Category Archives: Typography

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 [...]

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Artist / Designer Interview 2 – Oddhero

This months artist / designer interview is with Oddhero a duo who design and sell  Prints and TShirts …
David Gray and Stewart Bremner are two of Oddhero’s founders.
Gray is based in New York City, Bremner in Edinburgh, Scotland.
How long have you been an graphic artist?
DG: Never have, I’m a magazine and newspaper designer who loves [...]

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Design Book Review – Hand Job : A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry

This is the first in a monthly series of design book reviews, where I’ll cover the books that really are inspiring to me or are just a great design resource. The books I’ll be covering will range in subjects from graphic design through to arts related books.
Hand Job : A Catalog of Type by Michael [...]

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Create and build your own font

I’ve used StumbleUpon for sometime now, its a great way of, well, stumbling upon art and design related sites you just wouldn’t usually have found.
Recently I came across Fontstruct a great little site that enables you to easily create typefaces/fonts out of grided shapes which it then creates in to usable TrueType fonts. The fonts [...]

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