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kleinbl00  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The fight over the Doves: A legendary typeface gets a second life

Awesome, but totally not worth $60.

Related: The League of Movable Type has been doing a weekly tutorial on font design. They're deep into it by now and I haven't been following along, but I've been reading. It's been a lot of fun.





veen  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for the link, I quite like this post on the modifying of fonts for logo purposes. For my own site I did quite the similar, even though it wasn't a conscious decision. I chose Computer Modern Unicode as a font, the font used in programs like LaTeX for scientific (specifically math and physics) writing. I quite like the formal and readability of it, and it has a professional look without being devoid of character. After modifying the outlines, I gave the v a three-dimensional effect that's wrong on purpose: the right part should be behind the left, but it's the other way around at the base. I found it fitting, putting that effect in the logo. A changing perspective, so to speak.

kleinbl00  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Escher would approve of your V.

Me? I fight the urge to use OCR-A, and there's something about MICR-13B that warms the cockles of my '80s heart.

veen  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fun Fact: Escher's from my hometown!

As someone interested in infrastructure, DIN 1451 and Transport have a special place in my heart. So damn readable.

kleinbl00  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude, no joke. I was using the hell out of Bell Gothic until the lack of italics or bold drove me to Anonymous Pro. both of those are beautiful.

mk  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm almost motivated to make a hubski-style that uses Doves or something in the neighborhood, almost no one uses 'office' anyway. It would be wonderful if the first letter in each title was illuminated.

kleinbl00  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Gotta be websafe, though, don't it? That's one reason I always used to do my eBay auctions in Papyrus. Everybody has it loaded.

mk  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We could host the files. I've almost done it for Futura, which I love. Since its not the default style, it would hardly make a difference. Maybe I'll plug away at in when I don't have enough time to do anything more constructive like markup.

kleinbl00  ·  3989 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't mind if you waste time on aesthetics, so long as you're not actively making things worse. ;-)