Adventures in FontStruction

After a few night’s decent sleep, I am now fully recovered from l’affaire autosave. Let us never speak of it again. Time to jump back in the blogfire with both feet. This time the topic is something that’s just pure fun. It’s my new favorite site/application/addiction, and it’s called FontStruct.

The Non-Designer’s Design Checklist

About a dozen years ago, as I embarked upon my journey into the realm of publishing, I bought a book called The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams. I’m pretty sure it was recommended to me by the guy who taught my first Quark XPress class. I remember thinking it was a fine and fun [...]

Font Bits

A few font bits for your your lunchtimesuck:
Are you into fonts? I mean, are you really into fonts? Do you assign them personalities based on your experiences with them? Then check out Extensis’ amusingly creepy (or is it creepily amusing?) Typecaster videos that cast real people acting like fonts mixing in a singles bar.
I myself [...]