#typography

#typography

While I'm not typically a fan of minimalist design, some brands call for stripped-back branding, and one company that's nailing the aesthetic is Blank Street. A Gen Z favourite, the laidback highstreet coffee store knows its customers to a tee, championing chic, lowkey vibes with a deliciously Instagrammable aesthetic. Recently unveiling its slick new rebrand, Blank Street reestablishes itself as a global lifestyle brand, owning its identity as a cult favourite.

This week it's the 70th birthday of the Guinness Book of Records, that gloriously bonkers compendium of human achievement that celebrates the people who can stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth, balance the most spoons on their body, and hula hoop underwater for the longest time. It features everything from standard athletic victories to "most high fives in 30 seconds" and "fastest time to make a pasta necklace."

Douglas Hofstadter is possibly best known for coining the term ambigram in 1983. An ambigram can be read in more than one way, commonly exhibiting left-right mirror symmetry or 180-degree rotational symmetry.

I started the Type Worship blog back in 2011...a place to collect examples of the type and lettering that inspired me, along with my own notes and commentary.

Tailwind's Typography plugin transforms unstyled HTML into clean typography using a single utility class, enhancing readability for content-rich UIs.

The marble tomb reflects Pope Francis's simple style and fulfills his desire for an unadorned final resting place, with the lettering presenting an unexpected kerning issue.

Crystal Reed's journey into pebble art began with a simple love for rocks and a desire to create unique letterforms for educational purposes.