More on Fonts

It seems that if I ever talk to folks in person about my blog, the most commented on post is On Typeface, the expression of my perverse love of fonts. Since that post, typography seems to keep coming up frequently in my life, so I wanted to add three more news items in regards to typeface.

First, one of my friends from college sent me another site to accompany the whatthefont.com that I wrote about previously. Whereas in whatthefont, one uploads images and the site identifies characteristics of the typface, identifont.com asks a series of specific questions about how the font appears to try and identify the one you are trying to find.

In case you need to get very specific.

Secondly, I never realized that the font Trajan is so ubiquitous with film posters. It is basically a font the Roman Empire used (and was taken from a obelisk dedicated to the Roman Emperor Trajan), and was at first used for very dramatic movies. Now it is basically used for any movie poster as this short and amusing video demonstrates:

Lastly, for those who believed that strange folks having an unbridled love of typeface were doomed to express their love for serifs and kearns with others exclusively on the internet, have no fear, TypeCon 2008 is here (or rather, was here). I first heard about the bizarre convention for quirky font lovers in this amusing article.

If you thought Comic-Con was the nerdiest convention of the summer, then I'm afraid, Good Sir, that you were mistaken. I submit to you TypeCon.