Today I would love to talk to you about fonts in general.
You all know by now, that fonts can be classified into major systems. We have serif fonts, we have grotesques or san serif fonts, we have slab fonts, we have script fonts and we have dingbats and we have something I would call fun fonts.
But all fonts have something in common, even dingbats, although they don’t come along with letters but signs.
All fonts are aligned at a kind of typographic line system. Read the rest of this entry
Ghee that was quite an interesting discussion yesterday. Enjoyed it very much.
To answer one of the questions straight ahead:
Yes you can mix fonts.
Actually you somehow want to mix fonts.
Guess everybody knows by now that we need different fonts to get our message out. The right font is part of the message and helps us to communicate with our readers. Read the rest of this entry
I recently wondered why people seem to be not so interested in my hobby fonts than in the more lighthearted subjects like “wordpress tips” or “getting to know about Helen what you didn’t dare to ask”.
Nicole Bandes came across with a suggestion that people might not know why using different fonts.
I started that series last year after talking to some friends who used to tell me that they are usually using “Standard fonts”. Standard fonts are fonts like Arial or Times for them.
My purpose for that series “Font of the Week” is to make you guys aware that there are so much more fonts than just Arial or Times or even Calibri. Typeface designers like Luke de Groot or Jan Tschichold haven’t designed the fonts just to please Melissa Barham and Helen Bogun. They are there to be used, by all of us. Read the rest of this entry
When I recently posted about the font “Fraktur” Melanie Kissel asked a question via facebook:
how in the world do you take the fonts you download and use them on your blog?? I have yet to figure that out and it’s a shame because I’ve got quite a large collection of fonts waiting in the wings.
A very good question I have to admit. Read the rest of this entry
When I recently posted about the font “Fraktur” Melanie Kissel asked a question via facebook:
how in the world do you take the fonts you download and use them on your blog?? I have yet to figure that out and it’s a shame because I’ve got quite a large collection of fonts waiting in the wings.
A very good question I have to admit. Read the rest of this entry
Did you write your Christmas cards already?
Print them with your computer?
So maybe you get a little inspired by our fonts.
My favorite customer wanted a logo.
He is principal of a Berlin school “Jean-Krämer-Schule Wittenau”.
That school is based in an old fashioned round-shaped brick building.
A few months ago we had even done a new flyer for the school using the very picture and the color of the bricks. Created a nice effect – the brick red.
After a short briefing on the logo the principal and me knew that we wanted to adapt the shape of the building which was like an arc with two side wings and the red of the building.
But not a dark brick red as we used it before. This time it should be a clear and intensive red. Read the rest of this entry