Typography

The day of typographical entries may never end, but I really like this site on writing systems. It includes both Klingon and Romulan. Good stuff.

The perils of finding a good typography blog is an entire morning spent on reading cool articles like the one I just found on the erotics of type (original). Might be one of those days. (Not worksafe.)

Every now and then I find one of those tasty indie fontdesigner sites and wind up spending half an hour downloading a bunch of free fonts and yeah. “This font was started with the idea, “Make that cool ‘m’ that you see in magazines sometimes. Make a whole font out of it!!” So I did, and it was drab. Meanwhile, a new idea is creeping around. “Make it 2 lines thick, you love to make fonts like that!” So I did. Then, it was not so drab. I named this baby Supreme, because sometimes when you throw spectacular names on so-so fonts, people get all raged up to download them. But this font is not so-so, it is the most. You couple that with the name, and geez, you know what I’m talking about!!” ...