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semaj83:

Learn Chinese with Typography

Thought this was pretty creative.

The Muslim noodle restaurant at 1:14 made me tear up unexpectedly for Ningxia.

10 March 2012 • reblog: semaj83 • China typography language

Of course. Of COURSE Chattanooga has developed its own typeface now. Awww, I miss you, you adorable cool little weirdo of a city. <3

27 January 2012 • reblog: livinginghostcolours • Chattanooga typography

This is for you, Linnea.

(Source: deniigi-studios, via namalam)

11 January 2012 • reblog: deniigi-studios • Doctor Who typography humor

littlehouseontheprisonfarm:

I love this!

(Source: cydonian-knights)

1 July 2011 • reblog: cydonian-knights • humor typography science

amyholliday:

“nested” font (by Amy Holliday)

The nest font letters together. For a typography project.

Oh, this is just so. So!
And here are the individual letters, each one so beautifully detailed: N E S T E D

5 May 2011 • reblog: amyholliday • art Amy Holliday typography

swordgirl:

—tumblr expressing our collective sentiment (look at the number of notes!).

AAAAAUGH. Yes, I want to know.

23 February 2011 • journal typography

swordgirl:

and speaking of Cthulhu, it’s about time I put this up.

story (for those who don’t know): I used to always hold up my fingers to my mouth while talking, as a gesture of delight or something, and so one night while everyone was asleep and Cricket was awake she found this picture and put it as my computer background. At first it was just the picture and then the next day while I was at class the words appeared, as if Cthulhu was actually speaking to me.

p.s. I have never admitted to tossing tiny, helpless men from great heights. That’s pure fabrication. I don’t know where Cthulhu gets these ideas.

I had forgotten! Glad you dredged this up, Linnéa. Can’t believe I used that font, though. Hardly an appropriate visual representation for the utterances of a Great Old One.

25 January 2011 • reblog: swordgirl • Fifth North Cthulhu sci-fi typography

Most type designers are understandably proud of their work. But Cobden-Sanderson, the maker of the beautiful Doves type, was so taken by it, and so keen that his former business partner shouldn’t use it after his death, that he resolved to drown every letter in the Thames. In 1916 he began loading up his bicycle under cover of darkness and throwing his font under Hammersmith bridge. He made more than 100 separate trips, a large undertaking for a man of 76. And much of it still remains in its watery grave, forming itself into such words as the tide dictates.

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True to Type (via lukescommonplacebook)

What a sad, lovely little story.

23 October 2010 • reblog: lukescommonplacebook • typography people