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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Check how different fonts look on any website

Graphic Designers and Manufacturers of fonts have always been in front of a big Milestone. Some want to enjoy their layout with different Web Fonts to try before they purchase something, and others want to give anything away. From this week there is a way that solves it for the first time, at least for the web designers and It is the FontFonter Service.

Try Web Fonts before you buy them on any website by www.fontfonter.com.

Soccer & Typography

Even this headline will deter most of my gentle readers, but now there are two times of my passions, and I could combine them in the form of Free-Fonts, you may want to read further!

Rudy wants only one thing - to feel the nice numbers.

Maybe it's one or the other similar to mine: the passion for tracing the letters began. For me it was from the fifth grade, especially band names on school supplies and everything else painted. Later, the Football was interesting, as it was in the nineties, almost every team wear T-shirts with the same jersey numbers, you could universally use internalized set of numbers to make the job; The midfielder has been with the 10 great credit, mocked the friend with the 0.

Eventually, however, fell on the backs of the players, the Monopoly Font, and what else makes for a pleasant variety, was rapidly result in disaster (and still is today). Regardless of the meaning and readability, and is trying to lack of originality of an association with a possible fail - to balance writing - mostly completely ludicrous-illegible.

The old numbers disappeared and are now characteristic for a particular sports era that lasted from the mid-eighties to mid nineties and culminated in the World Cup 1990th.

Andi Brehme lays his way to the decisive penalty in the World Cup final 1990th

What surprised me the most was that the old numbers were never actually raise a font. When once asked in a forum, then, is always referred to the usual suspects cornered, but a faithful digital representation could not be found - until I took attention of that!

So I have pictures of the Ancient Scriptures and looked at the forms that gave it the form of this principle, the most striking traced for me. Including the Basel-seven, of course!

I have remained faithful to the rigid structure, have kept the most common forms of standard and a couple of alternatives included. Thus, the Basel-seven landed on "/" and the one without a walk on ",". If you prefer a semantically correct, but can also try the OpenType Stylistic Sets.

Here is the complete character set :

The figures on the Libero fonts. The alternate characters are hidden in Stylistic Sets 1-4.

Even if the font is for jerseys, Font-Face with the help of the generator of @Fontsquirrel created a web font kit. And we can use it to write a football blog and orderly placement or date, I point, binding and indent with reingepackt.

The football nostalgia goes to the heart at the sight of the numbers associated with famous names.

The result is the "Libero" (Because at that time was the standard and today is extinct just like the numbers). Show me what you do with it!

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

New Currency Symbol of Turkish Lira

On 1 March, Turkish Central Bank has presented the new Currency Symbol for the Turkish Lira to the public, replacing the previous spelling "TL".
The character grew out of an open competition, which drew thousands of Turks. The race finally made the draft 33-year-old Tu-lay Tulip: a stylized L, aware of its rounded shape is reminiscent of an anchor. The double horizontal lines represent the T and also make the character instantly recognizable as a Currency Symbol.

Some critics, however, earned the draft because he is like with this design, the Currency Symbol of the neighboring country of Armenia, if you put this on its head.
As with the €-sign there is an official engineered variant (pictured above), but which is certainly adapted to the particular font in different Font Style.

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Ten Commandments of Typography




The critical thinker and a great typographer Kurt Weidemann will never be forgotten. However, the AGD (Alliance of German Designers) an honorary member would also like for anyone who liked him, admired and provide a visible presence miss. AGD board member Andreas Maxbauer has designed from the Ten Commandments to the handwritten typography two posters. To print, hang on the wall - in memory of Kurt Weidemann: http://www.agd.de/929.html

The Development of Font Sizes

In the past we have often mentioned in articles and forums on development contributions and differences of the major font formats. How TrueType and OpenType difference really? How to play the new and old web font formats in here?

The following information shows the evolution of the major outline font formats in a concise manner. As an accompanying article in this blog post is recommended.


The graphics can be used in full resolution (2000 × 2000 pixels) can be viewed and downloaded at fonts.info: http://www.fonts.info/pub/download/fontformats.png
The image can be used under the Creative Commons License CC BY-ND 3.0.

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