Tag: typography
Names for typefaces
Greeting Monotone is no Godbold but I’ll take it. I fetishize type cases too much.
A desktop image about attachment.
Sets of sets, letters with warping
Repetition with variation along two dimensions: different Rs, warped to different degrees.
Alphabetized Bible, censorship, wordplay, absurdity
“this should be a typeface, called Godbold”
‘John Gambell suggests the typefaces we as a society choose in which to set our messages are meant to stand in for the speaker of the words themselves’. I do think God would be represented as speaking in bold, generally. I’d be curious to see what would happen with something like Godhandscript Extra Light Distressed. Casual whispering God.
Eyes, loops, symmetry, quote
Red and blue, another handpainted sign
“Finer” foods is a nice touch.
Red and blue, handpainted sign
Red and blue, graffiti
i wonder if the heart symbol is a joke. i’m also having a lot of cognitive dissonance concerning those substitute/symbolic Os and the idea that letters are things, not pictures of things, while words are not things, but pictures of things. this leaves the graffiti approximately nowhere, but i still like the colours.
Marian Bantjes’ first font
Restraint is a font by Marian Bantjes, something I have wished for many times! So many obsessive, interlocking ornaments that it comes with instructions. (Restraint. Ha ha.)
About this new design
I feel like a bit of a wanker talking about My New Website Design since the point for me is to be self-explanatory (I already talked about this stuff by posting the design). But I do like talking about design in regular words too, so here goes.
- The monster’s name is Pearl. That takes some pressure off.
- Mouthful of words.
- Guts out.
- Memento mori in general, and in specific.
- These colours make me want to work.
- The monster is modelled after the radiator that faces our toilet.
- There are more hiding throughout the apartment.
- I thought a lot about Dark Daughta’s confrontational visual design, and mainly I came up with this badly drawn, blurry, lo-fi business. Trying to draw makes me happy. Goofy pixellation makes me happy. Siding with purposeful low quality makes me happy.
- This is about the best drawing I can currently do, which is embarrassing for somebody who makes a living doing design. Working on it. Bad drawing does no harm to mother earth.
- The title font is AUdimat by The Smeltery. I like the f.