Sunday 29 March 2009

That website we were told to look at!

www.ilovetypography.com


''I remember clearly the day I was waiting for the 6 train at 33rd Street and Park Avenue in New York. I had taken pictures of type on the street for some time, but there was something here that caught my eye. There was a plastic sign on a door with letters and numbers routed out of plastic, and I noticed a couple of characters in particular: the way the 8 curved back into itself, the charming tail of the a. And then I realized that the lowercase e’s were all different. This had been done by hand and therefore wasn’t an existing typeface. I knew then that I could actually make this into a font.''
Even though it's been said (above quote), this is actually a really nice example of typography. It's interesting to see that even though it looks well formed and well done, the writing has actually been done by hand. If I saw this on the street, I probably wouldn't have noticed the differences between the letters.

There's this awesome game on there!! I guess if you play it enough times, you'll really get familly with the types of fonts!! It's actually really good haha!! This is the website.. http://www.deep.co.uk/games/font_game/

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