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The League of (Extraordinary) Movable Type

I was exploring Explore GitHub when the title of Adam Stacoviak and Wynn Netherland‘s auditory offering, The Changelog Podcast, caught my eye. I saw, with great delight, that the guest of Episode 0.7.4 was Micah Rich from The League of Moveable Type speaking about open source typography.

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Typophile.com is a must-visit site for anyone fascinated with fonts.
Be sure to check out Lettercase, Micah’s minimalist font manager.
During the podcast, Micha mentioned that he was in awe of the work of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones. Go to Typography.com and you can certainly see why he’s impressed.

Fontastic Time Killer: Logoswipe

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Thanks to a post from nedwin over at Hacker News, I ~~could spend~~ have spent hours playing with Logoswipe. I read the tagline: “You don’t need a logo, you need a type face,” and I was hooked.

If you really a few hours to while away, try this: make a logoswipe and look at the resulting URL, something like http://logoswipe.com/logo/1702. Change the number at the end. Type a lower number–for example, in this case something like 1602–in its place and you’ll see logos that others have made. Fonterrific!

Enlightened Alphabet: Illuminated Letters

pic_04 dd a little razzle-dazzle to your presentations while integrating technology. How? Use beautiful illuminated letters available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License and graciously hosted at Wikimedia Commons.

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TLS Books has a stunning pdf collection of plants and animal alphabet letters. It’s a veritable abecedarian assembly of flora and fauna. By the way, here’s the (pdf) answer key to all the organisms represented in each of the letters.
Treat yourself to a (pdf) treatise on a Lesson in the Art of Illuminated Letters.
For inspiration, make sure to dive into the British Library’s Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.
Drop by Project Gutenberg and look up Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley. Bear in mind that plain text versions of the book do not contain pictures.
Use an exploration of illuminated letters as a springboard to an incredible art activity like Ken Schwab’s colorful Illumination – Calligraphy Self Portrait lesson.
Want to get students interested in collecting and cataloging new vocabulary terms? The Getty has a inspiring idea: create an illuminated alphabet word book.
For the calligraphically trendy, Retrokat Medieval notes that illumiQ, an Application for iPhone and iPod Touch, is available in the Apple App Store through iTunes.
Although it really doesn’t count as illuminated letters, Spelling with Flickr is fun.

Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley

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