I'm more than a little preoccupied with fonts and typefaces, and am constantly vexed by unidentifiable ones on signs, etc. that I can't place or recall. A while back Lia sent me a link to an iPhone application that actually works pretty well in this situation - WhatTheFont. It uses the same image recognition technology... Continue Reading →
for the font-conscious.
Once again Lia's UCSD Arts Blog clues me into something rad: FontStruct, an awesome web-based program that lets you design fonts and share them via Creative Commons. Download and rate "fontstructions" in the site's Gallery. A few examples of styles created with the program: