Take On Fonts

Another article via Twitter, where apparently all my information and news comes from these days...

font-face and Webfonts: How to Use Them

I especially enjoy the "Good typography/bad typography" advert they've got posted.

Carry On Wayward Fonts

The other day I found some tweets of interest with links to some great blog posts about typography and web design.

7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design

This blog post has some interesting ideas about having multiple fonts in a blog or website, and gives some links to some great looking sites. I especially enjoy the look of the Carsonified website.

31 Websites Using Huge Type

This blog has links to a bunch websites using huge fonts, pretty self-explanatory. Some of them look pretty cool.

I stumbled across tumblr this weekend as well. I'm a little confused by it, even though I took a look around trying to figure it out. Somewhere on the site micro-blogging was mentioned, but then when I took a look at some of the "blogs" I found posts much longer than what I would consider to be micro-blogging. So we'll see. I'm rather intrigued by the customization available on tumblr, but I like the fact that blogger has integration with other accounts I already hold.

Stairway to Blog Heaven

A quick post for the evening with a link to another tutorial I found on Twitter about designing a blog, and there is a specific section regarding typography (section no. 6) with a bunch of resources listed. Haven't gotten to check out the resources yet, though.

9 Things You Can't Forget When Designing a Blogs

One Is Not the Loneliest Number

Keeping this blog for ART610 Graduate Typography at Towson University, one of the classes in the Interactive Media Design Post-Baccalaureate Certificate that I am currently completing. I'm not really sure yet what this blog is supposed to entail, but figured I'd at least get started with it so it's not empty like my other blog I recently created (with an aim for photo blogging, but I've been preoccupied with other things).

It's been awhile since I've really "blogged" in the traditional sense. I used to keep a personal blog for a number of years, read by local friends and fandom friends (people interested in similar television shows, movies, books, music, etc.) but Facebook took that over at first, and now following others on twitter with the micro-blogging has taken over second. It will be interesting to keep a blog about only one thing, which I've read is kind of what you're supposed to do. Not be all over the place. That will definitely be difficult for me. I love tangents.

Looking forward to learning more about typography and it's use in design this semester. I've always had a weird thing for fonts - always had my favorites, though they've drastically changed over the years. Comic sans used to be a favorite of mine and now I shudder every time I see it! Currently I'm in love with Myriad Pro and Frutiger. We'll see how long those last.

Back in high school I used to fashion my handwriting into something that reminded me of typography, and I always wanted to turn it into a font, but never knew how.