EDAD660 (2010)

Check out this fun self-test by the Pentagram group that helps you assess your ideal font by assessing your personality traits.

http://www.pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/

PS: My type is “dot matrix”

My ideal font type as determined by Pentagram's font type analyzer

Color

Being colorblind is tough.  I can’t tell the difference between reds, greens and browns, and even some blues and purples give me trouble.  Matching colors has always been a nightmare for me, and for a long time my digital projects looked as though they were thrown together in a dark room.

Thankfully technology came to my rescue a few years back and provided me with a number of software packages that help me to compensate.  Here are two of my favorites:

1. Colr.org (http://colr.org/): Create a color scheme from any image – just upload a photo or pick on on Flickr and have the program select a color-correct palette for you!
2. Color Scheme Designer (http://colorschemedesigner.com/): Use color theory to mathematically select perfect color combinations.  Amazing!

Fonts

1. Fontifier (http://www.fontifier.com/): Fontifier lets you design your own font using a downloadable PDF template.  To use it, simply hand-write the individual letters and numbers that you would like to include in your personal font.  Scan the paper in and voila – instant font!  It costs US $9 to create a font through this tool.
2. daFont (http://www.dafont.com/): Thousands of free fonts for both Macs and PCs.
3. 1001 Free Fonts (http://www.1001freefonts.com/): The name says it all!