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Mac Icon Typeface by CH Contributor
by Laura Neilson
Thanks to the character-inspired icons for various Mac-related applications, there's a new word-building form of entertainment to get bored workers through the doldrums of the day. Like a contemporary version of the grade school novelty of spelling out words on calculators (it actually had a name, beghilos), art director Mike Giepart's posts examples of the new "typeface."
While the technique seems too recent to have been given a common name, Vermacular sounds about right.
Check it out and add to the character-building experience on Giepart's site.
This entry posted on 02 July 2009 at
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