Earth Font???

Rhett Dashwood has spent his spare time from October 2008 to April 2009 searching Google Maps in hopes of discovering land formations and buildings resembling letterforms. These are the typographic landscapes he has spotted in Victoria, Australia. Rhett works as the Director of Wade in Melbourne, Australia and is the founder of the online creative resource Heavy Backback.

More than meets the eye

His experimental typographic project “The Depth of Typography” challenges the assumption that type is flat and only viewed from a single vantage point. His glyphs bend and twist through space, creating abstract sculptural forms. However, when viewed from face on the traditional typographic form is maintained. 

Print is back, back, baby!!!

In print design, typography is one of the more crucial aspects. Typography is essential the practice of organizing, arranging, and modifying type. The typography techniques uesed in print has a direct impact on how the reader is able to receive the image. In print, typography doesn’t have to be plain and boring. It can be beautiful, creative, and colorful. There are a number of ways to liven up typography, such as creative and original layouts, using color variations, use of fancy fonts, and much more. Here is one design made beautiful through the use of of a clean, sans serif font.

Did you say humanity or humanist?

These are Sans faces that are derived from handwriting, as clean and modern as some of them may look, they still retain something inescapably human at their root. Compare the ‘t’ in the image above to the ‘t’ in ‘Geometric’ and note how much more detail and idiosyncrasy the Humanist ‘t’ has.

This is the essence of the Humanist Sans: whereas Geometric Sans are typically designed to be as simple as possible, the letter forms of a Humanist font generally have more detail, less consistency, and frequently involve thinner and thicker stoke weights — after all they come from our handwriting, which is something individuated. At their best, Humanist Sans manage to have it both ways: modern yet human, clear yet empathetic. At their worst, they seem wishy-washy and fake, the hand servants of corporate insincerity.

Examples of Humanist Sans: Gill Sans, Frutiger, Myriad, Optima, Verdana.

Think you're a pro typographer?

Here's a little addicting typography game to try out! For all you typography lovers, 

sans-serif or not!

http://type.method.ac/

WARNING: YOU MAY HAVE A NEW ADDICTION SEEK MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IF YOU CAN NO LONGER SLEEP DUE TO EXCESSIVE HOURS OF PLAY.

Arts&Crafts Boys and Girls

You want beauty, strength, and a personal touch in your poster or design? Use a handmade sans-serif or create one almost out of anything. Whether you draw it out by hand to achieve the same boldness with a bit of imperfection, or you cut things up to create the same effect. Give your inner kindergarten art class child a chance.