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Trying out Typekit

Peter Čuhalev — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:38:36 +0000

If you are reading this and it does not look like some hand written script typeface, you are either using a RSS reader (click on header to go to the blog post to get the real rendering) or you are using an old browser that does not support CSS3 yet in this case try opening the post in Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4.

Happy Birthday Guinness!

Yesterday Guinness celebrated 250 years, I think this should be mentioned in the blog post and made into an everlasting post.

And a Cheers to many more years of good beer making.

As you can see all the text is rendered with the two specific fonts that I included through Typekit.

The typefaces are: Learning Curve as the hand scripted one and Droid Serif as the second serif one, which also has different styles included.

For more on the typefaces from Typekit click on the bottom right icon and they also have more info about other regarding things. Only bad side at least for the Trial version is that it does not include č,ž,š characters.

P.S. I have some invites left if anyone wants to try it, leave a comment or mail or tweet…

The Ikea Catalog Type in the Future

Peter Čuhalev — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:17:13 +0000

I think we all share a surprise at the new Ikea catalog and how can Ikea say that only the non designers will notice changes. I believe that everybody notices bad typography it is just that us as designers distinguish it and feel a deeper impact by bad visual data. Normal people are too used to it and filter it out, but we get that feeling in the back of the head every time we go by and see it. I’m just hoping that Ikea will not actually go down this path…
Click on the picture for a bigger one on Flickr.

So razlike med Akzidenz Grotesk & Helvetica & Helvetica Neue?

Peter Čuhalev — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:01:45 +0000

Seveda so in še veliko jih je. Na hitro je Akzidenz Grotesk bila inspiracija za nastanek Helvetice nato pa so posodobili Helvetico z različico Helvetica Neue. Manjše višine srednjega črkovnega pasu, zaključki, ki niso pod kotom, manjša ali večja zaobljenost in glajenje potez so stvari, ki so jih spreminjali.

Za kaj več pa si preberite seminarsko, ki sva jo napisala skupaj s Felixom Osino: Razlike v oblikovanju Akzidenz Grotesk & Helvetica & Helvetica Neue (PDF)

Times and Arial. The only things we are allowed to make.

Peter Čuhalev — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:20:27 +0000

We had our first Typography practice lessons today. A good enough reason to be really frustrated. They totally f*cked everything up. The last ounce of creativity that could be there was stripped away by 50 or more examples of what we must NOT make. No type that is too square, none that is too high, the ascending line between A must not be too low, it should not be bold. Then she said ok we will be doing CLASSIC either TIMES or ARIAL linear, like even if you wanted to do something different you can’t. Fcuk like the only lessons that I thought would be good this semester and they killed even those. Thanks university for killing the creativity in me.

Kakovost pisave Webdings

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:11:51 +0000

Višek tedna, ko sem moral napisati seminarsko za predmet Kakovost na faksu. Porabljen čas od okoli 9.00 do 13.00. Ker sem bil napisan za predstavitev, ki je na koncu bila prestavljena za 14dni, ker je zmanjkalo časa. Eh ja, bom vsaj predstavitev naredil še do naslednjič, ki je tak noben ne bo znal prebrati.

Sam pdf, če dejansko misliš prebrati lahko preneseš tu.