Archive for the ‘type’ Category

KERN for the iPhone

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Quite simple, but probably the most polished game I’ve seen on the iPhone…

KERN definitely puts your designer eyeballing skills to the test.

Read about it here.

Download it here.

WhatTheFont for the iPhone

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

I’ve been using WhatTheFont as a web resource for identifying fonts for years, so I’m pretty stoked that they’ve now released an iPhone version… awesome for out and about use.

Get it here.

TypeDNA

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

TypeDNA is a new font manager with some (hopefully) revolutionary tricks up its sleeve:

“Font Harmony™” helps you choose the right font for the job.
Easily combine fonts to create appealing visuals without having to learn or understand typography! Save hours of time and open a whole new world of visual opportunities .

- “Similar Fonts™” streamlines your search! Just choose a reference font and click ‘Find Similar’. TypeDNA will analyze the characteristics of the your font and list similar one selections you could choose.

- “Font Recognition” determines which font has been used in a flattened JPG file without ever having to leave the Font Manager Adobe Photoshop,  InDesign or Illustrator.

TypeDNA site here.

Sign up for the beta (available sometime this month), here.

via T.U.A.W.

Typographunnies

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Ahh designer humor…

“Keming. the result of improper kerning.”

This, and other “gems” found here.

Identifying a typeface

Monday, July 14th, 2008

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I’ve had great success with these two services when trying to identify typefaces.

If you have an image of the font- try whatthefont… 70% of the time, this is the only step you’ll need.

If not, try identifont, (which asks you a series of questions to narrow down the options within their database).

Lastly, if all else fails- the forums over at whatthefont are excellent (You’ll usually get an answer from someone the same day).

Fontstruct

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

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Robust online font creation application that you can check out here.

Some of the user examples are really impressive.

Book of famous designers’ favorite typefaces

Friday, June 27th, 2008

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More info here.

All the proceeds go to UNICEF’s Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children’s Appeal.