Posts Tagged ‘fonts’

Seen a font and want to know what it is? Check out What The Font.

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the letters in the image properly, and click a continue. The font has been identified you are presented with buy links, the ability to rate the font, or the option to submit the font to the site to have it matched manually. The app works best when the font is isolated from other images or background texture, but in my experience it has proven very reliable.

Check out What The Font.

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Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Alternatives to Helvetica

Fontfeed.com has a great article on Helvetica and it’s alternatives, reviewing several fonts that have a similar clean feel to Helvetiva without feeling so repetetive.

Read the full article here.

Hype For Type

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Hype for Type is, not surprisingly, a website dedicated to promoting up and coming type designers. What may be surprising to those who aren’t already visiting the site regularly is the depth of catalogue here, how easy it is to find what you want, and the reasonable prices.

Right now they have a pretty good collection of exclusive fonts and are adding more faces as well as new features (including most popular and libraries) all the time. You can search by name, kind of font, foundry or just dig in and browse.

Whether you are a font designer, searching for that new font to punch up a design, or are looking for inspiration Hype for Type has something for you.

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Check them out.

Font By Toyota

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

An amazing video on the Toyota site where a group of interactive artists used motion tracking, a car and an empty warehouse to create a new font. The car was tagged with four different color coded trackers and used an overhead camera to convert its motion into shapes. A custom piece of software then converted those shapes into a font you can download from the Toyota site.

Check it out.