I chose this website because it proved to be beneficial during projects such as my magazine layout. It’s actually really simple. You go on the website, chose the specific font you want, download it, and add it to your document. It’s really simple and brings more fonts to the table besides the 5 million already found in Suitcase. And it’s free! Hope you like! Click Here to visit the site!
I found this blog where there are 15 videos of dialogue from movies displayed as motion typography. It is really cool. The typography along with the colors and movements match perfectly with the dialogue. Every one of them is interesting to watch. As a film lover I found this to be a really cool way to link typography with film and movement. It just seems like an awesome concept, and it comes out looking really great and enjoyable to watch.
I was super tired of using fonts that I found off of Google, so I made it a mission to find some new ones I’ve never seen before. Mission accomplished. http://www.acidfonts.com/
I love this movie and just think this poster is so cool. If you look closely it is made up of cards to put together the Joker. A lot of cool things one can do with graphics!
This article shows the 16 most loved fonts to use for websites. As professor Harper said before, only a certain amount of fonts work and are recognizable for web design, so this is a good article to use to explore what fonts may work with your website. They are all relatively simple fonts but they get the point across and can really help accent your website. This seems like a great article to use to figure out what fonts will work for you.
This image exemplifies how typography can be used to create images. I found the wispy movement of this font to depict the feeling of elegance and tranquility. The letters add a third dimension to an otherwise simple shape. I would like to try to integrate typography images into my web design project.
I came across this picture that I thought applied well to our class. It uses different elements that we have learned to create an image that is graphically appealing and interesting. And it definitely catches your attention.
For those who want to use a dark background with text on top, this is a great discussion of which fonts are most readable in that type of situation. I definitely needed some guidance on what fonts are legible in white on black for my magazine, and I think this could be helpful for the web design project as well. The discussion thread can be found here.
I actually enjoyed working on this magazine. The reason is mainly because I have a burning passion for the band that I decided to base it off of. The band is called Mumford and Sons, and they are an awesome folk alternative band from the UK. I thought it would be a really cool idea to feature them in an article about how they’re taking over the U.S., since I just recently saw them in a sold out concert in Philly. At first, I had to decide what kind of magazine I wanted to do, and I came up with an indie music/lifestyle type of magazine. It has a very sophisticated, almost retro feel to it, and I think it works perfect with the band and their image. I named the magazine Parlotone. The word Parlotone doesn’t actually mean anything, in fact, I’m fairly certain it isn’t even a word. I know a band called The Parlotones, and the word felt like a perfect name for my magazine, considering it had the word Tone in it, and that’s a very musical word.
I decided to use my favorite image, one of them in a barbershop, as my cover image. I scaled it down and I think it looks great for the cover. I picked fonts that I thought would go really well with my sophisticated, folky magazine. They’re older fonts, and they seem very gentleman-like, which is perfect for the band and the magazine. I picked high quality images of some live playing, and added another image from the barbershop photoshoot because I thought it fit well with the article. I changed the colors into a more sepia, tan because I thought it went well with my pull out quotes and my overall magazine color. I wanted it to be very uniform and simple and I think that comes across when you look at it. I tried to use big, dominating images, and I really liked how my first spread turned out. My sidebar goes really well with the article because it shows their North American tour dates, and the article is all about how they’re taking over the U.S. The colors all match and it’s a very earthy, old style which is exactly what I thought of when I first started. I used an advertisement for scotch whiskey, because I thought it went perfectly with my magazine and its gentleman-like quality. All in all, I think I really accomplished what I set out to make my magazine to be, and that is a very folky, sophisticated and stylish music/lifestyle magazine featuring an amazing unique band.
In researching typography I came across some exquisite works, which made me realize that some people use typography solely for art. I chose these two pieces because I think they best capture my own self-doubt on the relevance of typography. The first work shows this beautiful incoherence of words, black, and pink. It seems simplistic, but there is something very enchanting and lovely about this piece. It shows how typography can make something curious and turn it into art. On the other hand, the second picture represents my thoughts in doubting just how much typography really matters and why people make such a fuss about it. I agree that having different fonts is good and that those specific fonts are used wisely for appropriate publications or works, but to create movies, write books and have entire events held just for some chicken scratch on paper seems a bit excessive. I guess I will not choose either side because both of these works are beautiful to me and typography is the common theme of their message.
