{"id":12684,"date":"2008-03-05T22:33:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T22:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/03\/recent-typographic-tastiness.html"},"modified":"2008-03-05T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T22:33:04","slug":"recent_typographic_tastiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/recent_typographic_tastiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Typographic Tastiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Uppercase Journal features a collection of great-looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppercasegallery.ca\/uppercase-journal\/2008\/1\/18\/collections.html\">vintage typewriter tins<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Flickr features a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/folktype\/pool\/\">Folk Typography Pool<\/a>,&#8221;  consisting of lettering found all over the place.&#160; I especially like the now-requisite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/petalum\/2282886802\/in\/pool-folktype\">Obama imagery<\/a>.&#160; The whole thing reminds me of how notoriously bad auto body shops&#8217; signs are&#8211;a phenomenon honored in Brian Stuparyk&#8217;s free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chank.com\/freefont_detail.php?sku=1061\">MC Auto font<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of bad:\n<ul>\n<li>What results from bad kerning? <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2008\/02\/idea_a_new_typography_term.html\">Keming<\/a><\/em>. Love it. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apostropheatrophy.com\/\">Apostrophe Atrophy<\/a> is a photographic collection of bad typography. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s gonna leave a mark: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/from_print\/wrong_font_chosen_for\">Wrong Font Chosen For Gravestone<\/a>.&#160; (At least it wasn&#8217;t Comic Sans.) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How excellently simple are these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/olay-2.html\">Oil of Olay ads<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>Design Week honors the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designweek.co.uk\/Articles\/137644\/Top+film+title+design.html\">top film title designs of 2007<\/a>.&#160; Pity that we can&#8217;t see them in motion here. <\/li>\n<li>Peep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsarepictures.co.uk\/\">Craig Ward&#8217;s<\/a> illustrative typography and typographic portraits. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2008\/02\/27\/craig-ward-illustrative-typography\/\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uppercase Journal features a collection of great-looking vintage typewriter tins. Flickr features a &#8220;Folk Typography Pool,&#8221; consisting of lettering found all over the place.&#160; I especially like the now-requisite Obama imagery.&#160; The whole thing reminds me of how notoriously bad auto body shops&#8217; signs are&#8211;a phenomenon honored in Brian Stuparyk&#8217;s free MC Auto font. [&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\/12684"}],"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=12684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}