{"id":11158,"date":"2006-07-17T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T11:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/07\/the-joy-of-text.html"},"modified":"2006-07-17T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T11:36:48","slug":"the_joy_of_text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/the_joy_of_text\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being kind of textually fixated these days, I thought I&#8217;d share some good type-related resources I&#8217;ve encountered lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russell Brown has <a href=\"http:\/\/av.adobe.com\/russellbrown\/16TypeTipsSM.mov\">created a video<\/a> that demonstrates the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/06\/12_tips_for_photoshop_text.html\">12 Photoshop text tips<\/a> I posted earlier (plus four more).\n<li>Veerle shows off how to create some <a href=\"http:\/\/veerle.duoh.com\/index.php\/blog\/comments\/illustrator_art_brushes\/\" \/>handsome lettering effects<\/a> using Illustrator art brushes &amp; the dark, mysterious Appearance palette.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/playplayplayplay.com\/\" \/>The Playground<\/a> showcases various artists creating complete, downloadable letter sets using everything from banana peels to world leaders to&#8230; well, you&#8217;ll see. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>Erik Spiekermann, author (among many other things) of the classic handbook <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0672485435\/103-6500147-6665434?v=glance&amp;n=283155\">Stop Stealing Sheep<\/a><\/i>, gives PingMag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pingmag.jp\/2005\/10\/31\/erik-spiekermann-typography-and-design-today\/\" \/>an interesting interview<\/a>, covering everything from the creation of corporate typefaces to the development of a new screen font for Nokia.  Erik has also started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiekermann.com\/iblog\/index.html\">his own blog<\/a>.\n<li>Design Melt Down surveys cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designmeltdown.com\/chapters\/Typography\/Part2.aspx\">typography on the Web<\/a>, while IHT charts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/09\/features\/dlede10.php\">creation and rise of Georgia<\/a>.\n<li>CreativePro.com offers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/24318.html?cprose=daily\">a variety of tips<\/a> for finding &amp; previewing fonts online, converting fonts to OpenType, previewing Web fonts, and more.\n<li>Emigre&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/typetease.emigre.com\/cgi-bin\/fontRender\">Typetease<\/a> lets you set whatever characters you&#8217;d like using their online catalog&#8211;everything from the chunky <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emigre.com\/EF.php?fid=83\">O Brother, Where Art Thou<\/a><\/i> face to the piratical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emigre.com\/EF.php?fid=118\">Sabbath Black<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chank.com\/\" \/>Chank Diesel<\/a> makes all kinds of good fonts, including numerous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chank.com\/freefonts.php\">cool free ones<\/a>.  (<b><i>Dig<\/i><\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chank.com\/freefont_detail.php?sku=1095\">Newcastle<\/a>!)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exactlocation.org\/dairy\/\" \/>DAIRY<\/a> is a font of sorts&#8211;just one that spells out your text using milk crates.\n<li>Is there really a Cyrillic &#8220;\u0416&#8221; in the Declaration of Independence?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artlebedev.com\/mandership\/113\/\" \/>Apparently so.<\/a>  (Why doesn&#8217;t English a character half so badass?)\n<li>In <i>For All Seasons<\/i>, Andreas M\u00fcller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k10k.net\/frames.aspx?section=issue&amp;id=133\">sets type in beautiful motion<\/a>.  (Don&#8217;t let the need to download the file put you off; the full-screen effect works nicely.)\n<li>House Industries makes a font comprised of trendy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseind.com\/index.php?page=showfont&amp;id=4&amp;subpage=viewsilhouettes\">silhouettes<\/a>.  (See also silhouettes from <a href=\"http:\/\/youworkforthem.com\/product.php?sku=E0160\">Tech Vector<\/a>.)\n<li>[Updates: Colin Smith demonstrates how to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/howto\/24491.html?cprose=daily\">Superman-ly text<\/a> in Photoshop, and Todd Dominey points out the very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optimo.ch\/pages\/departement\/view_font.php?id_categorie=2&amp;id_font=1&amp;id_font_type=5\">Cargo stencil font<\/a>.]\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being kind of textually fixated these days, I thought I&#8217;d share some good type-related resources I&#8217;ve encountered lately: Russell Brown has created a video that demonstrates the 12 Photoshop text tips I posted earlier (plus four more). Veerle shows off how to create some handsome lettering effects using Illustrator art brushes &amp; the dark, mysterious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}