typography

Creating Faux Bold with Strokes: the Catch

Many of you probably know that if you don’t have the bold or italics version of a font installed in your system, you shouldn’t use your DTP application’s option to make it bold or italics, because that will simply result in a simulation which might work on screen or with a desktop printer, but that can cause problems once your file is sent to an external printer using a RIP.

A solution to this can be adding a border around type. Applications such as Illustrator, Corel Draw, InDesign and others allow you to do that. However there is a catch, which I discovered not long ago while working a my company’s logo (that I didn’t design).

Typography Upside Down

Put your head on the floor, balance yourself so that your crossed legs stick up in the air and your head holds your body. Now start typing. All right! That's not quite what I mean by upside down typography...

Tip O’ the Day: Open Type Fonts Are Cross Platform

Macs don't have the monopoly of the graphic design market anymore, so how do you work with a designer who doesn't use your same OS?

Comic Sans Must Die

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