Tag: FONT

As a part of its 'Standard Deviations; Prototypes, Archetypes, and Families in Contemporary Design' exhibit, the Museum of Modern Art has acquired something rather intangible: a collection of 23 digital fonts. From the pixelated Oakland font of the 1980s to the familiarly clean Gotham, each of these typefaces suggests that the mere appearance of a letter, notwithstanding the words it might make, ...

Over at Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian wonders aloud, "Did desktop publishing ruin design terminology?" We often use the term 'font' when we mean 'typeface,' a term that has almost completely fallen out of use outside of graphic design circles. Vartanian's helpful look back at FontFeed, though, clears up their distinction. "Font is what you use, and typeface is what you see," says Norbert ...

Calling all counterfeiters, identity thieves and extortionists! The pen-makers over at Pilot have recently launched a free Web app that converts your handwriting (or, we suppose, anyone else's) into a typeface. Check out the video demo after the break. It makes the process seem simpler than it really is, but we have to say that, whether you'd use it to compose a thoughtful digital missive or ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. We promise this is not a creepy sex toy. In fact, this moaning rubber mouth is an aid for the hearing impaired, specifically designed to help them improve their vocal ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Proving Hollywood's inability to stop rebooting '80s films, the 'Predators' movie has gotten its first official trailer, dropping the original's Schwarzenegger and ...

It should come as no surprise that at Switched we communicate, not only with each other, but the outside world primarily through electronic means. In fact, last week's CES was the first time most of us have ventured outside of our solitary writing dungeons in months. One of the shortcomings of e-mail and instant messaging is that often our natural snark and sarcasm gets lost in translation to ...