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Can you make it look… even worse?

Can you make it look… even worse?

It’s an unusual design brief – to make the product as unappealing as possible. But that’s exactly what proposed designs for cigarette packaging in Australia hope to achieve, using a grim combination of photography, graphic design and type…... 

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20 Creative Typography Designs Inspiration

20 Creative Typography Designs Inspiration

Typography is the art and technique ofarranging type. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between... 

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In Praise of Vintage Typefaces: 15 You Have Never Seen

In Praise of Vintage Typefaces: 15 You Have Never Seen

Type is a tool of communication and an art of commerce. The fact that it is at once functionally enduring and aesthetically sublime is what has made type such a popular object of connoisseurship among those both in and out of the graphic design fields.... 

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The design of a signage typeface

The design of a signage typeface

The story begins in 2006 with a trip down Route 66. Day in, day out, I looked at U.S The story begins in 2006 with a trip down Route 66. Day in, day out, I looked at U.S. traffic signs that were either set in the old, somewhat clumsy “FHWA font series”... 

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Designing type systems

Designing type systems

Peter Biľak I remember a conversation from back in my student days where my typophile friends and I debated what the ultimate typeface of the twentieth century was, a typeface that summed up all of the era’s advancements and knowledge into a coherent... 

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Runa Gonna Get You Going

Runa Gonna Get You Going

Established in 2009, Runa is a small Brooklyn, NY-based company with an additional staff of 30 employees in Ecuador where they work with over 600 farmers who grow and harvest guayasa (pronounced gwhy-you-sa ), a native Amazonian tree leaf that contains... 

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Are you a typoholic?

Are you a typoholic?

Just published by Vicitonary , Typoholic is the latest tome to celebrate modern typography at its most playful… Typoholic features a plethora of type projects and includes illustrated, sculptural, inflatable and photographically created letterforms... 

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The Capital Sharp S of the German Government

The Capital Sharp S of the German Government

Next week, it will be exactly four years since the Capital Sharp S was added to the Unicode specification. Within that rather short period of time, it … has been added to over 170 new type families included in the main typefaces of the world’s most... 

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Type Connection – A dating website for fonts

Type Connection – A dating website for fonts

Aura Seltzer’s master thesis project Type Connection is all about pairing typefaces. Simply choose one font to start with and decide what kind of match you are looking for Aura Seltzer’s master thesis project Type Connection is all about pairing... 

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Learning to Love Type with a New PBS Mini-Documentary

Learning to Love Type with a New PBS Mini-Documentary

Fonts are great. We look at and use them all the time, from the words on this blog post to the credit receipts we sign to the cookie boxes we buy Fonts are great. We look at and use them all the time, from the words on this blog post to the credit... 

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