Archive for the ‘Typography’ Category
Introducing Pixeluxe Font Family by Jan Erasmus
I have just received an email from Jan Erasmus introducing one of his latest creations, a new font family. I have shared Jan’s work, Laibela font family, before on this journal. And I’ve just realized that Jan actually first made contact with me in June of 2008, almost a year before I discussed sharing the Laibela...
Lalibela family – fonts by a South African graphic designer
I would like to share some work by fellow graphic designer, Jan Erasmus with you. Jan’s motivation for designing the Lalibela family (which is based on Bodoni) was to pay homage to Ethiopic Script. The script has been around for about 3 000 years, but he took artistic license to deviate from the original model and...
The mistaken and recommended way to outline text
Aesthetics purposes and to make text standout from its background are two of many logical reasons a designer may decide to add an outline to text. I strongly advise that applying an outline to text should only go as far as headings and nowhere near body copy, as it would be a mission to read –...
The faces behind 20 famous typefaces
Typefaces are part of our daily lives as visual communicators, we use type in logo design, web design and other ‘facets’ of graphic design. There are literally hundreds of thousands of fonts available; some free, some commissioned, some good, some bad and some over-used. Below is a collection of some of the world’s well-known typefaces and a short bio...
Book review: Logo design workbook
I’m a firm believer that education is a journey that has no destination, as there’s always something new that one can add to their already acquired knowledge or skills. A while back I shared my 10 tips to greater logo design and now I’d love to share a book titled Logo design workbook: A hands-on...
Letters are not just pretty faces, at times they can be such characters.
A while back, about 8 months or so I published a post on Forum of Black Journalists which was part of my personal project, words theater. After contemplating on the direction and future of the project, I decided to have a website solely dedicated to the project. I’m glad to announce that the website just...