:'(

my car is being totalled tomorrow

i had to sign it over to the insurance company today

i miss it terribly

univers 65 v. meta

COMPARISONS!!!!

let's see how fast i can do this!

UNIVERS 56 v. META!

• both are sans-serif fonts with very little modulation!
• both have double-story "a"s!
• Univers has a geometric g
• the terminals of letters such as m, n, r, u, t, etc, all curl away slightly
• Univers 65 is heavier than meta
• META WINS!

Cochin v. Cheltenham

Cheltenham and Cochin are both serif fonts. Cochin has higher contrast and isn't as heavy as Cheltenham. The x-height on Cochin is lower. The set widths of both are about the same. The terminals of Cochin are flat and feel more calligraphic than Cheltenham's rounded teardrop terminals.

COCHIN WINS!

Typographic Genealogy

There they are. I'm proud of this...

So I just downloaded a bunch of free fonts off myfont.com, fontshop.com, and typophilia.com... museo 500, museo sans 500, quicksand (a mediocre font with really bad spacing... but hey, it was free!!), anivers, designal LW20, chambers sans... and i think that's it. i really can't remember. I'm way tired. I was watching The Naked Archaeologist and I noticed all the strange type they use on that show... Arnprior? Why would anybody use that when talking about Judeo-Christians? Maybe I'm just missing something.

Goodnight.

Typeface Showdown: Palatino v. Goudy

Both Palatino and Goudy are serif-faces with similar x-heights and set widths. However, Goudy is slightly narrower and Palatino is slightly taller, in terms of x-height. Goudy has more modulation and higher contrast between the thick and thin strokes. The brackets to Goudy's serifs are more pronounced. Though still triangular, Palatino's serifs are flatter than Goudy's. The bowls on the R and P do not connect to the stem in Palatino.

Goudy wins.

Poster Illustration

"pomegranates!"

--Matt Duerr (19, tall, single, and very ready to mingle)

Typeface babies

The two faces I have to merge are Akzidenz Grotesk Bold and Arnold Bocklin. I don't like either. I decided to do names that only old people would have because Arnold Bocklin screams 1970's-old-person-brown-pants-and-weird/bad-shirts sort of style to me. Therefore, I asked my mom to give me some names of some of the older people in my family... (except Alejandra... that was my first one and I just blindly threw that in there...)

I'm thinking of dropping Bessie because I feel like I've done all I can with those letters... (sorry, Great-Grandma...). I'll probably use Auntie Em or something and try some different letters.

I love... / I hate...

Museo Sans!!
plus... I thought this was a joke... but I was horribly wrong...

Comparison between BauerBodoni and Century Oldstyle

First, both are serif typefaces. Century Oldstyle has teardrop terminals on letters such as a, c, f, g, j, etc, whereas BauerBodoni has ball terminals. There is higher contrast between the modulations and the stem weights of BauerBodoni than in Century Oldstyle. Century Oldstyle has bracketed serifs, in contrast to BB's slab serifs. The x-height of BB is shorter than CO and the set width of CO is wider than BB.

Because of all of this, BauerBodoni is the superior typeface in my book.

Experimental Type -- take 3

experimental type-- take 2

The reason I work...

Why do I drive 9 hours round trip home once every 28 days to work at Chilis?

Yeah, I do it for the money.

Hence, my most recent paycheck.

Experimental Typography -- Take 1

a work in progress

This is how I feel

uuuuuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh