Win $1000
Here’s the latest entry for our Fantastic Font Film contest…
We are still taking video submissions, so if you have the skills then send us your work and you might walk away with $1000, $500, or $250
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Helvetica vs. Arial – What’s the difference?
Arial and Helvetica – what’s the difference between the two, and why is the topic so controversial? Even the highly-regarded movie Helvetica doesn’t shed light on this ever-popular debate.
Designer and lettering artist Mark Simonson discusses and dissects the two in his own inimitable style in this article: http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
Wanna know how to spot the difference between the two and impress your family, friends, and colleagues? Then don’t miss this part: http://www.ms-studio.com/articlesarialsid.html
When you’re done reading all of the above, be sure to take this fun quiz to see if you can tell Arial from Helvetica: http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/
- John Morrison, FontGear Inc.
Graphic design nightmare
Very funny blog post captures a typical designer’s experience
This is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while -
Industry leaders from Adobe, Pixar, Extensis choose winning videos
The Fantastic Font Film Contest continues through the summer until the end of September. At the close of the contest a jury of industry professionals will award a First place winner of $1000 , Second place $500, and Third place $250 for the best font-related video submitted.
Web fonts and your web browser
With all the talk of web fonts it can be difficult to keep up with which web browsers support the various font formats now available for the web.
I recently found this helpful list of browser support on the WebFonts.info website:
Creating a new font from dance
Oregon Ballet Theatre uses ballet to create typeface.
Dancers Grace Shibley and Lucas Threefoot worked with choreographer Candace Bouchard to create all 26 letters of the alphabet with ballet moves. The dancers were fitted with LED lisght and their moves recorded and transposed into a new font.
Check it out:
Choosing the right font
Ilene Strizver of The Type Studio writes about choosing fonts on the Fonts.com website.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Decisions, decisions, decisions! One of the most challenging aspects of any design project is choosing the typefaces. There are now more than forty thousand fonts on the market and that number is growing daily, which makes the search for the “perfect” typeface only slightly more daunting than looking for that proverbial needle in a haystack…
What are your goals? Who is your audience? …Different typefaces attract different audiences, both subliminally and overtly. Children are drawn to easy-to-read, childlike fonts, such as ITC Kristen, seniors to larger settings that offer clarity and legibility, teens to edgy, expressive designs, and so on.”
Typographic Portraits
Way cool portraits using typography as a design element…
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