Josh Sager Media: Creative Technologies Blog

Every now and again I come across some ideas I wish I had first.  Some of them are really clever, some are just really simple. Mostly my appreciation comes from thinking DAMNIT I should have thought of that.  Nevertheless I wanted to pass along a few things that are fun, clever, and definitly good ideas.

There is a designer disclaimer here by the way.  If you don’t get it I apologize cause you’re not in the club.  If you do get it then congrats you should be receiving your cool designer live-strong bracelet and horn-rimmed glasses in the mail within the next few weeks.

• A Font Game - Rachel: Credit for showing me
• Font Periodic Table - Ben Pritchard: Credit for showing me
• Study of A-Holes - Samantha Warren: Credit for showing me

How well do you know your type?  As a designer and developer I thought I was “hip to the know”.  Well I gots myself an ed-u-m-ication and found out I’m really just a pixel pushing hack.

Last weekend I picked up Tips on Type aiding my new typography infatuation. It was chalked full of old school terms, practices, and ideals on page layout and type near the dawn of computer page layout. I found the section on the anatomy of type to be very interesting. 

Honestly I’m rather ashamed that I didn’t really know as much about type as I once thought. So for fun I scanned it and turned it into a test. I’m going to hand it out to my students as a fun thing to do before the holidays. That’s right I said fun.

You can download the Typeography Test and take it for yourself. 

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