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a symbol font that makes it easy to create a map of the United States using only HTML and CSS. Each state can be styled independently with CSS for making simple visualizations. And since it’s a font, it scales bigger and smaller while staying sharp as a tack.

3 months ago

February 15, 2013
photo Tohoku tsunami wave height (predicted) 
via FatFonts (via)
font designed so that the “amount of dark pixels in a numerical character is proportional to the number it represents” for visualization

Tohoku tsunami wave height (predicted) 

via FatFonts (via)

font designed so that the “amount of dark pixels in a numerical character is proportional to the number it represents” for visualization

1 year ago

May 11, 2012
photo Average Font: f (by Moritz Resl)
overlay of 900 fonts

Average Font: f (by Moritz Resl)

overlay of 900 fonts

1 year ago

September 20, 2011
photo Chartwell - opentype font that uses ligatures to display charts
via TK TYPE
!!!!1!11!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!!

Chartwell - opentype font that uses ligatures to display charts

via TK TYPE

!!!!1!11!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!!

2 years ago

March 24, 2011
photo Death to Comic Sans - 26 ways (Red Bubble)
via Gizmodo

Death to Comic Sans - 26 ways (Red Bubble)

via Gizmodo

2 years ago

November 23, 2010
photo Hoefler & Frere-Jones fortune cookies - 
The bird from the sea uses no fonts, because he cannot read and doesn’t have a computer.
via @arlodesign

Hoefler & Frere-Jones fortune cookies - 

The bird from the sea uses no fonts, because he cannot read and doesn’t have a computer.

via @arlodesign

photo The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Typeface Memory Game
via BIS Publishers

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Typeface Memory Game

via BIS Publishers

2 years ago

September 28, 2010
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Helvetica! In! Space!

But let’s say you wanted to stretch one “helvetica” over the same distance [the distance from the earth to the moon as 385,000,000,000 mm]…at what point size would you need to set it? The answer is 282.6 billion points. At that size, the “h” would be 44,600 miles tall, roughly 5.6 times as tall as the Earth.

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And if you wanted to put it yet another way, the Earth is set in 50.2 billion point type — Helvetically speaking — while the Moon is set in 13.7 billion point type.

via kottke

2 years ago

September 9, 2010
photo hysysk:

Apple System Fonts (by lana cavar)

2 years ago

June 22, 2010
reblogged via hysysk
photo Fontopoly by Timba Smits
via PUBLIC SCHOOL

Fontopoly by Timba Smits

via PUBLIC SCHOOL

3 years ago

April 7, 2010