trend intypography

[atisha]

hi! every1. I have an assignment and it's proposal is on monday.It is abt 'Research n Referencing module'. I want to do on the current trend in typography. I have noticed in todays typography there r no. involved like eg. 7up, se7en,gr8 etc.i dun know wot is the term to define this n cldn't find it in web. Can any1 help or suggrest me some other topic in typography..

[morea]

I think that the term you are looking for would be "leet" or "text speak". It's not really a professional practice.

Grunge text is trendy, if you want to look into that. It's also often overdone.

[Craig B]

Well, that's sort of like "leet speak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L33t)" ... but might not be right. It might be a good starting point though.

[carter the artist]

I remember the good ole' days of typography, where people really spelled out what they were trying to communicate and not making up a different way of spelling that can confuse the pancake out of others.

[Typically]

oh i thought that they were limiting the number of vowels you could post on the forum

[atisha]

thanks for ur replies . yeah tat was bit of help but still not exactly wot i m looking for. is there any intresting topic i can do research abt in typography??

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Carter .. I still don't know what they are saying 99% of the time.

[atisha]

it's so hard to do research in this topic so i m gonna chg it to graffiti. any suggestion for this tropic? any book for reference or web site???

[Typically]

go to your local interstate =] clicky (http://www.12ozprophet.com/) check out this site lots and lots of stuff on graff

[Quirk]

have you thought about the "hand made" movement in typography? sagmeister did a series of typography experiements that I thought are amazing IMO.

[budafist]

That would be what I call text speak. Not quite leet speak.

Language isn't the same as typography.

Example, you can write in a style of an old Englishman, but it doesn't mean the font you have used is an Old English style font.