Sans Forgetica – A Font Designed to Help You Remember What You Read
Developed by researchers and designers specializing in typography and behavioral science, Sans Forgetica is a new font designed to help readers better remember the information they read by forcing them to spend a bit more time on each word. The design of Sans Forgetica is based on a font called Albion, but with substantial modifications to […]
Artist Creates Detailed Portraits Entirely Out of Handwritten Text
California-based artist Phil Vance spends hundreds of hours creating typography portraits of historical icons entirely out of handwritten words and phrases. From afar, Phil Vance’s typography portraits look like expertly drawn artworks, but as you draw nearer to them, you start to see that every feature is actually made up of handwritten text. Once you […]
Artist Uses Thousands of Letters to Create Detailed Images
Erin Smith is a young Australian artist who deconstructs entire passages of text and uses the thousands of individual letters to create beautiful detailed artworks. The 29-year-old from Queensland moved to Melbourne a few years back, to study graphic design, and has recently moved back to her home state. It turned out this wasn’t the right […]
Disabled Street Beggar Creates Beautiful Typography, Sells It to Font Supplier
Chui Xianren, a disabled street beggar from Shangdong, China, has recently become an online star after photos of his beautiful handwriting were posted on a popular Chinese site. Now Founder Electronics, the biggest Chinese font supplier in the world has decided to acquire his unique typography. There are many talented font designers out there, but […]