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Legibility/Aesthetics - Improving the reader experience.

... http://www.typophile.com/node/31775 Screw it. Who needs to read Screw it. Who needs to read anyhow. (aek chew alley, I ... experiences in attempting to measure aesthetic aspects of typography. It’s known that people perform better on cognitive tasks after ...

Forum topic - Chris Allen - 28 Oct 2008 - 8:27am - 128 comments - 0 attachments

Help with swash - men's fashion stylist logo

... message, but it didn’t work. The swash for the y needs The swash for the y needs lots of work... Versailles looks ... I am a self-thought graphic designer and I never took typography classes. It may sound silly, bu here’s what I reasoned when ...

Forum topic - Boros - 24 Nov 2008 - 9:20am - 23 comments - 2 attachments

Your latest designs?

... close to completion. Stephen Agamemnon still needs some Agamemnon still needs some tweaks, but I expect a ... I used German text from the Freud website. Given that my typography teachers during the 1960s were from Ulm and Basel, I am not ...

Forum topic - frode frank - 17 Jun 2008 - 8:20am - 138 comments - 0 attachments

The dire state of book typography

... the Bringhurst “bible” and its focus on book typography. I looked at the book I’m presently reading. A somewhat ... charts, tables, etc., and responding to editorial needs and input. Not a lot of designers can do both equally well. I felt ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 16 May 2008 - 9:20am - 123 comments - 0 attachments

Lets poll the typography heads!

... it and see if we can get a poll on election day of the typography crowd up here. So throw them up! Take a few minutes (or more if ... office. I know, he is an early bloomer, and America really needs change right now, but installing a young president who isn’t ...

Forum topic - chadkouri - 4 Nov 2008 - 2:12am - 28 comments - 0 attachments

What are you listening to?

... even more. Happy and delicious. ‹ Schoolbook Typography Archer misses the target › >What did you think ... on that long list. Maybe I should see if the Smithsonian needs any more fossils. Just got through a great Just got through a ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 10:54pm - 464 comments - 0 attachments

'Typography as art'

Hi I’m looking for examples of ’Typography as art’ ie where letterform is the only or main part of a ... topic. Thanks with Flowers That link needs sometime to That link needs sometime to read before I write a comment ...

Forum topic - stephen - 10 Nov 2006 - 3:13am - 77 comments - 0 attachments

Uppercase germandbls is coming to Unicode

... logical, consistent and reader-friendly, “ß” needs (at some point) to assume a single graphemic shape in the uppercase. ... it only as a display solution for a particular piece of typography. For whatever reasons, some Germans have found a use or a need for ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 9 May 2007 - 7:06pm - 246 comments - 0 attachments

Eternal, with some Thai letters started, and Italics

... i rather like the e. what about the ear of the g? maybe needs to be straight? Italic is looking nice i think so i’ll add that in ... everything will stand up to the prolonged scrutiny display typography invites, and at small sizes or text applications the extra detail ...

Forum topic - Bendy - 31 Oct 2008 - 12:31pm - 122 comments - 15 attachments

Critique: Opinions please on this brochure design!

... the choice of font, and typesetting in the block of color needs work to me. Great direction though. There’s a typo on ... quality. ...sorry, that had nothing to do with the typography.. but hope it helps still. LisaO, I agree, it needs a LisaO, ...

Blog entry - chasteauneuf - 6 Nov 2008 - 12:20pm - 15 comments - 1 attachment