im in love

...with TYPOGRAPHY!
just found out how awesome it is and i need more! anyone know of any good typography books?!?

ive noticed Collisiontheory, conor, and jsheldon seem to know what theyre doing, and help?

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   LitoQ said 5 months ago

   i second that!

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   Randomentity said 5 months ago

   i posted Thinking With Type in the must read books thread. it’s really good.

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   conor said 5 months ago

   Thanks dude! I like to check out a lot of magazines. Design, photography, technology, or whatever type of magazine that interests me at the time. I like looking at the advertisements, they have the best type treatments.

   I’ll be honest, most of the time I just pick a basic font to start off with, trace it with the wacom to get that handwritten look and just add to it subtle details that make it it’s own.

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   Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

   Randomentity said: i posted Thinking With Type in the must read books thread. it’s really good.

   thanks man, ill check it out! i really need a couple good ones to hold me off on two mission trips and a vacation.

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   quakerninja said 5 months ago

   oh what was the name of that kids book with all the animals at a party or something and it was a-z and a lot of alliteration in it. The illustrations were really neat. ooo curse my drug wounded memory.
   http://www.commarts.com/

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   Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

   conor said: Thanks dude! I like to check out a lot of magazines. Design, photography, technology, or whatever type of magazine that interests me at the time. I like looking at the advertisements, they have the best type treatments. I’ll be honest, most of the time I just pick a basic font to start off with, trace it with the wacom to get that handwritten look and just add to it subtle details that make it it’s own.

   Thanks for the advice connor! yea i was going through some magazines at barnes and noble the other day and found this really cool font in an actual typography magazine. totally lost the magazine and couldnt find, and then a week later i saw the exact same font in an ad on a different magazine. haha thats when it hit me! so what font site would you recommend? i found dafont.com to be pretty good but ive never really found a better one..

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   conor said 5 months ago

   birdie3431 said:

   conor said: Thanks dude! I like to check out a lot of magazines. Design, photography, technology, or whatever type of magazine that interests me at the time. I like looking at the advertisements, they have the best type treatments. I’ll be honest, most of the time I just pick a basic font to start off with, trace it with the wacom to get that handwritten look and just add to it subtle details that make it it’s own.

   Thanks for the advice connor! yea i was going through some magazines at barnes and noble the other day and found this really cool font in an actual typography magazine. totally lost the magazine and couldnt find, and then a week later i saw the exact same font in an ad on a different magazine. haha thats when it hit me! what font site would you recommend? i found dafont.com to be pretty good but ive nevr really found a better one..

   dafont is a good one, also 1001fonts.com as well. If you want some really good fonts though, you have to dish out the dough!

   My favs come from:
   Ths - http://ths.nu/ths.php?p3=nav_typefaces
   Misprinted Type - http://misprintedtype.com/v3/fonts.php
   Veer - http://www.veer.com/products/type/
   YWFT - http://youworkforthem.com/typefaces

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   Randomentity said 5 months ago

   myfonts is really good.
   check out http://www.typophile.com/
   to get your type nerd on. seriously. there are some other websites that are all about typography and just hardcore type nerds discussing the pro’s and con’s of sans vs slab serif fonts and shit. it’s scary.

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   Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

   quakerninja said: oh what was the name of that kids book with all the animals at a party or something and it was a-z and a lot of alliteration in it. The illustrations were really neat. ooo curse my drug wounded memory. http://www.commarts.com/

   haha not sure quaker, but it sounds alot like the rainbow shirt over at dbh ( http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/detail/1427?category=mens ) and i love it.

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    Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

    conor said: dafont is a good one, also 1001fonts.com as well. If you want some really good fonts though, you have to dish out the dough! My favs come from: Ths - http://ths.nu/ths.php?p3=nav_typefaces Misprinted Type - http://misprintedtype.com/v3/fonts.php Veer - http://www.veer.com/products/type/ YWFT - http://youworkforthem.com/typefaces

    yea most of the good ones dont come for free, but i really just need a good starting point. after i looked through that typography magazine all i wanted to do all day was see if i could come up with a cool font for a shirt. haha never really did but it was fun trying!

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    collisiontheory said 5 months ago

    Wow thanks for the mention but the only type i can do well is my calligraphy. I have ways to go to truly understand typography as a science. I really like typography more as an artform. So I really dig these guys:

    THS/Misprinted Type
    Oded Ezer -http://www.odedezer.com/ some highly experimental shit
    Alex Trochut -http://www.alextrochut.com/ -- One of the best typographers right now
    Si Scott - http://www.siscottstudio.com/ - totally unique style and ripped often
    and of course Sagmeister, the master!

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    Perudoesitbetter said 5 months ago

    haha thinking with type....oh Ellen Lupton.

    Oh Type 1 class...

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    quakerninja said 5 months ago

    
    by graeme base

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    Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

    quakerninja said: by graeme base

    OMFG! I HAVE THAT BOOK AND I LOVED IT! everything on the page started with that letter! haha damn it quaker but now ive gotta go find it!

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    Mickymays said 5 months ago

    i’m in love with a stripper

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    Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

    MickyMays said: i’m in love with a stripper

    baaa ZING! i knew it...

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    Master_Control said 5 months ago

    Willie Kunz has an amazing Typography book. Look him up.

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    forloveofOCTOBER said 5 months ago

    You should definitely check out who i consider to be one of the kings of type--David Carson. He has a few books out that show off his style. He’s been around for ages and still produces work that blows modern design out of the water. I own one of his books, The End Of Print and love it.

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    conor said 5 months ago

    collisiontheory said: Si Scott - http://www.siscottstudio.com/ - totally unique style and ripped often

    Holy shit, that guy is awesome.

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    Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

    Randomentity said: myfonts is really good. check out http://www.typophile.com/ to get your type nerd on. seriously. there are some other websites that are all about typography and just hardcore type nerds discussing the pro’s and con’s of sans vs slab serif fonts and shit. it’s scary.

    wow. haha i thought you were kidding... they are creepy.

    forloveofOCTOBER said: You should definitely check out who i consider to be one of the kings of type--David Carson. He has a few books out that show off his style. He’s been around for ages and still produces work that blows modern design out of the water. I own one of his books, The End Of Print and love it.

    Hes really good too! definately gonna have to bookmark his site.

    MasterControl said: Willie Kunz has an amazing Typography book. Look him up.

    yea thanks, hes really good.
    his book is $80, but it looks legit!

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    RikkiB said 5 months ago

    birdie3431 said:

    quakerninja said: by graeme base

    OMFG! I HAVE THAT BOOK AND I LOVED IT! everything on the page started with that letter! haha damn it quaker but now ive gotta go find it!

    Me too! and the 11th hour :)

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    sittingduck said 5 months ago

    something I’ve found that’s helped me a TON with doing custom typography is to type out what I want in a simple font, kern it super close, then create completely custom typo on top of it. I use the original font just for spacing and layout, I don’t use any of it in the typo, it was hard to get used to doing it that way, but I’ve found I can line stuff up a ton better that way.

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    heavyprints said 5 months ago

    Adobe fonts make me so happy. Ligaturessssssssssss

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    Greg Abbott said 5 months ago

    Hand Job is a sweet hand drawn type book.

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    Tang said 5 months ago

    I love this thread!
    Thanks for those links!

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    manos said 5 months ago

    http://www.alextrochut.com/

    ^^ check that out

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    collisiontheory said 5 months ago

    manos said: http://www.alextrochut.com/ ^^ check that out

    Lol mentioned that up there too but yeah his works totally blow my mind!

    Greg Abbott said: Hand Job is a sweet hand drawn type book.

    Yes forget about this!

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    Birdie3431 said 5 months ago

    sittingduck said: something I’ve found that’s helped me a TON with doing custom typography is to type out what I want in a simple font, kern it super close, then create completely custom typo on top of it. I use the original font just for spacing and layout, I don’t use any of it in the typo, it was hard to get used to doing it that way, but I’ve found I can line stuff up a ton better that way.

    haha very sneaky!

    Greg Abbott said: Hand Job is a sweet hand drawn type book.

    yea im gonna have to get that one. thanks for the link!

    manos said: http://www.alextrochut.com/ ^^ check that out

    wow, he definately knows a thing or two!

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    manos said 5 months ago

    collisiontheory said:

    manos said: http://www.alextrochut.com/ ^^ check that out

    Lol mentioned that up there too but yeah his works totally blow my mind!

    oops - didn’t bother reading what others proposed. :(

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    AYYOGOLDSTEIN said 5 months ago

    I really expected to open this and it would just say

    "I’M ALL SHOOK UP!"

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    conor said 5 months ago

    Greg Abbott said: Hand Job is a sweet hand drawn type book.

    Thank you for that! I’m buying this one now.

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