Typical Design

Typical. Type-ical. Typographic.

Love this post from Cameron Moll on Techniques for Designing with Type Characters. I’ve been a typography junky since I was quite young and still have my childhood manual on how to form calligraphic characters by hand.

A while back I found myself assembling a Tinderbox research file that required me to roam the web for examples of type used as art, type used to create pictures and tag clouds.

Font designer Manfred Klein has some font examples (of images made from words, letterforms or type elements), including one featured in Symbol & Icon Fonts Online called TypeFaces…