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Avería – The Average Font
october 2011 by rtlechow
"I am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer. The field of typography has long fascinated me, and I love playing with creative programming ideas, so it was perhaps inevitable that the idea came to me one day of “generative typography”. A Google on the subject brought up little, and I put the idea to the back of my mind until it occurred to me that perhaps the process of averaging, or interpolating, existing fonts might bring up interesting results."
algorithms
typography
google
ai
software
programming
type
design
october 2011 by rtlechow
The Solid Bore of Language ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto
january 2010 by rtlechow
Alphaprosodic means it represents the prosody of speech; semiprosodic means it represents the prosody of meaning. So a carriage return in a poem means “stop talking for a moment,” while in a grocery list it means “new item.” And here we had a lot of people thinking it only meant “send what I just wrote in my chat program.”
chinese
quotes
typography
writing
language
linguistics
january 2010 by rtlechow
The League of Moveable Type
december 2009 by rtlechow
"We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts."
type
typography
fonts
free
opensource
design
font
resources
december 2009 by rtlechow
A List Apart: Articles: On Web Typography
november 2009 by rtlechow
"We’ve been so accustomed to using system fonts that many web professionals balk at the idea of paying for fonts. But even when you use the typefaces that come with your computer, you’re using typefaces that you’ve paid to license—those costs are included in the price of your operating system. There are many free fonts out there, but most of them are free for a reason: They’re often fine at display sizes, but kerning and hinting might not be up to snuff and many aren’t complete or robust enough to be used in a serious way. Solid typefaces, like almost anything else of quality, usually cost money."
typography
fonts
design
css
alistapart
web
november 2009 by rtlechow
ETAOIN SHRDLU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
november 2009 by rtlechow
ETAOIN SHRDLU is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most commonly used letters in the English language, best known as a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing due to a custom of Linotype machine operators.
language
typography
words
english
reference
wikipedia
fonts
statistics
november 2009 by rtlechow
Typocalypse - a set on Flickr
october 2009 by rtlechow
"subliminal messages these fonts are feeding you"
typography
design
fonts
flickr
humor
funny
font
type
october 2009 by rtlechow
Helveticons
september 2009 by rtlechow
Royalty-free vector icons, glyphs and symbols based on the Helvetica Bold typeface
icons
typography
design
helvetica
inspiration
webdesign
vector
fonts
icon
september 2009 by rtlechow
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