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Under Consideration, a top blog focusing on logo redesigns, has realeased it’s list of the top 12 best and worst new identities of 2009. Each entry shows the new marks juxtaposed with the old with comments by both the author of the blog and readers. A great recap of new logos as well as some good cautionary tales for logo designers.
The best and worst identities of 2009
Smashing Magazine has a great new article on options for typography on the web. It covers javascript image replacement, Flash image replacement and the use of actual fonts on the web through new services like Typekit.
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.
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.
We are using sIFR on a few of our sites, and people seem to be asking about it a lot recently. A short description and links below.
sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of JavaScript, CSS, and Flash, which renders the font. It degrades gracefully if Flash is not present.