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Random Typography Spot:
No. 03
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on May 22, 2009
Oh err… My local Post Office (Guildford High Street) has come over all touchy-feely. You no longer have to queue up, you take a delicatessan style ticket and relax on the red faux-leather banquette sofas. The good Burghers of Guildford however still prefer to form an orderly line unencumbered by bollards — Gawd bless ‘em.
To go alongside this new customer experience the PO designers have left their traditional typographic shackles behind and opted to use Chevin Bold, a cracking little font from Nick Cooke’s G-Type collection, available from purveyors of fine typefaces Font Shop
Random Typography Spot:
No. 02
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on February 24, 2009
Old enamel signage spotted in Guildford the other day. They don’t make ‘em like this any more… I love these old gothic faces, somewhere between Gill humanism and Futura style accuracy.
Note the juxtaposition with the ‘tasteful’ incised house number. Street furniture needs a little TLC.
Random Typography Spot:
No. 01
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on January 08, 2009
This odd choice of typeface drew my attention when walking over the Hungerford Brige recently. I wonder what the designer was thinking when they opted for this somewhat incongrous font style?
We love the typography on the new James Bond film
Posted by Matt Hamm on November 18, 2008
We all went on a company outing to see the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace. Most of us loved the film, but some of us particularly liked the typography. I personally loved the intro sequence which was put together by MK12. A legend of a motion graphics company.
The Quantum of Solace logo is made from a typeface called Neutraface by House industries. This typeface is just fantastic and there are so many font weight variations which all look dead sexy.
The beautiful location intro typefaces were handcrafted by Tomato. It was nice to see this attention to detail rather than the typical way of dealing with location typography.
Say no to ugly widows &ndash
Widon't for the masses
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on November 11, 2008
OK, this may sound a bit funny and it may be considered over-attention to detail, but it can really spoil a design and potentially hamper reading when a headline doesn’t quite fit on a single line and leaves you with one word hanging underneath. That’s what we mean by a 'widow'.
This is particularly relevant to newspaper sites or blogs where the headline may form a central feature to the look of a whole page. It’s not just headlines though, even in body copy widows are generally considered poor style and should be avoided. But how to control them in a content-managed site? Luckily for those of us that worry about such things there’s Widon’t.