Hi. I remember there was a website where you can get random typeface ideas, kinda like this:
Make a flared sans serif fonts, with tall x-height, with ink traps, for a cafe in Paris. or,
Make a wide serif fonts, with low x-height, in old style, for bla bla bla etc.
So you press the "random" button and get another random brief.
The website was colorful, with big type like 100px.
I can't seem to find it anymore.
Anyone knows the website I meant?
Thanks
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Feel free to imagine briefs, but briefs that you believe the world needs.
You guys want a hypothetical brief that can push boundaries? Instead of rolling the dice until something tickles your fancy, try this: ANY NON-LATIN. Latin might be saturated enough to justify aimless wandering (especially on the diminutive island of chirography) but there's really no shortage of cultures that need *focused* attention. And if one must stick to Latin, at least don't treat it like an exercise machine with no users.
How is this site not google-able? LOL.
Thanks all!
You’re a smart guy. Make your own tool that answers the global script needs you see in the type world!
Students are impressionable* and the tools we give them should implant a respect for end-users (from all cultures) more than for their personal desire to create things. An inspiring brief comes from a societal need; to me randomness cannot be inspiring.
* https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/51881/#Comment_51881
I got high contrast speedball a couple days ago.
That tool teaches you the rules but at the same time it put a limit into your head. Becouse you learn to think that those are the sacred rules and put you in a confort zone that limits your capity of seeing he wonderfull invisivible caos that also goes into the shape or each letter. It makes you blind to the whole magic that creates LIve into an alphabet created fron dead points and lines.
The tool fiix ypur head into the "average human population" view of type, and you will become blind to all the crazy caotical and magical part that goes into injecting live into your shit.
Imagine if you ever need to design type for non-humans!!! Thats is my dream!! It suddenly makes designing non-latin a super easy task, just like that.
You need you head as caothic and crazy and limitless as posible. Drugs are good for fine tunning your brain and sences into states that your body was not designed for. You need to manage all the new information whitout getting crazy, paranoic or whatever. You need to grow you creazines and to keeping it under control at the same time. So you can enjoy it insyead on having panic.
Controling you panic, diggesting, acepting and adapting to a huge flow of really unexplicable new information its a magical progress.its not really inexplicable at all. But you feel its inexplicable and you think you are getring crazy. Just becouse your way to thing about life was tricked and limited in the first place.
Limits are good for 99.9999 of all.
It keep good thibgs things working without exploding.
But your brain can not be limited if you call yourself a creator insteaf of just an academmic desigers. Your thinking neer to be free and Nature will put the limits for you.
Basically, to make short short
The tool diggest the needs of the brief into easy chunks so you can diggest it whiout gettingi into panic. It thinks you are average population and too stupid for a real brief.
All that is true. But also not true at same tine.
Becouse the true value of the untility is the capacity to quickly generate briefs for student to practice. Hrant is evaluating the tool for the of the briefs theyself. Since he is just as picky as most of you. Its only that he points in the oposite direction making you all crazy hahq i love it
Hrant.. yoju can suggest the tool again my freen. Briefs are compartimentrized true. But generating lots of brief one by one by hand only for practicing badic drawing skills is a pain in the ass and the tool is great for that
It's still a good tool to practice drawing, imagining and flexing my art muscle.
Maybe we need a better tool?
How about a website where people can submit typeface ideas?
Can a type designer design a non-Latin type even if they don't speak the language?