When Letters Aren't Letters At All: Creative Typography

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us When Letters Aren't Letters At All: Creative Typography I know that in some parts of the world there are currently water shortages, but where I am it's rain, rain, and more rain. As I say at the end of this week's featured article, if the saying April Showers Bring May Flowers holds true, we should be able to supply every florist in town with a full inventory (of wildflowers, at least) next month.  Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Expert Use Objects Not Letters in Your Type Projects Some letters are easy to replace with shapes or objects. Throw in a baseball or a Frisbee for the letter O. But what shape can stand in easily for K? If you catch a lot of the special Google artwork you'll see plenty of examples of shape and object substitutions for G, o, l, and e. Generally speaking though, you'll probably only want to do one or two substitutions at a time in your typographic compositions.  READ NOW Share Quotable Typography  Let's look at some magical, artistic, cute, and clever ways of describing typography, such as ""Most people think typography is about fonts. Most designers think typography is about fonts. Typography is more than that..." Read the rest of this quote and others. READ NOW Share What is the Best Way to Choose or Mix and Match Fonts? There is no absolute right or wrong but these guidelines can help you make better choices.  READ NOW Share Tulip Clip Art Get a virtual jump on the month of May with some flowery clip art from Dixie Allen. Did you know that there are nearly 3000 varieties of tulips? Dixie has a small representative sampling for you to decorate your next desktop publishing project. READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • Is the NSA Watching? How to Be Private Online • Track People Online Using Their Username • How To Manage Search Engines in Google Chrome (Windows) • How to Use Priority Notifications to Keep Your Android Phone from Disturbing You • Visit Your Favorite Websites In One Tap From Your iPhone Home Screen • Twitter gives users 116 extra characters for native ReTweets • Cheats, Walkthroughs and Secrets for Grand Theft Auto 3 • All About Android Wear Advertisement About Tech   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Desktop Publishing newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved