It’s nearly impossible to use Comic Sans on the Internet and not get tarred and feathered. It’s an Internet sin of the highest level. A crime against human decency and people’s eyeballs. A parody of a joke of a fool. Universally hated. So… is it possible to defend the font? Is Comic Sans wrongfully reviled? Maybe! More »
If you’ve ever tried to glance at your computer screen and read something from across the room, you know it’s a pretty futile effort, no matter how hard you squint. This demo website has a solution: dynamically changing font size based on your distance from the screen. The catch? It wants to watch you read. More »
There are plenty of reasons why you might want to add text to images. Since people are using their smartphones as their point-and-shoot cameras these days, it makes sense to have a way to add typography to the snapshots you take with your phone too.
Potluck’s Over app superimposes text in many colors and fonts to your photos. If you take beautiful photos, and wanted to add some beautiful text, getting the right app to do the job is important. Over will allow you to easily add extra meaning to all of those pics you take, and then quickly post them to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr or share them via Email.
Over is currently available from the iTunes App Store for just $0.99(USD) – a discount from its normal price of $1.99. I look forward to reading your witty remarks in my Instagram feed.
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FontBook, the veritable bible for typography addicts and design nerds everywhere, recently updated its iOS app to support the iPhone. You’ll never be caught without an encyclopedic knowledge of typography ever again. More »
Penguin publishing just rereleased five of George Orwell’s best works—1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, and Politics and the English Language—as “Great Orwell” editions. More »
It’s generally not a good thing to be biased. Sure, you can have your opinions, you can even cling to them strongly, but if they start actually altering your perception of reality, things can get messy. Lucky for you, hard-to-read fonts are here to the rescue, and might be able to save you from opinionated ranting. More »
There are all kinds of fonts out there, but they pretty much all have one thing in common: they’re rigid. Typode, on the other hand, has its characters defined by coordinate so they can skew, stretch, twist, and do all kinds of neat-looking, hard-to-read tricks. More »
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 »
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