Two calligraphy blogs to inspire your hand lettering and the strange phenomenon of the upside down N…
Tag: Netherlands
Friday find: Nice Type videos
Look, a channel on Vimeo dedicated to typographic videos! And did you know there are such things as pre-animated typefaces? I learn something new every day…
Rainy Day identity
I enjoy this rather literal identity for Rainy Day designed by Toko, a Dutch studio Based in Sydney, Australia. The result is, as they put it, “almost too obvious but too good to ignore”.
The quest for an average font
The fascinating explorations in finding an average of all existing fonts has lead different people down different roads, here are some examples…
Dutch design legend Wim Crouwel
He started out as a painter, but got hooked on typography instead. Let’s take a look at the fantastic grid-based typographic works of living design icon Wim Crouwel.
Dyslexie: A font for people with dyslexia
Dutch graphic designer Christian Boer has designed a font to help those who suffer from dyslexia to minimise reading errors. Drawing on his own experience of dyslexia he made custom tweaks to all the letterforms and punctuation of the western alphabet.