In celebration of the official launch of Why Fonts Matter in the US today: Eye’s panel checked out the taste of Helvetica, Impact and Comic Sans (as cooked up by Sarah Hyndman). “Perfect. Helvetica is too serious to be sweet.” “Tastes more like Akzidenz Grotesk”, “Comic Sans deserves better”
Here at Type Tasting I’ve been having conversations about how we respond to different typefaces. Whether we’re type designers, graphic designers or nothing to do with the design industry, all of us are type consumers. We interact with typefaces constantly in our everyday lives and, although it happens on an instinctive level, when we read a word the choice of font also has an effect on us.
A day of baking edible fonts for Type Tuesday hosted by Eye Magazine at St Brides on Tuesday April 1st. I’m one of the speakers and I’ll be explaining how my edible type is all about starting conversations about typography around how different fonts evoke associations. I’ll be bringing the freshly baked biscuits with me.
Above is Futura in progress: sweet & brightly coloured cookies, coloured icing if I have time. Below are Baskerville in progress: tea infused biscuits for authentic 1700s flavour, and Helvetica in progress: plain water biscuits with a dash of rosemary & salt. If you have any ideas or comments please join the conversation with @TypeTasting on Twitter.
Tuesday 1st April 7pm- 9.30pm
Type Tasting founder Sarah Hyndman is one of the speakers at the next Type Tuesday at St Bride hosted by Eye Magazine…
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