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.

Sans-Serifs For Web

Coding a new website? Looking for a large selection of beautiful sans-serifs that will appear on every browser's screen? Take a step back from the basic CSS sans-serifs and browse through Google web fonts.


Google web fonts provides you with the code you place in your HTML and CSS, it's as easy as command c /command v.


http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select

Frontage Font

Frontage is a charming layered type system with endless design possibilities using different combinations of fonts and colors. Achieve a realistic 3D effect by adding the shadow font or just use the capital letters of the regular and bold cut for stark artwork.

The typeface's design is based on a simple grid which creates the friendly, handcrafted look of facade signs. It is generously spaced for maximum impact of your message.

As a display typeface Frontage loves color and is suitable for headlines and logotypes. Details include 224 characters in six styles and manually edited kerning.

Make Your Message Heard

You have an opinion, you want to get a message across. The first thing that will catch people's attention and awareness is how you get that across. Often we resort to strikes, posters, or graffiti. To make your message clear and strong there is no better font choice than a sans-serif. Sans-serif fonts are bold, strong, and powerful typefaces that are not only legible and clear, but can help portray the meaning behind your message.

Fresh Sans-serifs

You love sans-serifs, but you don't know where you can find some new, modern, and free ones? Yes, FREE. The Lost Type Co-Op is a Pay-What-You-Want Type foundry, the first of its kind. Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world, with its unique model. Take advantage while these last and try experimenting with some new sans-serifs! www.losttype.com


Here are some of my favourites: 

Design and Play

Some suggest that readability is better when using a sans-serif font. Looking back at some of the classic board games, it seems that sans-serif was the more popular choice over a serif font. Perhaps the reason for this is when the text is shorter and when the demographic spans all ages, sans serif typefaces are more effective. It is believed that it is easier for children to read a serif typeface over a serif.

This gets more technical than the demographic and the feud between sans serif and serif typeface. There is another science behind using a serif typeface over sans serif when it comes to print. Typically around the age when all these games were being produced the details were in the resolution when the box went to print. Studies say that when reading a sans serif font in print it is easier to read due to the dpi. On screen we deal with pixels, but in print we deal with dots. Serif fonts require more pixels to display their extra details. When transferring this to print creating the smaller details on a serif typeface was much more difficult than creating a serif typeface. The details sometimes would get lost or blurred in the transition.

Hand-made typeface for a Machine-made age

There is something very appealing about a hand-made element in a digital or print design. Perhaps the reason is that we are so accustomed to this idea of perfection this machine-age has created for us, that when we come across handmade forms it achieves different goals. Ones that cannot be generated by machine such as craftsmanship and humanity.

The beauty of handmade fonts is that it can adopt characteristics of other elements it is made from. For example, typeface that is created with thread and needle may symbolize feelings of comfort, and a domestic environment. While a typeface created with twigs and leaves, symbolize nature and organic impressions. Finally, just plain graphite or pen handwritten letters reclaims the Humanist style, and restores its missing humanity that is void from a computer generated font.

What makes a handmade typeface so unique from a computer generated font is that it is void of geometric restrictions. Straight lines and symmetry are abandoned, giving us the opportunity to break free of formulaic rules and create something truly unique.