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I always love these kind of photos on your blog…
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Thanks, Memm.
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I enjoy these photos too. As someone who is also interested in information graphics and engineering drawing I am very fond of arrows, brackets, callouts etc. – Did you use the font Myriad?
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Thanks, Gunther. Yes, I used the Myriad Pro family. The brackets were done (very quickly) in Illustrator, by making non-filled rectangles then masking one side with an opaque white rectangle.
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Thank you for these details. – I have asked about the Myriad since this is one of my favourite fonts. (About 12 years ago I have bought a license for the Multiple Master version. Although this technology has been discontinued long ago I find it still fascinating.)
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Multiple Master fonts — all of that work and they hardly had any time to enjoy themselves. 🙂
Something you might enjoy reading. It’s called Letter Spirit, and it has to do with how we perceive and understand letterforms. For example, if we write lowercase “a” many times but gradually open up the top until it becomes a “u”, at what point does it stop being an “a”? Is there such a thing as “a-ness” or “u-ness”? Do such things follow the letter of the law, or the spirit of the law? Or is there a spirit to the letter?
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Indeed 🙂
Thank you very much for the link to “Letter Spirit” – how exciting! I always marvel at the fact that we are able to recognize e. g. the “A” – even it it is distorted, damaged or otherwise altered – although there is no standard “A” that serves as a reference or allows for calibration (so to speak). And how do children learn the concept of “A”? Yes, I like the idea of “a-ness” – maybe all these “A’s” are typifications of “a-ness” but since we are able to think in a stochastic way we are capable of grasping it.
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