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Block Type

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A really cool set of letters from Marc Böttler.

He uses perspective and depth to turn these rectangular wooden blocks into letters. Check out the K a little closer to see what I mean. (The left half of the letter goes from the ground up while the right side sits entirely on the ground).

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October 28th, 2011 at 2:43 pm

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Wireframe Letters

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I’m sometimes amazed at the interesting stuff that Urban Outfitters has. I usually find the really cool stuff to be way out of my price range, but these wireframe letters at $10 each are great, unless you have a really long name.

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July 9th, 2010 at 1:21 pm

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Type Efficiency

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As a great follow up to my previous post, Matt Robinson recently took to drawing on walls to display the ink efficiency of various fonts. After drawing them large scale on a wall, the ink left over in the ball point pens shows how efficient the font are. In an ironic twist, the fonts which were most ink efficient, are lease energy efficient on a computer screen, as the more white the more energy required to light up the screen.

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January 18th, 2010 at 8:49 pm

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Common Fonts Across Different OS

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I am looking to embark on a slight redesign of my resumé, a tweaking shall we say. I want to design in a way so that it will come across consistently when viewed on different machines. One of the worst errors to make is using a font that doesn’t come through on other’s machines, followed only slightly behind by using Comic Sans. A quick Google search reveals the 18 “browser-safe fonts”. But don’t forget to read the notes at the bottom! The site also has screen shots from different OS and browsers. Now I just have to decide which one(s) to use!

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January 14th, 2010 at 5:17 pm

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Cool Typefaces

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Andrew Byrom has created some cool typefaces, most not intended to be used in word processors, or even computers for that matter.

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July 21st, 2009 at 5:44 pm

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