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Body Typography :)

I thought that it was tattoo, but i totally did wrong :) they call it BODY TYPE, typography in your body. wanna try? find it more at bodytype

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Helvetica Mug

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Arial versus Helvetica

Every typeface, like every one of us, has its distinguishing features. You might be forgiven for thinking that some fonts are clones, or identical twins. However, closer inspection reveals subtle differences and nuances that simply escape casual perusal. Something that can really help to heighten our sensitivity to those differences is getting out our magnifying glasses and really taking a closer look. If you’ve forgotten to bring your magnifying glass, then don’t fear for the Fontometer is here (we’ll get to that in a moment).
Today we’re going to de-robe two popular typefaces, namely Arial and Helvetica — faces that are often confused, and often the subjects of mistaken identity. But first let me re-introduce you to these two popular faces:

Helvetica
Designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger, Helvetica’s design is based on that of Akzidenz Grotesk (1896), and classified as a Grotesque or Transitional san serif face. Originally it was called Neue Haas Grotesque; in 1960 it was revised and renamed Helvetica (Latin for Switzerland “Swiss”).

Arial
Designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype (not Microsoft), it’s classified as Neo Grotesque, was originally called Sonoran San Serif, and was designed for IBM’s bitmap font laser printers. It was first supplied with Windows 3.1 (1992) and was one of the core fonts in all subsequent versions of Windows until Vista, when to all intents and purposes, it was replaced with Calibri.

I’ve read in several places that Arial is closer in appearance to Univers than Helvetica. I don’t think so. In How to Spot Arial, the type designer Mark Simonson looks at the similarities between Arial and Grotesque 215 (one of Arial’s true ancestors); and when you consider the details — for example, the flat versus angled finials (e.g. “t”) — then Arial does appear to be more closely related to Grotesque 215; however, the one thing that does stand out is the greater variation in stroke width of Grotesque 215. Arial and Helvetica share a more consistent, even stroke width. I guess it depends on whether one is looking at the form or the appearance. What do you think?
I can hear angels singing a heavenly chorus (I was tempted to include a sound track here) as I introduce to you the all new, shining, hopefully very useful Fontometer (sorry, but I couldn’t think of a better name) to compare the glyphs from Arial and Helvetica. In the grey corner (left), we have Arial; in the red corner, Helvetica. Simply drag the Arial glyph over the Helvetica version to compare (if the excitement of this is too much for you or your suffer from a heart condition, then take a short break between glyphs). The Fontometer only seems to work properly in FireFox (future versions will work for everyone):


In fact if you wish to quickly differentiate any font from from another, it’s usually best to start off looking at letters like “J”, “Q” and “g”.
What it’s wrong to do is criticize Arial as a clone or rip-off of Helvetica. It’s not. If Arial is a rip-off of Helvetica, then Helvetica is a rip-off of Akzidenz Grotesk; or we could simply say that they are both rip-offs of earlier Grotesque faces. The whole rip-off debate is a rather pointless one, I feel. Every face should be considered on its own merit. (We don’t criticise a daughter for looking like her mother.)
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Helvetica : Independent Typography Movie

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The Callygrapher Robot is Born, Kuka

If you're a callygrapher, it might be bad news. a robot programmed to pen the entire Martin Luther Bible. Why? Not sure really, but an interesting feat nonetheless. Wish I’d had one of these in High School. Thanks to the Ministry of Type for this story.

And almost finally, if you’re a fan of free and of the handwritten grunge font, then you may well be partial to Ohelo De Boi. You can download it from Dafont. Thanks to Jo of Josweb for bringing this one to my attention. I’ve already used this (sparingly, of course) for a design project. Note: you may need to get your hands dirty, and do some manual kerning — but what better way to spend your Sunday afternoon. When your husband or wife asks, “What’s for dinner?”, you can shut them up with a, “shush, can’t you see I’m kerning!”

And finally, finally, wherever you are and whatever you’re doing — kerning, gardening, playing with the kids — have a great Sunday. I really love Typography

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A Typographical Experiment ! Once more :)

Once more!!! a typographical Experiment by Colin Lee, simply inspiring!!!

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The Art of Fonts and Forms

Its not just an ordinary typograph, its handle letters and form dinamically, i subjectively love the exquisite, its beautiful.
This awesome artworks belong to an English artist and designer, If Scott. It completes all his work with the hand, which few graphic designers today can make. What is even more impressive it is than the customers come towards him for this work there, perhaps locking up it in this so particular style.




Here's another example: this photograph of its work for the PSG which I took on the Fields-Elysées.

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Font Family Quick Review

Font family consists of various configuration based on an alpahabet's regular shape, which every changes run continuously. The basic visual difference in a font family divided into 3 categories, they are : Weight, Proportion, and Oblique.

WEIGHT
the weight differences from regular structure of an alphabet determined by the comparison between its height and its stoke width. According to their weight, we may divide them into 3, they are; light, regular, and bold. For more detail you may check this illustration bellow.


PROPORTION
Different from weight, proportion determined by the comparison between font's height and widht (not the stroke's, but the font's widht). They also classified into 3 type, they are; condensed, regular, and extended.For more detail you may check this illustration bellow.


OBLIQUE
A letters printed with obliquity, is called "italic" in typography terminology. These italic letters are usually applied to give an extra stressing in certain words, including to indicate the foreign words or sentences. The recommended obliquity angle is about 12 degree.


Does this article useful for you?? If it does, please thank to Mr.Danton Sihombing, MFA, the author of "TIPOGRAFI dalam desain".

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Type of Type

I just want to define a simple classification of letter/font type. To me its important to recognize what kind of letters we need to use in graphic design. That's why typography appeared as a discipline. There are 5 kinds of letter/font according to their shape/ form.

1. Serif


Its a kind of letter with extended part in their foot-side. this part is called serif.
Example: Times New Roman, Garamond

2. Sans Serif


Sans means "no". Sans serif is a kind of letter without serif
Example: Helvetica, Arial

3. Script


Its a kind of letter similar to hand writing
Example: Lucida Handwriting, and another fonts with "script" word added behind their original name.

4. Decorative


Its a group of clip art defined as font. Quite help when we need instan art work on our design.
Example: Wingding, Webding

5. Monospace


Letters that have same width & space on each characters
Example: Monospace

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