Peter Kaminski » Graphic Design

Flip Your Text Upside-Down

pete — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:34:56 +0000

You’ve probably seen this somewhere: ʇxǝʇ uʍop-ǝpısdn – upside-down text, rendered using carefully-chosen Unicode characters.

There are a number of web sites that will flip your text, but I wanted to point out the original: David Faden’s Flip. David got the idea from Philip Newton’s post, ¿ʇı̣ əsnqɐ ʇ,uɐɔ noʎ ɟı̣ əpoɔı̣un sı̣ pooɓ ʇɐɥʍ. Philip in turn credits the idea to Mark Shoulson and his post to the qalam group.

FileFormat.info has extended the mapping to include upper-case letters and some numbers: Unicode Upside-Down Mapping, which Marcel Grünauer included in Perl’s Text::UpsideDown.

Drawing Eyes – From Any Angle

pete — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:55:20 +0000

If you’re drawing a face at an angle, it won’t look right unless the eyes are drawn well.

With Tento’s Eye Angle Library, Amy Reeder Hadley has created a reference chart of eyes sketched from 30 different angles, along with an in-depth description of the subtleties of the eye’s appearance in each view.

Tools for Color-Blind Web Accessibility Testing

pete — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:47:18 +0000

VischeckPS, a Photoshop filter for simulating a color-blind view of an image.

Color-blind color palettes to load in Photoshop to simulate a color-blind view of an image.

Graphic Design: US Road Signs

pete — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:12:31 +0000

How to make US traffic signs…

A comprehensive unofficial Manual of Traffic Signs

Highway Road Signs, US and other countries

Roadgeek fonts – free/noncommercial

Highway Gothic fonts – commercial

Shields Up! – online highway route sign generator

The official Federal Highway Administration’s Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

tag: graphic design
tag: roads
tag: traffic
tag: signs
tag: fonts

Atmospheric Artistry

pete — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:56:19 +0000

Great article by Jaime Jasso about making his ethereal image, Spiritual City:

Spiritual City by Jaime Jasso (detail)

70 found images off the web, and lots of creative compositing and detail painting!

Font-watching at Disney

pete — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:18:38 +0000

I don’t know if this appeals more to the font geek in me or the guy that likes random lists of arcana, but here’s a Disney font list, “an incomplete listing of typefaces seen at Walt Disney World, etc.”

Incomplete, maybe, but still not short.

via geekgrrl.com