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July 14, 2008
Monday Type: Vintage bits, hand jives, & more
- In their Sunday Vintage Type post, i love typography shares more good links than you can eat. It's worth a click if only for that first gorgeous Karmann Ghia logotype.
- Hands of Fate:
- I dig Douglas Wilson's Vernacular Typography Polaroids--Polaroids taken of mostly hand-painted signs over the past four years all across the United States. [Via]
- Do great typographers have great handwriting? Judge for yourself. [Via]
- Type seldom looks worse to me than when a faux-handwriting or brush font gives itself away via perfectly repeated characters. House Industries shows off how automatic character substitution through Open Type addresses the problem. [Via]
- On the Web:
- Typetester lets you compare multiple typefaces easily. (This is the sort of thing I'd love to see running in streamlined form as a Flash or AIR panel inside Creative Suite apps.)
- Ralf Herrmann reviews kerning & Open Type features in Firefox 3 . (A Web browser supporting ligatures? I really never thought I'd see it.
- Think type is too easy to steal? Fight back with a 17.5lb cast iron ampersand. Bam!
- Photoshop type chops:
- Veerle shows off the use of Smart Filters on text in Photoshop CS3.
- Create reflective liquid type in Photoshop.
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