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August 2010

1 post

June 2010

1 post

May 2010

3 posts

April 2010

3 posts

What Type Are You? →

This also relates to my previous post. I cannot believe I haven’t posted this before. It’s pretty old now but I thought I would post it anyway. I’m sure many of you have seen Pentagram’s ‘What type are you?’ before. It’s basically a little flash applet which tells you what typeface you are based on your answers to four personality type-questions. My type...

If Fonts Were Human →

This short video is hilarious. I found it whilst doing research for my type essay, investigating relationships between typography and human personality/preference. This video, although not directly relevant (i’m more interested in the visual arrangement of letters rather than typeface design), in a weird way is probably the most useful thing I have stumbled across. Well, maybe it...

March 2010

10 posts

A useful reading list for anyone interested in... →

February 2010

14 posts

Legibility. What's the point?

“What’s the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?” Wolfgang Weingart A possible starting point for my essay? Perhaps. I find this quote resonates with me, particularly in an age when so many advertising messages are thrown at us day after day.

“Hear the word of thy Lord God: I. Thou Shalt not apply more than three...”

– The Ten Commandments of Typography/Type Heresy by Paul Felton

January 2010

6 posts

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