A Word About Typography
I ran into an interesting error today when I was signing up for a Coroflot portfolio. I had recently read the FastCompany post about how typography choice made a huge difference in readability for Al Gore’s new book, and so the thought was fresh in my mind when I got to the bottom of my Coroflot registration page.
There, they had one of those images of letters that I’m supposed to be able to read, while a computer cannot. Unlike many of the images these days, this one was actually fairly readable – it was just some normal letters, really, on ..read more
Handwriting Analysis
During the past couple of days I’ve been trying to catch up on the blogs that I read. The first item that caught my eye was shared with me by a friend — a link to FontCapture, a website that creates a font from your handwriting. Now, I recently switched to a Tablet PC, and I’m fascinated with the ability to turn my handwriting into text. Clearly the next logical step is to turn text into my handwriting. Using FontCapture was really easy with a Tablet PC, because instead of printing out the template and filling everything out by hand, ..read more
