April Fools

My favourite April Fools gag of the day. Ties in with my previous post on Comic Sans. Also, google "Helvetica" today and see what happens. :)

UPDATE: Apparently David Firth (or someone posing as him) is also in a jocular mood today.

Beautiful Copperplate Logos

Late 19th century copperplate prints have always been a fascination for me, the extreme attention to detail is just incomprehensible to me and creates a very distinctive and powerful aesthetic.

This link will take you to a BibliOdyssey page filled to the brim with high resolution scans of finely crafted logotype prints from this era. Revel!


(Detail from just below the capital A in the above picture:)