//Friday, September 19
- 22:09
TypoType graphy Lovers
For those who is not pretty much interested in design probably you can click on the little "x" at the top right hand corner for now.. lolx. Well anyways..
I'm not sure when I started looking into typography. Apparently I thought it's just laying out texts in a contemporary way and that's it. Actually there's a whole chunk of history behind each typefaces especially Helvetica! I'm not a Helvetica person (for now) but a brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this.
30 typefaces a graphic designer must know.
Serif Fonts
Adobe Caslon Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication. Adobe Garamond Textbooks and magazines. Bembo Posters, packaging, textbooks. Bodoni Headlines, text, logos. Clarendon Dictionaries and headlines. Courier Tabular materials, technical documentation, word processing. Excelsior Newsletters, Reports, Proposals. Lucida Low resolution printing, small point sizes, reversed out half tones. Minion Limited edition books, newsletters, packaging. Perpetua For displays with fine lettering, long pages of text, chiseled text. Sabon Books and corporate communication. Stempel Schneidler For displays and fine publications that need a legible text type. Times New Roman Newspapers, magazines, corporate communication. Trajan Books, magazines, posters, billboards, anything to do with the ages or religion. Walbaum Magazines, journals, text books, corporate communication.
Sans-Serif Fonts
Akzidenz Grotesk Large Signage, all purpose for print media. Avenir For books with large amounts of text. Bell Centennial For listings and very poor printing conditions. Bell Gothic For very small amounts of text that contains large amounts of information. DIN For signage, posters and displays. Franklin Gothic Newspapers and where available space is limited. Frutiger Large signage, all purpose font for print media. Futura Large displays, small text in books. Gill Sans Signage, all purpose font for print media. Helvetica Large or small text, all purpose type figure. Meta Text, number, especially corporate communication. Myriad Large displays, all purpose media. Trade Gothic Newspapers and classified ads, advertising, multimedia. Univers Packaging, signage, text books. Vag Rounded Instruction manuals and print advertising.
What are your favourite 3 fonts? Any fonts that should or shouldn't’t be here?
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Alright, You guys be the judge and tell me whether is it irritating or not?
Here's the Scenario: When you're feeling very clam and pleased, wanted a good nap on the bus trip on your way home after a swim... Here comes a ragged guy weighing more than 200lbs, standing beside you with one hand holding a Sony Ericsson phone, playing his Mp3 loudly.
The bad distortions from its speaker just polluted your ears and its quite irritating. Excuse me, not everyone in that bus appreiate his songs. Its loud, mandrain pop, oldiest and the bad ones? You name it, he got em' all. Everyone got this WTF look in their faces. He himself simply don't care about his surroundings.
So what says you?!
Current mood: irritated
