Parody accounts on Twitter are no surprise. People frequently create them, and quite often it’s funny, at least for awhile. Twitter is fine with parody accounts, as long as they are funny and obvious. This one however wasn’t. One such case happened a few days ago after the Russian presidential election, where …
Type foundry or font foundry is a company or an individual that designs and distributes different typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers. Today’s digital type foundries accumulate and …
This article will explain the basic differences between OpenType and TrueType fonts. TrueType TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe’s Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. TrueType has become the most common format for fonts on both …
The following video, made by Vancouver film school will give you the basics of typography. Great way to quickly and visually learn what typography is. Be sure to share it with your friends!
You can learn more about different typefaces in my related article. I’ve mentioned dingbats there and provided a few examples, but here’s a table with many more characters you can copy/paste and use where you like. Enjoy! 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D …
Embedding fancy and creative fonts with websites has changed into a trend, certainly among artistically-inclined site owners. However, search engines’ inability you just read these fonts make these useless for webmasters who prioritize search engine rankings over online site aesthetics. That’s so why most successful online businesses choose to use …
Serif In typography, serifs are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface with serifs is called a serif typeface (or serifed typeface). A typeface without serifs is called sans serif or sans-serif, from the French sans, meaning “without”. Some typography sources …
One the the most common questions when it comes to typography is what is the difference between typefaces and fonts. Usually, fonts is used as a synonym to typefaces in fact and those who don’t know much about the subject often find themselves confused by the difference between the two. …