Tag: Font
How To: Create Your Own Unique Digital Handwriting Font
I grew up handwriting letters, but now that we do everything on the computer, I find myself forgetting how to write in cursive. I type even the simplest notes and print them to avoid showcasing my embarrassing penmanship.
Is the art of handwriting gone forever? I've written about this before ...
Typography You Can Wear – Using Humans As Typeface
The nature of our environment and our lives is moving faster and faster. Just think about two very small pieces of the puzzle: Augmented reality and social media. The growth in those two areas alone is enough to make anyone's head spin.
It makes sense that if an ordinary sign is to keep up wit ...
The Top 5 Fonts You Should Never Use?!
You often read the word "font" here on Bit Rebels. In typography, a font (also fount) is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface. Do you contemplate about the font that you will use in your design? Or, if you are not a designer, do you ...
Typography Soap – The Cleanest Font Ever Created
Now this is the kind of soap that makes me get excited about getting dirty! I can't wait to mess around in some mud! (Ok, maybe not) I admit it; there are many days when I'm working so hard on a project at my desk that it is a huge inconvenience to take a shower. I do it anyway and rush back to ...
Helvetica – Now You Can Have Your Font And Eat It Too
Everyone loves Helvetica. Even though I'm not a designer, I have seen many of my designer friends fall completely in love with that font. I asked @Minervity what the appeal of Helvetica is, and he said, "It is a robust, iconic font that looks good in almost all designs." I never knew a font could ...
How To: Improve your handwriting!
Have you ever had a friend that you think has that perfect handwriting? I do and I always ask her to write my greetings cards and present tags just because I always usually write in capitals when I write. I know, a really bad habit. I grew a custom to the trade when I was younger and even did it on ...
NYC meets Istanbul, a Typography story in 60 seconds
Love this Turkish edition ad for the New York Times, Turkish Edition, featured by Designflux an online mag, focusing on motion graphic design. The designers at Imago used actual pages from the first issue of Turkish Edition to create the 'newspaper' texture effect to portray well known landmarks o ...
How To Create a Font – Video Tutorial
Many people have written me on my Twitter account asking me if there are any tutorials out there that shows you how to create a TrueType font. Well, there are plenty. However, usually they are very confusing and not so fun to read so I thought I might look in to it a little bit more. And what I fund ...
For my first trick…
So, this is my first post here on BitRebels. I really just wanted to give a 'Howdy' to everyone, and just to say keep your eyes peeled - BR's going places!! :)
I haven't quite figured what I'll be posting about yet, but suffice it to say, it'll be random geekery goodness, and my hope is that you ...
Twitter Logo Font Revealed
There has been quite a bit of talk going around among designers what font Twitter uses in there logo. Some have their own opinion that it's custom made, some say it's a rather common font that has been slightly modified. Some of you might know it already and some might now. However, we will now reve ...