Download Tekton, DK Ching’s Architectural Hand-Lettering Font
2 Comments | June 15th, 2008

According to Matthew Frederick, good architectural lettering adheres to several principles and techniques, that is to emphasize the beginning and end of all strokes, and overlap them slightly where they meet.
If you happened to have a really shitty handwriting, just like me, there are several ‘hand lettering like ‘ standard computer fonts that comes pre-installed [...]



Download AutoCAD Libraries of People and Animals
6 Comments | May 4th, 2008

Courtesy of reader Mariana Abib, here is another set of AutoCAD drawings, yes, those 4 little blue guys with the mushroom house are cartoon characters from the Smurfs, and according to Mariana Abib they’re three apples tall. Do email me your collection of AutoCAD drawings of animals, cars, people, furniture, and trees.
[Download AutoCAD People / [...]



Download Free AutoCAD Human Figure Library
13 Comments | December 7th, 2007

Free download of 150 Human-figure and animal AutoCAD drawing sets for architectural drawings in DWG format. If you happen to have a huge collection of these people / human figure CAD drawings, do email me. Sharing is caring. More? Visit Archiforge.com, they have a huge collection of AutoCAD human figures, and its free.
[Download AutoCAD Human [...]



Type the Sky fonts by Lisa Rienermann
1 Comment | July 29th, 2007

Sported at Designboom and Deezeen, here is a font created Lisa Rienermann while studying at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the alphabet is formed of the shapes of buildings against the sky when photographed.
This unique font is specially created for those that eat and breath architecture, it is highly recommended that all students should use it [...]



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