorite artists, Jenny Holzer, projects the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska. [Via]
• Receding Hairline features Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes.  (C'mon, you know you're curious.)
• Piranha Bar has fun mixing fun 3D-ish text with illustration in a pair of spots for Failte Ireland.  Background is in this article.

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