Typography

By Gareth Coxon, 10 Oct 11

KernType – A Kerning Game

I can’t imagine there are many kerning based games knocking about the internet, so it was great to stumble upon this one via Twitter. ‘Kern Me’ is a Html 5 built website that challenges designers and a like to kern various words and be scored on the results.

I scored 85% on my first turn, can you beat it?
Please post your results below…

 


By Gareth Coxon, 23 Dec 10

Are you a Comic Sans Criminal?

If you are this website is here to help www.ComicSansCriminal.com .

“Helping people like you to learn to use Comic Sans appropriately.”

A tongue in cheek look at how the typeface has been used and abused over the years and then offering ‘the Comic Sans Pledge’.

Make sure you sign yours… (more…)


By Gareth Coxon, 18 Dec 10

What type are you?

Great bit of fun over at Pentagram with their ‘What Type Are You?’ interactive piece.
Turns out I’m ‘Universal’ have a go and let us know What Type You Are…


By Gareth Coxon, 11 Feb 09

Identify that font: ‘What the font’ for the IPhone

I Needed to share this little story I spotted over at swiss-miss.com

MyFonts have introduced WhatTheFont for iPhone

WhatTheFont can identify a fonts name from an upload image.

The iPhone version of WhatTheFont uses the IPhone’s built-in camera to photograph the text, then the application allows you to crop the image and focus on only the important parts before uploading.

You then confirm the characters that are used in the image and the app gives you a list of matching fonts, great for grabbing fonts on the move when you spot one of interest.

I’ve tried it out and it seems pretty good, but of course it all depends on the quality of the image you manage to take with you phone, but for FREE you can’t go wrong really!

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