Distorted for Readability

August 5, 2008 – 9:33 am

Distored signs in a multi-story car park that you can only read when in the exact right spot.

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Type The Sky

July 29, 2007 – 5:50 pm

An alphabet made out of photographs.

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Helvetica at 50

May 10, 2007 – 8:44 am

The BBC celebrates Helvetica’s 50th anniversary.

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What Does Marsellus Wallace look like?

February 23, 2007 – 10:18 am

The Marsellus Wallace scene from Pulp fiction brilliantly re-interpreted as typographical motion graphics. (Via Daring Fireball).

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Firefox’s text rendering bug

February 6, 2007 – 11:43 pm

I know this has been beaten to death already, but I noticed this on DWBlog and the difference was absolutely striking. Firefox’s italic text rendering is appalling, especially compared to Safari on OS X:

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Get this sorted Mozilla.

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The best free fonts

January 26, 2007 – 10:16 am

Vitaly Friedman compiled a list of the best 25 free fonts available, and then he found 19 more a year later. Well worth a look.

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