Typography Addiction
When you are a designer, you gotta think about a lot of things: contrast, balance, alignments, imagery, and typography. For me, design itself is all about typography. Not only typefaces, but how you use it and what you may create playing with them.
Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.
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In this post I will list some amazing examples of experimentation in typography. Custom types, redesigned types, handwriting, and many more styles. You can find these images at Flickr.com. There, you will find lots of very good Typography groups constantly updated.
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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.
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16 Comments
It's seem a bit freaky to me.
I love all of the designs. I can't wait to [finally] start the digital arts class I'm taking this semester so I can start making stuff like this. Great post - thanks!
Two months late but thanks for linking to my image (papertank). Really appreciate it! I follow this blog and never even noticed this before!? Not until I got my Flickr stats up and running today. Who knows how I missed it... Anyway, thanks again :o)
Jo x
Great examples. Especially i like the first one too.
Great designs! Keep it up! But I'm having a hard time reading some of the texts.
very helpfull!! thanks
I find some of these examples difficult to read and almost physically painful to look at. I don't know a whole lot about typography but I'm guessing that's not the ultimate goal.
Wish I'd seen this a few months ago; I was doing an essay on whether typography could be classed as art. With this work as evidence, I can safely say it can be classed as art. Beautiful stuff.
http://mm.cpluv.com/media_library/medias/sumeyra2/thumbs/XL01_b696635cff...
this is my first typographic design... i had done for my darling's birthday. and i designed his picture with alfhabets of his name....
Happy holidays to you too. and a belated Christmas wishes..
Hey, thanks for all the great tutorials and thoughts you put up! I love fonts too...so much so that I often spend more time browsing for them than making stuff with them! Another question though, other than fonts, I feel color is the most important thing...but it's also my "blindspot" as I choose terrible colors that don't go together. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions to bring out the brilliant colors such as those by Pete Harrison at aeiko.net? I love his work...I can follow along and get the gradients, but wondered if there's some palet or scheme to work from for different inspirations... If you could do a tutorial inspired by Pete that woul dbe awesome! Thanks again!
~Jeffrey
it appears that the new trend in typography is to make it sloppy, dis-jointed, & un-readable.
99% of the examples above are right on track.
I really like The Economist's example and I love Flavored Layers..
hey nicie examples of typography here.
i would like to know the name you use in behance so i can add you to my circle ;) or.. here is mine oozmaa.
Nice examples. Especially i like the first one.
As usual, great choice of designs.... if you fell like, would you write a tutorial on one of thse styles?
ciao
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