Jessica Hische
jessicahische.is · Personal blog · on HN since 2011
Jessica Hische, a letterer and designer, writes about typography, logo design, pricing, and freelance work.
What HN saysHN commenters point to her MailChimp logo revision as a solid brand update and enjoy her work and playful URLs; the font discussion is about time-consuming type design.
24HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Revising MailChimp's logo4 people · 220 points · first shared 2013 · 64 comments on HN
- 2Upping Your Type Game3 people · 9 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 3A designer created this awesome tool to help you say no to free work3 people · 8 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 4The Dark Art of Pricing2 people · 70 points · first shared 2011 · 23 comments on HN
- 5Thinkingthoughts2 people · first shared 2013
- 6Non-Creepy Networking: Party Etiquette1 people · 111 points · first shared 2013 · 67 comments on HN
- 7Inspiration vs. Imitation1 people · 69 points · first shared 2011 · 4 comments on HN
- 8The Dark Art of Pricing1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 9The Dark Art of Pricing1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10Productivity Quest: Ultra-Schedule1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 11The Dark Art of Pricing1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12I am not a web designer.1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Awesome1 people · first shared 2013
- 14Homepage1 people · first shared 2015
- 15Anaaaaarrrrrrrrtist1 people · first shared 2013
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jongold · 2013-07-24
For a good font—not some crap on DaFont—you're talking many, many thousands of hours. Often just one person's labour, often by eye. Software makes it a little bit easier, but you're still kerning every single possible character combination by eye, and you're still redrawing glyphs at every possible size to make sure they don't render like shit.
There are lots of dinosaurs in typography—Linotype etc—but the best studios are tiny. Some great links to great studios here: http://jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughts
bonzoesc · 2013-07-12
"http://jessicahische.is/monkeyingaround" has got to be the best URL I've seen in a long time.
ryanSrich · 2015-02-28
Sure thing (note: some of these are consulting firms vs. agencies - which are really just scaled versions of consultants vs. freelancers):
- consulting: http://www.nngroup.com/
- agency: http://www.akqa.com/
- consulting: http://www.cooper.com/
- agency: http://www.elpassion.com/
- consultant: http://andrewhinton.com/
- consultant: http://jessicahische.is/
- freelancer: http://www.danielaa.me/
- freelancer: http://owltastic.com/
You'll see with the examples above that both the agencies (freelancers) and consulting firms (consultants) offer similar services. However the consultants are mostly focused on a small set of skills (research, UX, etc.) whereas the agencies keep it broader.
stevewillows · 2013-09-04
Most of their submissions looked like they were done in the same afternoon using a shitty torrent of 'hot fonts' from the pirate bay.
When we talk about updating a brand, one of the most recent examples of solid execution was mail chimp.
http://jessicahische.is/monkeyingaround
codegeek · 2013-07-12
the contents the 404 page is also funny
http://jessicahische.is/404
mortenjorck · 2013-07-12
It's not just a URL; it's a whole URL scheme!
Home page: http://jessicahische.is/awesome
Blog: http://jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughts
About page: http://jessicahische.is/anoversharer
jffry · 2013-07-12
Why not link directly to her site?
http://jessicahische.is/monkeyingaround
The blog you linked to (and you seem to link to it a lot) simply excerpted some of the text from her site, and then included some of the images (but not all) from her blog.
At least that post's author had the decency to re-host the images and put a source link at the bottom.
zivins · 2013-07-12
There are plenty of gems in her work. Here goes the last hour of work...
http://jessicahische.is/rememberingherlisafranktrapperkeeper
http://jessicahische.is/anaaaaarrrrrrrrtist
http://jessicahische.is/illustratingpenguinsinbathingsuits
http://jessicahische.is/eatingcornflakesforbreakfast
cschmidt · 2011-04-26
Some of the design blogs or websites I follow:
http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/
http://blog.frankchimero.com/
http://typographica.org/
http://ilovetypography.com/
http://ministryoftype.co.uk/
http://www.typography.com/ask/?path=foot
http://fortheloveoftype.blogspot.com/
http://www.jessicahische.is/obsessedwiththeinternet/
http://lydianichols.blogspot.com/
http://www.swiss-miss.com/