Typography Addiction

When you are a designer you have to think about a lot of things, contrast, balance, alignments, imagery, and typography. For me the whole design is all about typography. Not only typefaces, but their use and what you can do playing with them.

Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing) and letter spacing.
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In this post I will list some amazing examples of experimentation in typography. Custom types, redesigned types, handwriting, and many more styles. You can find these images at Flickr.com. There, you will find lots of very good Typography groups constantly updated.

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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through abduzeedo.

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very helpfull!! thanks

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nice air force ones (not verified) 05/15/2008

I find some of these examples difficult to read and almost physically painful to look at. I don't know a whole lot about typography but I'm guessing that's not the ultimate goal.

Anonymous (not verified) 02/28/2008

Wish I'd seen this a few months ago; I was doing an essay on whether typography could be classed as art. With this work as evidence, I can safely say it can be classed as art. Beautiful stuff.

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Luke (not verified) 01/23/2008

http://mm.cpluv.com/media_library/medias/sumeyra2/thumbs/XL01_b696635cff...

this is my first typographic design... i had done for my darling's birthday. and i designed his picture with alfhabets of his name....

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sumeyra (not verified) 01/15/2008

Happy holidays to you too. and a belated Christmas wishes..

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Ashly (not verified) 01/15/2008

Hey, thanks for all the great tutorials and thoughts you put up! I love fonts too...so much so that I often spend more time browsing for them than making stuff with them! Another question though, other than fonts, I feel color is the most important thing...but it's also my "blindspot" as I choose terrible colors that don't go together. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions to bring out the brilliant colors such as those by Pete Harrison at aeiko.net? I love his work...I can follow along and get the gradients, but wondered if there's some palet or scheme to work from for different inspirations... If you could do a tutorial inspired by Pete that woul dbe awesome! Thanks again!

~Jeffrey

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Jeffrey Lin (not verified) 01/12/2008

it appears that the new trend in typography is to make it sloppy, dis-jointed, & un-readable.

99% of the examples above are right on track.

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Anonymous (not verified) 01/11/2008

I really like The Economist's example and I love Flavored Layers..

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giackop (not verified) 01/10/2008

hey nicie examples of typography here.
i would like to know the name you use in behance so i can add you to my circle ;) or.. here is mine oozmaa.

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OZiel MArtinez (not verified) 01/10/2008

Nice examples. Especially i like the first one.

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yusu (not verified) 01/10/2008

As usual, great choice of designs.... if you fell like, would you write a tutorial on one of thse styles?
ciao

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duz (not verified) 01/10/2008

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