{"id":12818,"date":"2008-07-14T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/07\/monday-type-vintage-bits-hand-jives-more.html"},"modified":"2008-07-14T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T14:58:42","slug":"monday_type_vintage_bits_hand_jives_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/14\/monday_type_vintage_bits_hand_jives_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Type: Vintage bits, hand jives, &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>In their <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovetypography.com\/2008\/06\/23\/sunday-type-vintage-type\/\">Sunday Vintage Type post<\/a>, <em>i love typography<\/em> shares more good links than you can eat.&#160; It&#8217;s worth a click if only for that first gorgeous Karmann Ghia logotype. <\/li>\n<li>Hands of Fate:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>I dig Douglas Wilson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onpaperwings\/sets\/72157606009493480\/\">Vernacular Typography Polaroids<\/a>&#8211;Polaroids taken of mostly hand-painted signs over the past four years all across the United States. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.typeneu.com\/2008\/07\/08\/vernacular-typography\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Do great typographers have great handwriting?&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themaninblue.com\/articles\/handwritten_typographers\/\">Judge for yourself<\/a>.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Type seldom looks worse to me than when a faux-handwriting or brush font gives itself away via perfectly repeated characters.&#160; House Industries shows off how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseind.com\/index.php?page=showfont&amp;id=665&amp;subpage=studio_swing_features\">automatic character substitution through Open Type<\/a> addresses the problem. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>On the Web:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/typetester.maratz.com\/\">Typetester<\/a> lets you compare multiple typefaces easily.&#160; (This is the sort of thing I&#8217;d love to see running in streamlined form as a Flash or AIR panel inside Creative Suite apps.) <\/li>\n<li>Ralf Herrmann reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/opentype.info\/blog\/2008\/06\/14\/kerning-and-opentype-features-in-firefox-3\/\">kerning &amp; Open Type features in Firefox 3<\/a> .&#160; (A Web browser supporting ligatures?&#160; I really never thought I&#8217;d see it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Think type is too easy to steal?&#160; Fight back with a 17.5lb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseind.com\/index.php?page=accessories&amp;id=675&amp;category=sculpture#675\">cast iron ampersand<\/a>. <em>Bam!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Photoshop type chops:\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Veerle shows off the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/veerle.duoh.com\/blog\/comments\/smart_filters_on_text_in_photoshop_cs3\/\">Smart Filters on text in Photoshop CS3<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/article\/photoshop-how-to-reflective-liquid-type\">reflective liquid type in Photoshop<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their Sunday Vintage Type post, i love typography shares more good links than you can eat.&#160; It&#8217;s worth a click if only for that first gorgeous Karmann Ghia logotype. Hands of Fate: I dig Douglas Wilson&#8217;s Vernacular Typography Polaroids&#8211;Polaroids taken of mostly hand-painted signs over the past four years all across the United States. [&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\/12818"}],"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=12818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}