Posted: April 15th, 2008 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: Art and Design, Computer Graphics, Random, Web, Web Design | Tags: Cool Sites, Typography, Web | No Comments »
Here’s a cool site. It’s main feature is an RIA that allows you to create fonts and share it with the community. That’s right, creating fonts online for free. I am so impressed with what people can do with the web these days.
You could create any font you could imagine. From simple pixel fonts, to dingbat style fonts.
The gallery is very impressive. There’s some really nice fonts there, all created with FontStruct and free to download and use. You could even “clone” someone else’s work. To download a font, click on the font name or double-click on the preview.
The application itself is a work of art. Its interface is very intuitive, its tools adequate, and it’s just so comfortable playing/working with it. You could save your work, it even has hotkeys for undo, redo, tool selection, etc. Although you are limited to the “bricks” provided, they are more than enough to create a wide variety of fonts.
Go to http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/ to get started in creating your own fonts. You need to register for free though to use the fontstructor and download fonts.
Posted: April 8th, 2008 | Author: John del Rosario | Filed under: Art and Design, Computer Graphics, Web Design | Tags: Art, Design, Typography | No Comments »
I’m a huge typography/font fan. I just can’t stop looking at nice typography. It’s like looking at a woman’s fine bosom (notice the italicised ‘like’) for me. I tried
to be good at it, practiced creating some abrigrams for friends, and
designing stuff using free fonts, but I failed at it. So I decided to
just drool over some of the work other people have done.
Here are links to some of the galleries, blogs and images of type that I just needed to share.
http://ilovetypography.com
Awesome title and awesome posts. A blog about typography (duh!). I check it out everyday.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Another blog. But not just for typography. But their “Free Fonts of
the Month” posts are worth having a look at. And so are their other
posts. 
http://www.typographykicksass.com/
Flash experimental site where you type in text, and it gathers type
images from Flickr and displays the text using those images. Really
kicks ass.
And now for a some images:
Comic Sans town map by denzmixed from deviantart.
That’s Comic Sans by the way.. COMIC SANS! There are more nice typography images in his deviantart page.
Spam one-liners Flickr gallery
Awesome idea about using spam email titles for art. Genius!
Ambigrams
Back in highschool, I was addicted to ambigrams. I lost all my links
to galleries of it though, but I still remember two of my favorites.
John Langdon’s gallery
Punya Mishra’s wordplay gallery
Trivia: The main character from “The Da Vinci Code” was ‘based’ on
John Langdon. He made all the ambigrams of the other not-so-famous
book, “Angels and Demons” by the same author. Check out his gallery for
those ambigrams. They will fock your mind. 
And last but not least, kinetic typography. My favorite of the bunch.
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Just search for ‘typography’ on YouTube and you will be in Kinetic Type heaven.
Well, that’s it for this post. I have a LOT more to show you guys,
especially in the kinetic typography front, but I need to sleep. Hope
you enjoy this post.
EDIT: I almost forgot! Dropclock. Free screensaver for Windows and Mac OSX.
Check out this demo video.
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