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Typography Thursday: 8/13

August 13th, 2009  |  typography  |  1 Comment

Where did the last week go? Seriously, I want a do-0ver. On a brighter note, there are lots of cool links floating about.


Video: The quick brown fox … – You know the rest. This well-worn pangram (phrase containing all of the letters of the English alphabet) has been helping to hone typing skills since the late 1880s. (Thanks to Mitchell Hislop)

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Photos: Typesetting and paste-up, 1970 style – Old school photos of the way things used to be (thanks to Brock Ray)

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DIY:
How to Add Decorative Glamour to Your Ordinary Script Font – Learn to trick out your type, vector-style, with this great tutorial by Ferenc Szeles.

Even more DIY: 10 Examples of Beautiful CSS Typography and how they did it… – Still salivating over this one even though it’s a year old. Excellent post by 3.7 Designs’ Ross Johnson.

Tags: links, typography thursday

Responses

That fox video is hilarious!

Thank you so much for the 10 examples link! My head has been buried in CSS for weeks now and I want to absorb everything I can. I’m just starting to get into “fine tuning” designs with CSS and this tutorial is perfect.

Dylan on August 13th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

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