{"id":12734,"date":"2008-04-23T00:17:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/beards-big-bs-and-other-type-bits.html"},"modified":"2008-04-23T00:17:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:17:04","slug":"beards_big_bs_and_other_type_bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/beards_big_bs_and_other_type_bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Beards, Big B&#039;s, and other type bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Build fonts right in your browser via the very cool <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/\">FontStruct<\/a>. [Via Chris Kantarjiev] <\/li>\n<li>My friend Bryan sometimes grows what&#8217;s known as The Beard, a semi-autonomous entity with its own wants and needs (e.g. &quot;I&#8217;m not quite ready to go, but The Beard is getting antsy&quot;; &quot;The Beard will speak now&#8230;&quot;).&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/the_best_font_ever_9432.asp\">This font<\/a> would be perfect for him&#8211;er, them. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/the_best_font_ever_9432.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.typography.com\/ask\/showBlog.php?blogID=82\">The Sulzbacher Eszett<\/a> celebrates forms of what I&#8217;ll always think of as &quot;that German Big B thing.&quot;  <\/li>\n<li>Say it with me, say it with your chest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torsopants.com\/store\/product.php?productid=5015\">I {Heart} Transitive Pictographic Verbalizations<\/a>! <\/li>\n<li>One of my favorite artists, Jenny Holzer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massmoca.org\/projections.php\">projects the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/035264.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Receding Hairline features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recedinghairline.co.uk\/files\/c1c3be2fda2b218e858029a4bde7e96c-397.html\">Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes<\/a>.&#160; (C&#8217;mon, you know you&#8217;re curious.) <\/li>\n<li>Piranha Bar has fun  mixing fun 3D-ish text with illustration in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mv75.com\/Recent_Work\/Entries\/2008\/4\/9_Failte_Ireland_There.html\">pair<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mv75.com\/Recent_Work\/Entries\/2008\/4\/11_Failte_Ireland_3_in_1.html\">spots<\/a> for Failte Ireland.&#160; Background is in <a href=\"http:\/\/motionographer.com\/2008\/04\/14\/failte-ireland\/\">this article<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build fonts right in your browser via the very cool FontStruct. [Via Chris Kantarjiev] My friend Bryan sometimes grows what&#8217;s known as The Beard, a semi-autonomous entity with its own wants and needs (e.g. &quot;I&#8217;m not quite ready to go, but The Beard is getting antsy&quot;; &quot;The Beard will speak now&#8230;&quot;).&#160; This font would be [&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\/12734"}],"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=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}