Comments on: Expressive words

By: Shamsuddin Hunzai

Shamsuddin Hunzai — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:34:59 +0000

I love to practice exercises like this especillay in the exhaustive occasions cause by lengthy work with least output. It is bit some cool kind of exercise coupled with thrilling joy of excitement. It was much interesting to go through such a topic.

By: kristarella.com in 2008 — kristarella.com

kristarella.com in 2008 — kristarella.com — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:08:08 +0000

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By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:14:03 +0000

Ahah, thanks johno. Learn something new everyday! Actually, I’ve learnt more than my little brain can contain about typography in recent months. It’s very cool :P

By: johno

johno — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:58:38 +0000

kristella
Yes, you’re right, the high contrast is a reference to the contrast between thick and thin strokes.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:50:45 +0000

Thanks vlad and Karly! Magic is my favourite too :)

johno, what about Baskerville and the Didones make them “high contrast”? I guess what I see in them both is fairly sharp lines and significant difference in the thickness of the lines, but I did have to Wikipedia didones to find out which ones they were. ;)

By: johno

johno — Mon, 19 May 2008 06:33:32 +0000

I think Baskerville is a good choice for “bright”. Baskerville is pretty high contrast. One of the Didones would work well too. After all, black and white and bright and dark is about contrast too.

By: Karly Barrett

Karly Barrett — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:57:33 +0000

Very nicely done. I am happy to see more people doing the exercise. My favorite is definitely magic. I love the wand—great idea!

I agree baskerville does have a very nice g.

By: vlad

vlad — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:39:55 +0000

Hi! I see you liked my word of the day idea!

I like “magic” the most. It really makes me go like “aw, why didn’t I think of that!”. Confluence is ok, though I don’t see it flowing :) Anyway, good exercise, all in all. Let’s see, where’s that RSS feed…

By: kristarella

kristarella — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:17:10 +0000

Eh hem… I guess that could be a good use of expressive words :blush:

By: sotolicious

sotolicious — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:53:42 +0000

Though I have not tried this… my first word to “play with” would have probably been…

BOOBS

and would probably make the 2 O’s rather large ;)