fonts
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Watch An Adorable Toddler Instantly Identify Fonts
I learned two things while watching this aww-inducing video. Scarlett, the cute two-year-old girl in the video, is a genius child with an eagle eye for instantly recognising typefaces better than most humans and that it’s going to be awesome to be a parent because you can teach your kid whatever the heck you want…
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Where The Dollar Sign Comes From
This symbol first showed up in the 1770s, appearing in documents of English-Americans who had business dealings with Spanish-Americans. However, it wasn’t until the very early 1800s that it became popularised, around the same time as the first official US dollars were being minted. Previous to this, the symbol had already been in use as…
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Nine Crazy 3D Typefaces Made From Everyday Objects
Whether we realise it or not, the fonts we interact with on a daily basis can be wildly impactful in some pretty surprising ways. But these everyday fonts blend in so seamlessly with the world around us that we hardly even notice them. So what would happen if we tried blending our world into the…
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An Intricate Typeface Made Out Of History’s Greatest Inventions
When she was a design student, Khyati Trehan embarked on an ambitious project to highlight history’s 26 most influential inventors with a unique alphabet. Remarkably, each letter of the special typeface is drawn with a world-changing invention while also name-checking the inventor. The letter “E,” for instance, is represented by the phonograph invented by Edison.