Helvetica is a beautiful font. But if you’re going to use it in a heading it looks much nicer in bold.
Tag: fonts
Font wheel drive
Some car loving boffins got together and decided to make a font. That’s right. A font.
Here’s a video.
iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.
Here’s the font. 
Sans comic sans
Comic Sans was a font designed with a very specific purpose in mind – and it quickly outlived that usefulness.
If you use it regularly – and particularly in “professional” documents or presentations – please cease and desist.
If, like me, you’re frustrated by the use of this abominable font – visit bancomicsans.com and join the cause.
Edgy Humour
I’ll finish tonight’s blogging extravaganza with this little piece of font humour. From here.
ABC of geography
Melbourne designer Rhett Dashwood has been combing the earth – literally – for landmarks that look like letters.
He’s found the whole alphabet in Victoria (on google earth) – and released them to the world. On his website. And here they are…
Knowledge of all font
Here’s a list of the 100 best fonts of all time – written in German – Helvetica takes out top spot. UPDATE: Here’s an English version of the 100 best fonts with a bit more info on how the list was compiled.
If lists aren’t your thing and you’re more a periodic table type here’s a periodic table of fontness (click it for the full sized version).
Sans serif
I just swapped the font on our website from Verdana to Helvetica. It looks nicer already. I don’t know why it was in Verdana to begin with.
Speaking of our website – if you’re from North Queensland and haven’t spammed your local candidates and the party leaders to tell them to fix the Flinders Street Mall – you totally should. Here. Now.
A much nicer font
This is a much nicer font I made using that very cool YourFonts tool. 
You can have it. For free. Download by right clicking and “saving as”. I don’t really expect anyone to use it. It’s just an example of what you can produce using that site.
I know it’s not in the league of my dad’s fonts. Like Foxjump (zip file).
Which was used by the Tasmanian government in its “love this” campaign.
But I spent way too much time today playing with that site.
My font
I finally waded through the YourFont masses and created a quickly written font of my handwriting (right click and save as). This font was constructed with a stubbed niko, two stubbed nikos actually the first was out of ink.
I think I’ll play with this again later.
Fontastic
Fonts are fun. I shared a link to this site in the “best bits” post below but it’s worth a post all of its own.
YourFonts will create a font from your handwriting for “FREE” (as in beer). Will upload mine when it’s done.
Ecofont: where less black is the new green
I may have posted this as one of my reader items from the last week or so – but if you’re seriously concerned about cutting environmental corners wherever you can ( so you can drive a 4WD or commit other justifiable environmental homicide), then this is the font for you. It’ll possibly save you money too.
Ecofont - inspired by silkworms