Driven Type

Pleaseletmedesign used the “Toyota iQ” car, four colored dots, cameras, Open Frameworks and a race car driver to make this experimental typography. Download the iQ font: http://www.iqfont.com.

more about “Driven Type“, posted with vodpod

Uggh, Wingdings was bad enough!

Font Conference

Stupid fun from College Humor. The crazy Wingding guy at the end is the best! Check it out… www.collegehumor.com

Handy Font-Building Tool

FontStruct is an ingenious little font-building tool made available for free to registered users by FontShop. It’s SUPER user-friendly and allows you to create your own fonts from simple geometrical shapes. It’s VERY basic, but kind of fun and quite addicting.

Once you’ve created an alphabet, FontStruct generates a TrueType font for you, ready for any Mac or Windows machine. No application to download. Simply register at fontstruct.fontshop.com/sign_in/fontstructor to start playing.

You can keep your FontStruction to yourself or share it with other users. Explore the The Gallery of fonts made by other users and download them or copy them and make your own variations. Some are pretty obnoxious, but there are a a handful of really elaborate ones. Check out the Structorosa family by pauldhunt and all of the fonts created by nathancox. Amazing what some people have managed to do with this simple tool!

Adobe Font Collection, Great Value for Students

Adobe Font Folio Education Essentials is an OpenType font collection of 25 font families for use by teachers and students for only $149.00. This price still may be a bit high for students, but when you consider the price of these typefaces when purchased individually, it’s a great value. The collection includes many of the essential classics for designers: Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Jenson Pro Opticals, Bickham Script Pro, DIN Std, ITC Officina Sans Std, Kepler Opticals Collection, Trade Gothic LH Std, Univers LT Std and more.

“The collection has been assembled in collaboration with AIGA to provide depth, breadth, and value for higher education…developed by Adobe to help design students afford and acquire a license to a range of fonts in a single package to minimize their costs, while providing a full family of fonts to assist educators in teaching typography.”