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The Handwriting of Type Designers
jamie found this blog post wherein an Australian Web technologist, Cameron Adams, wondered whether the handwriting of his favorite type designers encoded some sort of influence on their designs. So he wrote to them and asked for a sample. The result will make you slow down and appreciate the beauty and the aesthetics of type. Or else it won't.
Anyone else notice that the typographers who either reside in the US or have resided in the US their writing is much more legible?
Er, the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Function over form. All I ever want is the maximum number of words on a screen/page so i don't have to scroll as much. Thus typesetters' creative use of white space, PDF, and web page sidebars can all go to hell. And don't get me started on the text viewers on mobile phones. Or the way magazines pay to have the layout artistically done in 50 billion colours and 60 billion DPI but cannot get the spelling or facts right. Or those kids on my DAMN lawn AGAIN.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Well I agree. I don't mean to troll while everybody else seems to be, uhm, enjoying the beauty and the aesthetics of type, and I normally don't put down things like this, but I thought most of the writings were pretty gay and pretentious. All these snob curves.. like the d from the first one. "Ooh look at me, being all arty schmarty in my 'casual' handwriting." In the meantime, they've probably been bend over desks and papers painstakingly trying to get it right - not so casual. What's worse is many of them will consider themselves "artists", because being a mere "designer" is no good, while none of them have any originality whatsoever and seem like products aimed to generate a stock perception of the writer. No artists. Kitsch. Oh, I know, I'm being too tough. I'm one of those "99 out of 100 artists should get a job..at McDonals's". Could up it though. One advantage of a new great depression would be that we'd finally get to kick some real art out of all those self-declared art persons in prosperous times, with their curvy handwriting skills.