Check out his machine-animals and don’t miss the meatscapes, as above.
You gotta love canned-meat typography.
Great idea. The site looks like it just started. There’s not much content up yet but I love the idea of using stencils and mud to make non-destructive graffiti. Mudstencils.com
It’s free and open source. It will export vectors for $10. Interesting.
The type below benefits from hinting, which keeps strokes from getting too thick as well as emphasizing key characteristics.
Here’s an interesting read from the Wikipedia: Font Rasterization which discusses how type is rasterized for on screen viewing. One interesting issue will be familiar to people who have done the Icon Project in Image Manipulation:
A more complicated approach is to use standard anti-aliasing techniques from computer graphics. This can be thought of as determining, for each pixel, how much of that pixel is occupied by the letter, and drawing that pixel with that degree of opacity. For example, when drawing a black letter on a white background, if a pixel ideally should be half filled (perhaps by a diagonal line from corner to corner) it would be drawn in 50% gray. Simple application of this procedure can lead to somewhat blurry glyphs: for example, if the letter includes a vertical line which should be one pixel wide but falls exactly between two pixels, it will appear on screen as a two-pixel-wide gray line. This blurriness is a tradeoff of clarity for accuracy. However, modern systems often force lines to fall within integral pixel coordinates, which makes the glyphs look sharper, but also makes the lines slightly wider or thinner than they would have looked on a printed sheet of paper.
This article is written specifically with computer application icons in mind but I think the most of these rules apply more broadly to icons in general. Good stuff!
more great diagrams from Lunchbreath
This is crazy old but totally high quality laughs. There’s actually some useful techniques hidden here and there in this series, but mostly it’s just funny. The one with the cat above is my favorite :)