{"id":12470,"date":"2007-08-31T08:52:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T08:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/08\/superheroic-typography.html"},"modified":"2007-08-31T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T08:52:39","slug":"superheroic_typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/superheroic_typography\/","title":{"rendered":"Superheroic typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sampottsinc.com\/portfolio.html\">Sam Potts sets cool type<\/a> (&#8220;All projects 100% Times Roman-free,&#8221; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sampottsinc.com\/motto.html\">promises<\/a>).&#160; Check out his designs for pal John Hodgman&#8217;s <em>The Areas of My Expertise<\/em>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superherosupplies.com\/\">Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co<\/a>.; and more.&#160; Sam was kind enough to let me pick his brain at his studio in NY last week.&#160; While we were talking, a shipment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmund.com\/gmund_neu\/start.php\">Gmund paper<\/a> (made in Germany from recycled beer bottle labels) arrived.  &#8220;I&#8217;ll sleep with this paper,&#8221; he said, &#8220;<em>if it&#8217;ll have me&#8230;<\/em>&#8221; [Via Maria Brenny] <\/li>\n<li>Giant typography as high school prank: The students of Davidson punk rivals Darby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M7Y_AkT7PEM\">via sabotaged flip cards<\/a>. The stunt echoes the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Rose_Bowl_Hoax\">Great Rose Bowl Hoax<\/a> of 1961.<\/li>\n<li>Take care when you rotate  type, or you might end up with something like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeffcarlson\/127632129\/\">WTF Mac Store<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\">Via<\/a>].&#160; Elsewhere in the <em>Dept. of Signs Begging to be Misread<\/em>, my wife remembers two signs in stairwell in Seattle right next to one another: one for &#8220;Gary&#8217;s Den&#8221; (the words stacked) and the other for &#8220;Rage&#8221; (some sort of boutique). With no distinction in background color it read as &#8220;Gary&#8217;s Rage Den&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;<em><u>Every<\/u> <u>single<\/u> <u>time<\/u> <\/em>I stood in line at the Neptune,&#8221; she says, &#8220;I replayed the same line of questioning in my head about angry, angry Gary and his need for a Rage Den.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A bit of historical fun: the <em>NYT<\/em> features an image of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytstore.com\/ViewLargeImage.aspx?id=NSAP213&amp;frame=1&amp;NAME=Women's%20Union%20Float%20-%201909\">Women&#8217;s Typographical Union<\/a> aboard a float in 1908.<\/li>\n<li>FontShop&#8217;s magazine devoted to all things typographic has a new issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\/features\/fontmag\/006\/\">Font 006<\/a>, cruising through the snail mail system.&#160; Previous issues are online on the site. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/news\/25809.html?cprose=daily\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Steve Patterson has produced a nice, approachable tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/photoshop-text\/text-effects\/wrap-text-3d\/\">creating faux 3D text in Photoshop<\/a>.&#160; The cheese factor is refreshingly low. <\/li>\n<li>Typographica list their <a href=\"http:\/\/typographica.org\/001103.php\">Favorite Fonts of 2006<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoshopsupport.com\/photoshop-blog\/07\/08\/waterfront-28.html\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Potts sets cool type (&#8220;All projects 100% Times Roman-free,&#8221; he promises).&#160; Check out his designs for pal John Hodgman&#8217;s The Areas of My Expertise; the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.; and more.&#160; Sam was kind enough to let me pick his brain at his studio in NY last week.&#160; While we were talking, a shipment [&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":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470"}],"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=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}