Sep 11
This Font Was Created By a Robot
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This typeface may not look incredibly sophisticated, but give it a chance: it was, after all, created by a robot.
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Sep 04
This font, called Phone Streak, might not be the most practical typeface in the world, but it was probably the most fun to create—because it was put together by capturing long exposures of an iPhone being swept through the air.
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Jun 25
The NSA isn’t exactly everyone’s favorite agency right now. A lot of people aren’t too pleased about what they’re doing, and they’re not afraid to tell people about it. In artist Sang Mun’s case, he decided to show it.
Mun created ZXX, which has been dubbed as an “anti-NSA” typeface that’ll make it difficult for the agency (or any other agency, for that matter) to use machines to decipher your printed correspondence with other people. The disruptive nature of the typeface makes it difficult for OCR scanners to “read” your exchanges.
While the variants of the typeface are designed to be human-readable, you still might end up giving yourself and your intended recipients a headache by using this font for your documents. I think the ZXX is more of a statement, really, but if you want to download it, you can do so here.
[via Dvice]
Mar 12
Chairs come in all shapes and sizes—but you probably never expected it would be possible to create an entire alphabet out of them. More »
Feb 27
Designer Alex Merto’s Effing Typeface is so effing unusual that I can’t help but be impressed by his creativity. His font is so overtly pervy that it’s enough to make me cringe at certain letters, but even I have to admit that he does a good job at staying within the confines of his extremely vulgar theme.
The Effing Typeface redefines the alphabet, where each letter doesn’t stand a chance against his determination to dirty them up. A isn’t so adorable now, unless that’s a baby’s bottom (which I don’t think it is.) B could be beautiful, but let’s not go to C, because that’s just plain nasty. And while most of the images are immediately recognizable there are definitely a few that I’m not too familiar with – which is probably a good thing.
Unfortunately (or is it fortunately?), it doesn’t look like the Effing Typeface is available for download or purchase online at this point.
[via TAXI via Incredible Things]
Oct 26
Last week Apple lost an appeal against a UK High Court of Justice ruling, and was told to post a public apology to Samsung. In Arial. Now it’s popped up online. More »
Oct 05
This gorgeous typographic chess set, based around the Champion font by Hoefler Frere Jones, brings elegant simplicity to the game with each piece assuming the form of its initial. It’s almost too pretty to play. More »
Sep 26
Drivers beware: new research from MIT’s Age Lab suggests that a badly chosen typeface for your dashboard can worsen distraction and increase your chance of crashing. More »
Sep 25
Adobe Edge swells to include Tools & Services, streamlines the designer web
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Adobe really wants web designers to kick things up a notch. Not satisfied with where Edge has gone so far, it just released a full-fledged Edge Tools & Services suite to cover the bases for polished desktop and mobile pages on most any modern platform. Motion tool Edge Animate (formerly Edge Preview), automated previewing tool Edge Inspect (formerly Shadow) and mobile app packager PhoneGap Build have all arrived in the suite as version 1.0 releases, and come with both Edge Web Fonts as well as TypeKit to spruce up text. A pair of pre-release utilities, Edge Code (Brackets) and Edge Reflow, are also joining the group to tackle the nitty-gritty of editing web code and layouts. Any of the apps will readily cooperate with third-party software, although they won’t always be cheap: while most of the Edge suite is free to use in at least a basic form as long as you have a Creative Cloud membership at any level, Edge Animate is only free during its initial run and should eventually cost either $15 per month or $499 in a one-time sale. For pros that want to burnish their corner of the web to a shine, the result just might be worth the expense.
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Sep 11
Believe it or not, the picture you’re looking at isn’t a miraculous string of stars that just happen to spell out the name of this humble blog. In fact, it’s an image generated from a huge database of galaxies analyzed by citizen science project Galaxy Zoo. More »
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