Fonts and caps lock

With Halloween looming there is much talk about goolish fonts for use during the season. Personally I love halloween and scripted gothic fonts.

So with that in mind I’ve been thinking about fonts and font sites. One of my favorites is da fonts it offers a comprehensive list of fonts often getting new ones in weekly and they are often ‘on trend’. Its particularly handy if you’ve seen a font out and about and you want to try and get something similar. http://www.dafont.com/ Da fonts has both mac and windows fonts for free download.

1001 fonts is also another great resource but theres fewer fonts and theres a slightly different focus to the collection with more of a bias towards unusual fonts, particularly those of a sci-fi tilt. http://www.1001fonts.com/

I also really like this windswept text tutorial on the Computer Arts site, I loved it when I saw it in the magazine but you can download it for free online Bring type to life tutorial. If your looking to do something more unusual and graphic with type then its a great tutorial to try out.

From experience I find it sometimes difficult to make type flow within a design but thats the relationship between the image and text. I’m also interested in the idea of how graphical text can be and how far to the edge of legibility it’ll go.

Another great site for looking at typography as a whole – rather than as fonts is I love typography. Although not frequently updated (I cant say anything!) Its a really beautiful looking blog and covers all things type. In an attempt to better understand type though nothing really beats experimentation and practice in the field.

On a slight side note I came across an article on the BBC site that got me thinking about the power of type and how we interpret text in our mind. The rather interesting case of a New Zealand woman loosing her job over typing an email entirely in caps.

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