I was reading the ilovetypography blog this morning, and they have a few articles on creating your own font. I think I am going to give this a shot – I love drawing, fonts and words – what’s not to love about putting them all together?! Well, I can answer that – the expensive font developing software programs one must buy. So I think I will create my own font that no one else can use because it won’t be a font, it will just be a bunch of Illustrator drawings. Okay, you can use it too. I just really love the idea of creating your own font, then making a poster with it…it’s art, words, and a message on potentially so many layers.

I’m not sure if you follow ilovetypography as fanatically as I do, but here is something I know you will appreciate: the Font Police! This is a blog devoted to bad use of fonts, improper typesetting, and just some general abuses of signage. Finally, a way for me to punish that stupid store downtown that has a sign out front in some godawful version of curlz that says: Fantasys’ Jewel’s. I mean, seriously, I don’t even know what they are trying to sell in there, it could be baby seal pelts, I simply cannot get past the horrible font (which you can’t see, obviously, in this post) or the bizarre use of apostrophes.

Lastly, here is an interesting notebook company. You subscribe to their Field Notes collection, and receive 10 three-packs, in assorted colors, of their fine notebooks, in graph, ruled or mixed. Lovely and functional! They had me with the graph paper option, but the little color wheel in their logo sealed the deal.

I was browsing the WordPress showcase and found these sites. One of them, Modelinia, I think we’ve been on before. My first reactions to this website were, in no particular order:

Why are we celebrating unrealistic expectations of female beauty!?
How much of a sucker do you think I am to watch/do/try something just because a supermodel says so?!
What could possibly be entertaining about this thinly-veiled attempt to add depth and personality to a bunch of walking clothes hangers?
Where can I find one of those pictures with Kate Moss all coked out?
Wow, this is like a reality TV show, but with less of a plot, if that’s even possible.

However, the truth is, I just like this website. I like watching models talk about stuff. There’s a video here of a supermodel giving a lesson on how to walk in high-heels, and she’s got her little tiny daughters running around in size 10 designer stilettos. It’s adorable and horrifying at the same time.

I also added one on fonts, all types of fonts (pun intended!) I thought this tied in nicely to our WORD category, and I think you share my appreciation of a nice font. (And speaking of banned lists, my friend Duncan and I nearly banned this great restaurant in SB because the font on their menu was completely unreadable. Businesspeople really need to be aware of that kind of thing, I don’t know why some of them are so dense.)

At first review, this website showcases some nice fonts; after a few minutes of browsing, you start to get an idea of the admirable degree of obsession going one here. This person’s office has font clippings covering every inch of wall space, they cannot hold down a job because they kept yelling at co-workers when the signature and body fonts in their emails were mis-matched, they have not been able to drive since their license expired and they cannot fill out the driver’s license renewal form because the DMV has no respect for fonts, and the mere sight of Curlz makes their eyeball twitch. You should especially check out the Sunday napkin fonts – real art. I am inspired to buy some paper napkins and draw on them. I will do that, and save them for a dinner party we will have someday.

I linked this image to the creator's website...where on earth does .ua reside?