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Found on flickr

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I know I'm a little off with my type loving, but i will do better.I would love some comments on my recent Fontstruct creationsBlocks:Quad:Quad Light:Old School:

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Designed by Harmann Zapf in the mid 1950's in Germany. Optima is classified as a "Sans-Serif" but it has a slight smelling near thr terminals of easch character giving it a slight serif feel. The italic form is more an oblique then an italic. The capital letters seem based on traditional Roman models, just like many serif faces.McCain’s Optimum LookCan a typeface truly represent a presidential

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online font creation tool. fun to play with.seems online design creation is the new thing. Photoshop express

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Archer, The colorful Slab SerifSweet but not saccharine, earnest but not grave, Archer is designed to hit just the right notes of forthrightness, credibility, and charm.Just kinda looking around typography.com and saw their new face archer. It was designed for Marth Stewart Living. Since for a magazine, they had many design problems to face, like body copy, headlines, small caps, lists, charts,

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I haven't had much time to update lately with work and freelancing.i promise more updates are coming soon.~Adam

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The mets family features a serif and a sans serif, officially called ff meta sans and ff meta serif. The sans was designed by Spiekerman in the 90's. Meta is a very popular and well known sans serif face, small intricate make it a very interesting face.After much love for the sans, he attempted the serif.3 years and help from Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby he accomplished the goal of a

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(ok i know your saying "stencil?"... just read it)Stencil was designed in 1937 by Gerry Powell. He succeeded in imitating the spray painted on to a big wooden crate type. There are capital only.StencilSerif: flat rounded serif.usage: military army spray painty stuff?Characteristics: Rounded edges, thick main strokes, and PYLONS...Pylon: The area of a stencil font which (a) adds structural

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René Albert Chalet is the typographic (and fashion) genius behind hit self titled typeface. House Industries (foundry who released chalet) considers him "he most underappreciated yet arguably greatest typeface designers in history."Although he never fully received the recognition he deserved, René Chalet was better known in fashion circles for his contributions to developing the prêt-à-porter

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Typographical character used to refer to a particular section of a document. it is often used along with a pilcrow ¶ . §§ reads as "sections"The sign came from a double stroked S. Scribes often double stroked a letter in place of the more modern bold weighted characters.usages:If the asterisk and daggers have been used, the § can be used in footnotes.Type specimen in animals.mac osx alt+6win alt

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Frere-jones designed Interstane from 1993-4. He used the familiarity of the highway signs to create a very legible sans serif. This family includes 40 fonts in 3 widths and 7 weights.InterstateSerif: sansClassifications: neo-grotesque.Characteristics: terminals of the ascenders and descenders are cut at a 45 degree angle, open counters, curved strokes have a terminal at 45 from the baseline.Usage

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The dagger, or obelus or obelos (greek for Roasting split), or obelisk. A varient of the dagger is the double dagger ‡ , is also called a diesis or Cross of Lorraine.The dagger was first used in books for the Roman Catholic Church as a marker for a minor pause in a psalm, the major pauses was parked by an asterisk.More recently, the Dagger is used to indicate a footnote. a superscript number can

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Peter Biľak was Born in the Czech republic, went to school in England, the US and France, and ended up in the netherlands. He does work in type, editorial, graphic and web design. He also is a teacher at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Biľak started Typotheque in 1999.Fedra was commissioned by Paris-based Ruedi Baur Integral Design and developed as a corporate font for Bayerische Rück, a German

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Didot is named for a French Printing family. Firmin Didot, did much of the design and type casting. Pierre Didot did the printing. The Didotd were inspored by the experimental work of John Baskerville. There are many DIdot revivals. Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Adrian Frutiger each did a revival based on Firmins work. François Rappo designed a revival based on Pierre.Didotserif: thin

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aka interrogation point, question point, query, or eroteme.The question marks is used as a replacement for a period in a interrogative sentence. The symbol is generally thought to originate from the Latin quaestio, meaning "question," which was abbreviated to Qo. The uppercase Q was written above the lowercase o, and this mark was transformed into the current symbol.Spanish questions are start

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Lucida is an extended family of typefaces designed by the team of Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1985. There are many variations in the Lucida family.Bigelow ans Holmes worked with a vendor to create a full set of mathematical symbols. These symbols help make Lucida one of the most complete type families. LucidaSerif, Sans serif... blackletter, caligraphy, handwriting, Fax, Bright, Sans

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The Asterisk is a star like typographic symbol. The name asterisk comes from the latin work for star, astrum. The Asterisk was created during the middle ages by printers of family trees. It was used to indicate a date of birth. the original shape of the asterisk was 6 teardrop shaped arms coming from the center. In some computer circles, the asterisk is called a splat, because of the shape it

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(ok so the punctuation series is really just a bunch of typographic symbols)The pilcrow is a common typographic symbol used to denote paragraphs.The pilcrow was used in the Middle Ages to mark a new train of thought, before the convention of physically discrete paragraphs was commonplace.¶The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the name originated as pylcraft, a corrupted form of "paragraph."

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Working in web design, I was introduced to the pixel font Unibody a few months ago as legal copy on a banner ad. My creative director recommended Underware's Unibody 8.Unibody 8 was designed to work with screen pixels to create a clear and readable small typeface on the screen. This font needs no anti-aliasing (blurring around the pixels to create a smooth look). The Unibody family has 5 members.

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Trajan's Column is a Roman monument in Honor of Emperor Trajan and constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus. The column is well known for its spiral bas relief depicting Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It is located just north of the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy.The base of Trajans column featured Classic Roman Letterforms. it is believed that these letters were first painted on,

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The exclamation point was Introduced in the 1400s as the "mark of admirition". The mark is based on the latin work "lo" which means joy. Before it was featured on the typewritter, ! was formed by typing a "." followed by a backspace, then an apostrphe. it evolved into the perion and line we know and love today.

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One of Zuzanas favorite typefaces is Bodoni. she was attracted to its clean lines and geometric shapes. However, she felt that Bodoni at a small size was tough to read. Filosofia is Zuzanas interpretation of Bodoni's work. She incorporated features such as a bulging round serif. She also reduced the stroke contrast in the regular weight (to combate the "dazzling" found in digital versions of

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Giambattista Bondoni was a highly skilled Italian engraver, printer and typographer. His technical abilities helped him create the thin hairline serifs on the family of fonts named after him.Bodoni studied the types of John Baskerville, He paid particular attention to the contrast of Baskervilles letters. Baskervilles type was said to make one blind because of its high contrast of letters, Bodoni

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Xavier Dupré began sketching Vista while on vacation in Sumatra. He noticed many of the hand made signs with interesting decorative letters, slab serifs and triangular serifs. His plan was to create a semi serif typeface based on this characteristics.Dupré had difficulties early on and stopped the creation of this typeface. After 2 years he revisited his sketches and removed the Serifs,

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This exact history of the at sign is unknown. I like this one: its the evolution of the french "à" which was used in the marketplaces "crepes à 2 francs" The bottom right of the a connected with a elongated accent.The @ has many uses, most common being email. use it to replace the word "at" while writing in shorthand.@ is not traditional or standard typography.

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