A passion for fonts
I’ve always loved typefaces, or fonts. Most people don’t spend much time thinking about them—but they’re everywhere. Everything you read—every sign, book, and logo—is in a font. Most of the time, if they’re doing their job well, fonts send a message—either overt or subliminal. The rest of the time, they’re discreet, succeeding at not being noticed.
An article in yesterday’s New York Times pointed me to a couple of websites that are fun to visit for anyone with an eye for design. You can turn your own handwriting into a font at www.fontifier.com; at Spell with Flickr you can enter any word you like and have it spelled back to you in a variety of letters borrowed from street signs, Scrabble, and shapes in nature; or you can play the “Retail Alphabet Game”.
Have fun!
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