Thanks to the affordability of font building software, there’s a wagonload of free typefaces out there for computer users to choose from. Some good. Some not. Today’s featured font has enraged many in the design community for its blatant overuse. If you’re susceptible to using this particular typeface just remember, every time you ‘pull the trigger’ a cowboy cashes […]
Last night, my youngest son, Chase, had an unusual request. While reading one of his ‘Big Nate’ books, he commented on how time-consuming and difficult it was to make a comic because of all the illustration but especially – the hand lettering (he had worked on his own comic page earlier in the day, so he was talking from […]
I always thought the adage “watch your P’s and Q’s” had everything to do with letters. In the early days of printing the fact that the lowercase ‘q’ and ‘p’ were mirror images of each other would create mass confusion with early foundry type setters – or so I assumed. Turns out, supposedly, that the […]