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Priori Acute

By Aaron Macks on February 4, 2010 8:32 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I've seen many fonts try to play the "optical illusion" card, but seldom as well as Priori Acute by Jonathan Barnbrook and distributed by Emigre.
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To add to the fun, some letters have alternate forms, as seen in the R
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Dropcap Title Image

By Aaron Macks on December 20, 2009 9:37 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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Assembled of letters from Daily Drop Cap

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AM in Bacteria

By Aaron Macks on November 2, 2009 11:30 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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This was part of the Rado Award winning work, Symbiosis by Jelte van Abbema which included printing an entire alphabet in bacterial culture.  The shapes and colors are due to the growth and death of the culture.
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Diderot

By Aaron Macks on October 5, 2009 9:28 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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In celebration of the birthday of Denis Diderot, the first encyclopediest, this title was assembled from the large capitols that adorned the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers his opus. Diderot was born on October 5, 1713 and published the first edition of his Encyclopedia, with the help of Jean d'Alembert beginning in  1751.

The letter M is from the start of the article on stone masons (Maçon) and the A is from the article on Astronomy. 

Images from Art Dico.

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IQ Font

By Aaron Macks on August 3, 2009 11:52 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
An unusual ad campaign from Toyota to promote their subcompact, the IQ.  The IQ font is rendered from data captured from a professional driver driving an IQ to form the path of each letter.  There is a video available, it'll auto play on load, and you can download the font for free
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The Letter A

By Aaron Macks on August 3, 2009 10:26 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
In hunting down some letters to redo the masthead, I found far more A's then M's.  When I have time I'll be posting some of the bachelor letters A.
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From: William Cowper (1666-1709).  Myotomia reformata, or an anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body illustrated with figures after the life. London: Printed for Robert Knaplock . . ., William & John Innes, and Jacob Tonson, 1724. Images available digitally in the James Moores Bal Collectionl at Washington University's Bernard Becker collection. 

Drawing in Light

By Aaron Macks on July 13, 2009 9:16 PM | No Comments | 1 TrackBack
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Title Image

By Aaron Macks on June 30, 2009 4:31 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Source for the current title image is Bibliodyssey's collection of alphabetic grotesques
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