Tag: fonts
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, Chicago-based artist Sam Rolfes talks about his typeface/word world building series, which recalls monolithic islands, bathroom lighter tags and 3D scans of his childhood home. Rather than manipulating the kind of polychrome, malformed figure I normally obsess […]
The story of Suvir Mirchandani, the 14-year-old who discovered the federal government could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year with a simple switch of fonts on printed documents, seems too good to be true, and as it turns out, it is. As part of a middle school science fair project, Mirchandi found that […]
For the budding typeface designer in all of us, here’s Glyphr, a free HTML5 web tool for making your own fonts. Given that font design is a notoriously tedious, painstaking process, and those who know how to do it already have their tools, I’d imagine most of what comes out of this will be sub-Comic […]
