Time to celebrate! The weblog is nine years old. It actually started on an old ISP with a tilde address, and migrated to eightface a few months later. Kind of hard to believe that it’s been around for about a third of my lifetime. I never had any sort of long-term plan — at the time it just seemed really cool that you could use blogger to update your site from any browser, rather than having to rely on FTP. In other news, I’ll be starting a live redesign in the near future, it’s been awhile since I’ve done one. I liked the collage graphics in the most recent layout, but it bothers me that one of the main elements was the Morton Salt girl. Being Canadian, I had no idea that she was part of an iconic American brand. At the time, I was going for an early 1950s vibe, and it was just one image among many. Another reason for a redesign is that the overall look just doesn’t suit what I’m posting, the typography is a bit too serious. Nine years of posting has also produced a lot of legacy issues. I need to start going through my old posts to clean things up (tag the old entries, add titles and whatnot), before things get really out of hand.
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I posted to eightface.com
Happy ninth
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eightface/~3/ezygs0qQEbw/
May 8 2009, 9:05pm | Comments »
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I posted to eightface.com
Free Font Index
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eightface/~3/3BDUIuvUP3Y/
Last year, I was contacted by Hans Lijklema about including my fonts in an archive of free fonts. His Free Font Index landed on my doorstep a couple weeks ago. I just got around to posting some photos now, there are some better spread shots over at The Fell Types. What fonts you say? About ten years ago, I went on a font making kick, mostly hand-drawn stuff, and crappy erasure remixes. Some of them were drawn by my buddy Brian Stuparyk. People still download and use these in various projects, you can grab them here. They’re pretty rough and raw, no kerning, no nothing… didn’t really know what I was doing at the time. I should probably revisited the fonts and clean them up a bit. If you get the chance, you should check out the book. There’s some great work in there by talented type designers, who created much more usable typefaces. There are also some cool interviews.
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February 5 2009, 7:47pm | Comments »
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I posted to flickr.com
Type Specimen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davekellam/3257336130/
Never thought I'd label a photo of my fonts as type specimen, but there you go. Well, more like a type sample, but it's the closest it'll ever come.
Read more on eightface.com
February 5 2009, 7:08pm | Comments »
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I posted to flickr.com
Free Font Index
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davekellam/3257336098/
Last year, I was contacted by Hans Lijklema about including my fonts in an archive of free fonts. His Free Font Index landed on my doorstep a couple weeks ago. I just got around to posting some photos now.
What fonts you say? About ten years ago, I went on a font making kick, mostly hand-drawn stuff, and crappy erasure remixes. Some of them were drawn by my buddy Brian Stuparyk. People still download and use them in various projects, you can grab them at eightface.com/type. They're pretty rough and raw, no kerning, no nothing... didn't really know what I was doing. They should probably be revisited.
February 5 2009, 7:08pm | Comments »
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