SOME RANDOM DUDE

I had a serious chill-out session this weekend, hence the late posting for the weekly links. It is definitely lacking in some areas, but there are still plenty of worthy links to check out.

Enjoy the links.

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I have had the deep desire to design my own font for quite some time. In fact, I still consider it to be one of the things on “the list” that I need to eventually do. While I cannot say that I have taken a full step towards that goal, perhaps I have taken a quarter of a step by creating my first pixel font. I obviously have no qualms with pixel design, but I do not hold pixel fonts even in the same remote level as traditional fonts. I can see Jan Tschichold, Paul Renner and Max Miedinger spinning in their graves at the mere mention that a pixel font would be put in the same sentence with traditional typographic design.

10 point

20 point

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A few weeks ago, Bitcons and Sanscons hit the milestone of 10,000 downloads combined. I never would have thought so many people would be interested in these icons, but I obviously was wrong. Over 33 percent of my traffic is affiliated with referrals to one of those pages and “Bitcons” is my number one search referral. I definitely do not want to be “the icon guy”, but I still thought it would be good karma to thank you for all the attention by releasing some new versions of the icons. So I have welcomed into the family Bitcons+ and Sanscons+.
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