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Fremdwort [fremt'voart]: n, (German) foreign, or strange word used to impress peers, adversaries, or potential mates

Had a great laugh with this website this morning, if you can pronounce them how can you go with words like entschlossene Herzenswunscherfüllungsarbeit (determined heart’s desire granting work), and Stolzbefleckte Schadenreue (pride-bespeckled damage remorse).

Fontplore Table

This sort of system would be so useful while selecting fonts, especially when you’re collaborating with other designers or working with clients. I’d love to get my hands on one for an afternoon!

Clickable Colors

Using the top blogs, design, game, and global sites listed by Alexa and Technorati, design studio ANTREP04 have created posters showing the dominant colours used in an effort to answer the question: What is the colour of the internet?

Greens & yellows dominate game sites, reds & pinks on blogs, globally blues are the most used colours, & design sites? Greys & neutrals :)

TypeDNA – FontShaker

1. Visually browse and discover fonts installed on this computer
2. Choose installed fonts as a reference in finding similar fonts
3. Save / Share comments, tags & ratings of fonts you have installed
4. Share comments, tags & rate fonts available commercially
5. Sort your fonts by different criteria and see how other community members rate your fonts
6. Browse random commercial fonts and find similar
7. Select fonts you like and open them directly in Adobe Photoshop
8. Feed comments, rating and samples back into the TypeDNA font manager

I love apps like this :) Unfortunately a large number of my fonts are true type because it only displays the open type fonts you have installed on your machine, but still fun to play around with. This is potentially a very useful tool.

I’m especially interested in the option to browse random commercial fonts & also the ability to find similar commercial fonts to those you have installed. So often these sort of *display similar* font finders are more miss than hit, but you never know where you’re going to stumble over your new favourite type :)

Information Architects Web Trend Map 4

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