Category: Typography

Typeface

Posted on Posted in Typography3 Comments

This is the first typeface I’ve ever created and I’ve been working on it for a few days now but I still have some work to do on it. It’s all based on the grid you see in the background and all the angles are 45 degrees. I still need to adjust some of the widths of the characters and I’m not loving the N, but overall I like the way it’s coming out. I’m just creating uppercase characters cause I eventually want to use this for big headlines and such. I also plan to do numbers and punctuation as well. Let me know what you guys think. Give me some feedback.        

Baseline Rhythm Calculator

Posted on Posted in Design, Grid Systems, Typography1 Comment

Creating a copy structure to work with your design is just as important as the design itself. Consistent leading and type alignment is crucial to the organization and the legibilty of the copy in a design. That’s where baselines come in. The guys over at Peepcode have create a great little tool called Baseline Rhythm Calculator that can generate a basic stylesheet with the proper calculations for consistent baselines.