John Nack on Adobe : (rt) Typography: Spam ASCII art, ligature charts, & more

April 05, 2011

“Almost Extinct” is a gorgeous set of animals formed from wooden type.
This spam’s use of ASCII art charms me. Time to meet the Russian ladies!
How great is this word-puzzle wrapping paper? Margot ordered some immediately.
The intriguing Chartwell font uses ligatures to make charts from text. See what I mean. [Via]

Posted by John Nack at 8:24 AM on April 05, 2011

Mel Brown — 2:18 PM on April 05, 2011 Reply

I am SO happy that you didn’t put “Margot ordered some immediately” under “Time to meet the Russian ladies.”

[I kind of thought that her lady-ordering went without saying. ;-) --J.]
Mhelcor — 1:23 AM on April 06, 2011 Reply

nice wrapping paper :)
in one of the “how-to” images you can see a “tile” of 18×18 letters where all “valid” words are highlighted, the rest is just random characters filled in.
still, nice.