Hi, I’m Daniel and 6picas is my design agency where we help businesses and individuals find their brand’s voice by utilizing a human-centered design process reaching innovative solutions.
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Daniel Alt
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Human-centered UX, UI, and type designer focused on the hierarchy of information and a content-first approach.
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What's The Point?
General Musings on Typography & Type Design
Crossbar
Now that the website is back up (happy New Year to you as well support staff thanks for the hard work), I wanted to round the year out on a small, but important aspect of typography — crossbars. A crossbar…
Jan 01, 2014Numerals
It’s been too long! But today, we will be talking about numerals and the two different types of numerals. The two types are called by many different names, but most commonly known as Lining and Old-Style numerals. Lining Numerals Lining…
Dec 18, 2013Strokes and Stems
Strokes and stems, strokes and stems, gotta have me some strokes and stems. In my type that is… And that is what we will be talking about today. Let us start off talking about stems. Stem In typography, a stem…
Oct 12, 2013The Eyes have it.
Like our biological eyes, typographic eyes come in all shapes and sizes and color (think paper color)! In typography, an eye is a special counter reserved for the lowercase e. There is something special about the lowercase e and why…
Oct 10, 2013Terminals
Now arriving at the Terminal. It is now okay to use approved typographic devices. Terminals, in typography, are the finishing element to a stroke that does not contain a serif. There are a few different types of terminals such as: ball…
Sep 09, 2013Counters
It’s been a few weeks since my last post, but I want to get back on top of it, so here we go! Today we are diving right into counters. In typography, counters are the partially or fully enclosed space…
Aug 16, 2013Get in touch
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