Ought to have been Typopoly. From timbasmits.com. 'PROJECT / FONTOPOLY & MR FONOTOPOLY CHARACTER DESIGN FOR "GO FONT YOURSELF" EXHIBITION'
Timba Smits, a
London-based
graphic designer from
Melbourne,
Australia, created this lovely poster called
Fontopoly. This looks like a fun game, although like most of these type projects, I'm sure helvetica wasn't there, and arial.
Found on armina_79 Twitter
There was this I saw recently too, the
fontgame.ilovetypography.com & Type Trumps over at
Face37.com
'After the hugely successful Type Trumps comes the much awaited sequel — Type Trumps 2 — 30 new designs showing different
typefaces being assigned
numerical values. Type Trumps, a play on Top Trumps, uses figures to enable the cards to be won or lost using some of the tried and tested 'Top Trumps' rules.
The Type Trumps have a 'ranking', which is a subjectively ascribed positional value based on my personal favourites'
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USA
As featured in
Creative Review, UK
Wired, UK
Computer Arts, UK
Digital Arts, UK
Published on 2010/04/15 4:26 pm.
Filed under: font, games, type, typographic Tags: Australia, Creative Review, design, font, Fun Game, Graphic design, Graphic Designer, Melbourne, type, Typeface, Typography, United States
Love this! Every student, designer, person has to have the ability to immerse themselves in type physically rather than just mentally.
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I feel sorry for the characters at the top of these 26 strings with over 4,000 floating letters. Please, please say you can buy this as blinds in your
window. Would be very much frowned upon by my partner but she can lump it, how cool! Bring it to the
UK, fonts definitely Shape our western Langauge, but this
would shape our experience of it.
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www.daltonmaag.com
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05.03. – 12.06.2010
Thankyou Bruno
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http://www.walking-chair.com/
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found in creative review april 2010, btw... I dont like the 3d,
sans serif, drop caps. But the grey is good, the
Caslon revamp and the general overall redesign, 1 thumb up ;o).
Published on 2010/03/30 11:29 pm.
Filed under: design, engagement, font, interactive, landscapes, language, type, typographic Tags: Caslon, font, Graphics, Home and Garden, immersive, Individual Designers, Sans Serif, Shopping, Windows
I love this ad. This is the first TV commercial from the new international
advertising campaign by ‘AMEX‘,
directed by Kuntzel+Deygas
(add
a dog), agency: Ogilvy
& Mather UK.
Agency : Ogilvy & Mather UK
Creative director : Dennis Lewis
Writer : Sue Higgs
Art director : Andrew Bird
TV Producer : Kim Parret
This follows on from their faces, see more here: http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2009/american-express-faces/
http://www.addadog.com/v3/fiche.php?special=addadog&id=261
Published on 2010/03/12 11:53 pm.
Filed under: creative, type, typographic, words Tags: Advertising, Advertising and Marketing, Agencies, Business and Economy, Interpublic Group of Companies, Ogilvy & Mather, Television advertisement, United States
One periodic table that will continue to expand as the name periodic suggests as glyphs grow in Typographic design. Its inspiration from the abbreviated typographer isn't bad either, another gem from the Fontshop.
Good use of colour to visually organise with otf's and ttf's at the top corners.
'An evolving project by Jürgen Siebert inspired by Yves Peters’ The Abbreviated Typographer. Featuring FF Unit. Suggestions welcome.
PDF Download » Learn more typographical terms in our newly expanded Glossary » '
Found in: Design: A gallery curated by Mehmet Ulga on flickr. The inspiration was this The Abbreviated Typographer
'This post was originally written for FontShop Benelux’s Unzipped, by Yves Peters. Learn more typographical terms in our newly expanded Glossary. And be sure to check out Jürgen Siebert’s Periodic Table of Font Elements.
Table set in FF Hydra and FF Hydra Extended (quite a nice font btw, looks very DIN inspired)
A while ago I explained on The FontFeed what the suffixes SH and SB – found in Scangraphic Digital Type Collection fonts – meant. Yet there are a lot more abbreviations which are commonly used in the world of typography, and especially digital fonts. Some relate to glyph sets and font formats, others to design traits and foundries, and so on. Their meaning may be obvious for the seasoned type user, but I can imagine that many type novices – and even regular users – can be confused by a good number of them. Here’s a comprehensive overview*. I think I’ve got all of them, but if you encounter any that aren’t included please feel free to contact me and I’ll add them to the list. Abbreviations of type styles and weights will be covered in a FontFeed post. (*) If you are looking for a specific abbreviation scroll down to the bottom of the post for an alphabetical list.'
Glyph Sets
'Thanks to
Unicode 5.0 and the
OpenType format nowadays fonts can accommodate up to 65,535 graphic characters. The
PostScript Type 1 format – the previous professional standard – on the other hand is limited to 256 glyphs per file. This may seem sufficient, but actually is
just enough for the alphabet in upper and lower case, numerals and punctuation, accented characters for a number of European languages and a
number of specials like currency and mathematical characters. So no refined features like small caps, oldstyle numerals, additional ligatures, swashes, ornaments and so on. Those have to be stored in additional font files, which are identified by specific abbreviations. All abbreviations below are found in
PostScript Type fonts only.
Exp | Expert Set
Depending on the foundry Expert Sets can hold different configurations of glyphs. The naming implies that those fonts provide all the characters missing in the standard fonts that a typographic expert may have need of. Originally Expert Sets included only small caps, oldstyle or hanging figures, additional ligatures, often super- and subscript letters and numbers, plus some additional special characters and sometimes swashed characters. Normal height capitals were absent, and their slots were occupied by other expert characters. This made Expert fonts rather unwieldy, as converting capitalised words to small caps meant one had select the lowercase characters separately
and switch them to the Expert fonts.
SC | Small Caps |
OsF | Oldstyle Figures
Small Caps and Oldstyle Figures fonts were the solution to this problem [...]'. Many more in the glossary. Learn more about fonts with Type & Typography by Baines& Haslam (great general reference), A Type Primer by John Kane (very detailed and clear) & The Art of Looking sideways by alan fletcher (mass of inspiration)
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a great critique of periodic table style was done by robert here:
http://eagereyes.org/blog/2009/visualization-is-not-periodic.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fontshop/4134128747/
http://www.fontshop.com/blog/?p=1184
Published on 2010/01/01 8:41 pm.
Filed under: periodic, type, typographic, Uncategorized Tags: Benelux, Btw, Curated, Font Elements, Font Formats, Foundries, Glyphs, Graphic Characters, Hydra, Lower Case, Novices, Opentype Format, Otf, Periodic Table, Periodic Tble, Postscript Type, Professional Standard, Siebert, Suffixes, Ttf, Typographer, Typographic Design, Typographical Terms, Ulga, Unit Suggestions, Unzipped
In 1989 Erik and Joan Spiekermann signed contracts with leading type foundries, packed their small office with floppy disks full of fonts, and started taking phone orders.
FontShop became the first independent retailer of digital type. Twenty years later we’re still stocking the best fonts (though the number has grown and the medium has changed) and still answering phones.
Its a great clean, clear and bold infographic sectioning off different infographic styles.
from: http://www.fontshop.com/20years/
found: http://www.datavisualization.ch/showcases/typography-meets-infographics
Published on 2009/11/08 2:25 pm.
Filed under: aesthetic, beautiful, brockmann, clean, clear, creative, graphic, information, time, type, typographic, visual thinking, white space
absolutely brilliant. ok the classifying isn't perfect but the execution is
top notch. they're must know fonts for designers from gunter gerhard ith akidenz
grotesk, goudy, cassandre, baskerville, tshichold, benton, renner... and... the
dates they were created.
when i did the periodic table of design and when i did type timeline... i
thought that there had to be one made for typefaces. it has gratefully been
fulfilled in excellant style.
love it, enjoy it, share it.
see more periodic table subversions here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/main/search/search?q=periodic+table
quite a few.
also i'm included there: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1119
/ http://visualthinkmap.blogspot.com/2008/08/periodic-table-of-design.html
from: via @azaaza: Periodic table of Typefaces: http://tinyurl.com/ar8cz7
you might like: Type Timeline Half 1
found: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InformationArchitectsJapan/~3/fVfaDMMDBv8/
Published on 2009/03/21 3:10 am.
Filed under: clean, clear, composition, design, font, hierachy, information, periodic, simon patterson, swiss, type, typographic, visual thinking, white space
