FoxLand » Typography

The most-hated font in the world

Andrew Fox — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:47:47 +0000

Poor old misunderstood Comic Sans – created with the best intentions – but either hated or poorly used. Take a look at this story on Wall Street Journal about the font, and its creator Vincent Connare.

Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

Christian Nolle — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:54:21 +0000

Imagine if Saul Bass had designed the Star Wars intro. Via Jason Kottke.

Ugly

Andrew Fox — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:23:39 +0000

Call it the influence of MySpace or a reaction to the slick clean design status quo, but the Creative Review blog discusses what it is (possibly) calling “The New Ugly”. The most high profile example of this is, of course, the Olympics 2012 logo.

How to improve typography on the web

Andrew Fox — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:00:18 +0000

We’re sticklers for detail, but getting typography to work well on the web is not easy. Or, as Mark Boulton and Clearleft put it, typography sucks on the web – and they have a SXSW presentation online that goes into detail of how to improve it.