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From Joy of Tech

Great fonts: Soho

We are talking about a slab serif family and as Lester says, it took him 3 years and 3000 hours of work. It comes in 40 families 32.668 (!) characters.

It is a great, an outstanding font and it remains slick in each of its versions.

Soho Regular

This is the regular version. See the random words and notice how beautiful it is.

Text

Soho isn’t the best choice when it comes to long text, mostly because no slab serif font is suitable for such purposes. However, in small paragraphs, titles and subtitles, it is one of the best possible choices.

Soho Condensed Thin

Look at this version. Each single character is great. I particularly like the “r”, “v”, and “y”.

Numbers & Ligatures

When it comes to numbers, it is difficult to find great one in most slab serif fonts. Not here. Great old style fonts. Simple yet readable and clear ligatures. What more can you ask for?

Stylistic sets

Each differentiation from the original version looks even better. The designer focused on the details and created characters you might use in a series of different situations.

Lester says about his font:

In designing Soho I set myself the rather lofty aspiration of designing the “ultimate” slab serif. I want it to look fundamentally 21st century. I wanted it to be supremely versatile; a weight, width and “tone of voice” to meet the requirements of even the most discerning of designers.

I think he made it, didn’t he?

The only problem (which is actually a big one) with Soho is its price. The full package costs more than €1500, but I don’t think it is too much, because such fonts aim to cover the needs of magazines, newspapers etc. The rest of us who work for the Web we can sit back and enjoy it. From a distance of course.

Back with a new design

Some of the areas of the website are still empty, but I will soon take care of them, so please be patient. There are also some minor bugs, which they should definitely be ignored as well.

porcupine colors begun as a blog but it soon grew up. It never stopped being my virtual home and that’s why I love it so much. At the same time, porcupine colors is a design studio. We are a small but effective team and we aim to make a living by designing and developing websites and Web applications. This website should cover both things.

We are pretty happy because the greek website is getting popular and it remained both hospital and an agency website. We ‘d love to see this version becoming the same.

So here it is dear readers. I ‘d be very happy if you like it.

P.S. Don’t forget to subscribe to the new RSS Feed. Just click on the guy with the newspaper up and left on the page. That’s all.

It’s another vacation time

So I am going to turn off my digital life for a while and disconnect from all the things that keep me busy.

Looking back I must confess I neglected this blog once or twice and I apologize for this dear readers. You see, working as a web designer or to be more specific running a tiny design studio sucked all my time. The fact that most of my clients are greek made my focus on the greek version of my website.

Quite unexpectedly business went great. The greek version of porcupine colors gained the attention of some amazing companies. One project lead to another. This pushed me keeping it updated all the time.

Some links for your pleasure

Before I turn off my engines I ‘d like to share with you some very interesting links I gathered all this time. So here they are:

Busy vs. Productive
Love it. Each statement is so true. Read it twice.

Fuck style
Designing for the Web is not styling things. It is more like architecture than decoration. The most influential article I have read this year.

iPhone meets Lego
Legos still amaze me. iPhone is… anyway, we all know what an iPhone is. Have a look at these photos where one world meets the other.

The animal noise page
Hilarious page where you can read how people generate words according to what comes from an animal’s mouth.

Type Classification e-book
If you like typography you ‘re gonna love this.

That’s the end. I hope you all have great time wherever you stay. See you in a couple of weeks.