If you’ve ever used a computer, you know what Comic Sans is. It’s quite possibly the world’s most hated font. Internet trolls have piled on the hate for ages. But maybe it’s time to give Comic Sans a second chance. Read more »
Dyslexia is a condition that everyone knows about, but perhaps may not truly understand. Not having any personal with it, I probably do not know just how difficult having the condition, but I can just imagine! Dyslexia has been studied intensively, and programs have been tried and tested to help dyslexics deal with their situation. A Dutch graphic artist is saying, though, that you do not need to have a Doctorate in Philosophy to come up with a practical solution to dyslexia. Christian Boer has designed a new font that is supposed to help dyslexics recognize letters properly. Called Dyslexie, the font applies slight changes to certain letters in the Read more »
I just love this concept from Evil Mad Scientist: make your own drinks coasters based on various characters in a range of fonts. You can read up on the whole process, but basically the idea is to blow up fonts to large point sizes, print and then cut them out of some kind of material (MDF, cork, plywood, etc.) Read more »
If you work with fonts a lot you’ll know what a hassle it can be to find just the right one. Enter Fontplore, an interactive application built on a widget-aware table that can be used to search font databases quickly and intuitively. Read more »
We’ve seen the origami desk lamp and Starcraft origami, now here’s something for your computer desktop. Here we have origami-styled logos for Firefox, Twitter, Apple, Digg, Basecamp, Flickr, GMail, IE (broken, love it), iTunes, Mint, RSS, Opera and Skype, designed by Paddy Donnelly. They can be downloaded in a variety of formats. Jump on to see them all: Read more »
