Our beloved fellow Canadian Ryan Gosling hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live recently and his sketch about a man being outraged over Papyrus as the main font used in Avatar is absolutely hilarious. Click to watch the skit.
Between Comic Sans, Lucida Handwriting, Brush Script and Papyrus, the later one takes the crown for being the most questionably overused font out there. In fact, this font is so globally hated by designers that there is a hilarious anti-Papyrus blog running around online. Check it out here.
Oh Ryan, we feel your pain.
We’re proud to announce the launch of our latest typography project, Tealeaf – a display typeface designed and executed by yours truly. Tealeaf was inspired by the beauty of organic flowing lines found in nature. The typeface comes in two styles: Outline, and Fill. These styles can be used together or alone to create elegant prints, quotes, headers and more! This set contains only the uppercase vector, outlined alphabet contained in a ready-to-use .EPS file. Also included in the download zip are the license agreement and examples of this font in use to kick-start your inspiration. We hope you have as much fun using this typeface as we had making it! Simply like us on Facebook or tweet about Tealeaf on Twitter, and your download will start automatically. Use #tealeaf to show us your creations. We’d love to see what you can do!
Check it out in our portfolio, here.
Ever wish you had an app similar to Shazam but for fonts? Fellow colleagues and friends, our designer dreams have come true! For her graduating project, designer Fiona O’Leary from the Royal College of Art developed Spector, a small and practical tool that can possibly identify any font and color seen in the real world.
The tool is described as easy to use. By pressing the button on top after you’ve placed the tool over a printed surface with your inquired typeface, a photograph is taken and an algorithm runs to identify the typeface, size, kerning/leading, along with the CMYK or RGB values.
Design Is Yummy is proud to announce our recent collaboration with the Segal Centre for Performing Arts on their 2016-2017 campaign.
Last Wednesday night we were out in full force at their packed season launch party announcing their upcoming productions.
We were excited to see our custom type treatments and illustrations projected on the big screen to such a warm reception? Look out for the new graphics that will grace the centre’s brochures, program books, posters, building signs and advertising throughout the city in the coming months.
We can’t wait to check out all the shows- with such a passionate, hard working and talented group, they’re no doubt going to be incredible! Congrats to our clients on such a successful evening! Call (514) 739-7944 to subscribe to their upcoming season’s productions. Click here to read more about the project and see more details of the artwork.
We love sweets. We love typography. Put them together, and our mouths are watering. Franc Navarro and Alberto Martinez, both students from the IED Barcelona Design School, collaborated on this project to explore typographic design with minimal post production and liquids. Their end result – a honey dipped alphabet, made from layers of wood, and honey.
The letters were first drafted in Rhinoceros, and developed in 123D Make. Each letter was then laser cut from wooden sheets.
Each letter was suspended in the air, and photographed with a generous drizzle of honey.
As a company founded by a female entrepreneur, we were thrilled to partner up with Artistri Sud– a non-profit organization based in Montreal with a strong focus on empowering women artisans in developing countries. With the collaboration of local communities, Artistri Sud helps women access global markets to sell their handcrafted goods and create a sustainable income to better themselves and the people surrounding them. In order to raise funds, Artistri Sud organized the upcoming event “Tales of Triumph” where inspiring women share their stories of empowerment and success. For the year of 2016, Design is Yummy was honoured to donate our time to create this powerful typographic invitation and web graphics with the hopes of raising attention and awareness to such wonderful cause.
It’s campaign season and the Liberal Party recently unveiled its new tour bus.
While we dig the overall design and messaging, if you look closely, you’ll notice that something is not quite right.
This is how the text was meant to display:
In the bus wrapping, the font for “CHANGE” has been replaced with MyriadPro. This is the default font Adobe uses when a file contains a non-installed font. The replacement font gives the impression of odd kerning (those gaps between the letters). The best way to avoid this mistake is to convert text to outlines (shapes rather than letters) in the final artwork, which only takes two clicks.
It’s time for real change…real change of your designer.
Bus-ted.
Because sometimes you have to work with what you’ve got and play a little. Hand-letterer Ian Bernard illustrates fun and quirky calligraphy using only veggies and ink. [via Designtaxi.com]
Type based animation for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac created using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere and Toon Boom Animate.
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Ampersand type illustrations by Dan Beckemeyer.