{"id":12593,"date":"2007-12-19T13:26:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/12\/trajan-the-hack-designers-friend.html"},"modified":"2007-12-19T13:26:24","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T13:26:24","slug":"trajan_the_hack_designers_friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/19\/trajan_the_hack_designers_friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Trajan: The hack designer&#039;s friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trajan_(typeface)\">Trajan<\/a> Trajan <em>Trajan<\/em>&#8230;&#8221;&#8211;it&#8217;s the Marsha Brady of fonts, at least when it comes to movie titles &amp; posters.&#160; Kirby Ferguson rips hack designers a new one in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodiebag.tv\/episodes\/06_trajan_is_the_movie_font.htm\">this very funny video<\/a>.&#160; Mark Hamburg quips, &#8220;If we want &#8216;cinematic&#8217; UIs, then we obviously need to revise our typography&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In other typography news: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new tutorial promises to teach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowdrip.com\/2007\/12\/everything-about-text-in-photoshop\/\">everything about text in Photoshop<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionscripthero.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/digg-everything-about-typography-in-adobe-photoshop.html\">Via<\/a>]&#160; I haven&#8217;t probed &amp; can&#8217;t vouch for its quality.&#160; For more tips, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/06\/12_tips_for_photoshop_text.html\">12 Tips for Photoshop Text<\/a>, which Russell Brown demos &amp; expands upon in <a href=\"http:\/\/av.adobe.com\/russellbrown\/16TypeTipsSM.mov\">this video<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li> Jenny Beorkrem makes very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/orkposters.com\/\">typographical posters of cities<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/typeheavy_neighborhood_posters_by_ork_8224.asp\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Rob Rohan <a href=\"http:\/\/robrohan.com\/2007\/12\/14\/lookup-chinese-characters-by-character\/\">talks about<\/a> Nciku, a tool that enables you to <a href=\"http:\/\/robrohan.com\/2007\/12\/14\/lookup-chinese-characters-by-character\/\">look up Chinese characters by drawing them<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.macromedia.com\/jd\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericgill.com\/\">Eric Gill<\/a>: great typographer, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/12\/14642.html\">reeeal<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/12\/14642.html\"> sketchy dude<\/a>.&#160; I think I&#8217;m going to be raising an eyebrow at BBC posters for a while. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/12\/14642.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Jon Tan has put together the <a href=\"http:\/\/jontangerine.com\/silo\/typography\/web-fonts\/\">Web Fonts Test Suite<\/a>, useful for seeing the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Core_fonts_for_the_Web\">core Web fonts<\/a> set with varying sizes\/styles. &#160; (Baskerville sure has a pretty italic ampersand.)  <\/li>\n<li>Depending on your political leaning, you might enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/events\/causeeffect_conference_underway_today_8416.asp\">this little bit of typesetting<\/a>.&#160; (Well, you might just enjoy the clever design treatment in any case.) \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trajan Trajan Trajan&#8230;&#8221;&#8211;it&#8217;s the Marsha Brady of fonts, at least when it comes to movie titles &amp; posters.&#160; Kirby Ferguson rips hack designers a new one in this very funny video.&#160; Mark Hamburg quips, &#8220;If we want &#8216;cinematic&#8217; UIs, then we obviously need to revise our typography&#8230;&#8221; In other typography news: A new tutorial promises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}