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The Evolution of the Font

Moscow British Higher School of Art and Design students’ course work  - Typography research / Masha Minina, Dasha Bazan, Andrey Vasiliev, Sema Kirilin.    

Fonts In Use

Fonts In Use shows you how various fonts are used. Super useful resource. Search by industry, formats and typefaces.

Garamond typeface 450th anniversary

Created in 1461 by Claude Garamont it comes through the ages and still fits the modern life of typography and design. From http://designcollector.net/garamond-450/

Thinking with type

Here is great resource for you to learn about type http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/

Typo/graphic Posters

http://www.typographicposters.com/  - directory of typographic and graphic posters          

Fonts for Credits

Here are few fonts for your poster’s credits. Choose the one you like. I would recommend using SteelTongs – it has categories as glyphs. SteelTongs Empire Univers LT Std Thin Ultra   SteelTongs     Empire   Univers  

Font Games

Can you tell Helvetica from Arial? Cheese from font? Test you typographic knowledge with these games.   Cheese or Font Arial vs Helvetica Which Font?     Good luck!      

About Sketching

Some people are afraid of showing their drawing to others. They think they’ll be ridiculed if their sketch looks like it was drawn by a five-year old. In truth, it doesn’t matter if you are good at sketching. The less formal the sketch, the better. In fact, avoid the urge to use a pencil as […]

Choose the right font

A graphic guide to choosing the right font. Click on the picture to see a bigger version.  

Type Anatomy

Here is a collection of type anatomy pictures for you to learn. Click on each picture to see bigger version.      

Liquid Type

Beautiful experiments with liquid type by Ruslan Khasanov on Behance.

Visual Examples

I am compiling interesting posters collections on Pinboard for you to get inspired. Typographic Movie Poster Collection Typographic Poster Collection Click on each picture to get to the original resource.   Also feel free to use Pinboard to create moodboards and collect interesting visuals. But remember that you will have to print your research for the […]