When my October issue of Creating Keepsakes arrive yesterday and I recovered from the-year-is-going-to-fast shock, I cracked it open and saw an article by Ali Edwards listing several very helpful websites for scrapbookers. Boy is this woman after my heart.
First she directed me to a great site for organizing my digital photos. Yeah! I needed that. Then she shared another site about working with color. Both of which are great and you should grab your CK and read about them. (I won’t steal all her thunder…)
The site she shared next made my heart sing.
A site all about typography. Not a place to download fonts, but a place to learn about them - in great detail. Oh my.
If you are a regular reader of ScrappinCabinet you know I don’t use computer fonts when creating my layouts. So why all the fuss? Well, in the early days of my career I was a desktop publisher. I created newsletters, brochures, postcards and other marketing materials for small businesses. This was in the “good old days” of computers (and awesome 80s music =:). My first system cost me $2500 and had a 40 meg - not gig, meg - hard drive.
My first font collection was a set of disks - the old 5 1/4″ ones, remember those?
I also bought several design books to learn how to create professional looking materials. And I got a big fat book all about type. It wasn’t enough for me to just experiment to see what looked good. I wanted to know the ins and outs of each typeface. I still have that book and from time to time crack it open to warm my heart with knowledge of the fonts. When my business partner and I merged and hired employees I was diligent about everyone using the same font for all our company materials and become known at the office as “The Font Police.”
Anyway, if you are a typface aficionado too you will also really enjoy Thinking With Type, the site Ali recommends in her article.
Enjoy, courtesy of The Font Police - and Ali Edwards =:)
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August 30th, 2005 at 10:09 am - Edit
I have know Kim for a god mamyh years. In fact, I hired her to do desktop publishing for my business by in the late 80’s. She taught me a lot about fonts and how to be consistent in using them. Before she educated me I was all over the board. I would use 5 or 6 type faces in one simple flyer. She always managed to make my mess look fantastic. What I learned from her back then I have been able to apply to my scrapbooking efforts.