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.
Myriad is what Apple uses. Frutiger is also awesome.
ReplyDeleteI love Helvetica Neue and Bodoni. They are my go-to's.
I found this interesting site-- www.fonstruct.com, you can create your own fonts and download them to your computer..maybe you could test that out and create a font based on your handwriting!!
ReplyDeleteI always had the worst handwriting and I would try to copy fonts instead.
ReplyDeleteSam, great site. thanks for sharing.