TypeMedia 2011 /via @alanhouser
Simon Garfield meets the people behind the typefaces and along the way learns why some fonts – like men – are from Mars and some are from Venus. From type on the high street and album covers, to the print in our homes and offices, Garfield is the font of all types of knowledge. (via Swiss Legacy – Graphic Design and Typography Blog » Just My Type, A Book About Fonts)
In one week I have gone from rough sketch to TrueType. Clumsy is more than just a beautiful typeface though, it’s a part of me. Over the last two years I have embraced my passion of sketching and returned to my DIY roots. What you see here comes from my heart and soul.
(via Kyle Steed’s Clumsy Font : You + Me + Everyone)
Why is it that when you combine 8, 10, 14 and 36 points of height something beautiful happens? In an effort to better understand this list of numbers I did that which excites any warm-blooded designer – I played with typography. (via The Typographic Scale - Retinart)
A print magazine for devotees of typography.
(via 8 Faces - a typography magazine from Elliot Jay Stocks Design Ltd.)
Garamonds will always have a place in my heart, and I jumped at the first chance to use Robert Slimbach’s labor of love which is based on the variant hand-cut type sizes by Claude Garamond. Trade Gothic remains one of my favorite typefaces, it’s sturdy as hell, mechanical, and remarkably forgiving.
(via Ideas: Designer Spotlight: Jason Santa Maria 07.06.2010 Blog | FontShop)
(via rachelmercer)
![handvetica is a manual re-drawing of helvetica condensed, with a grunge sensibility. it’s been created for the corporate image of lucca comics & games fair in 2005 and appears in ego[n] 04: unfinished. it’s peculiarity is the mixing of high readability in body text and strong character in title text. (via zetafonts | handvetica)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3ek60qRSB1qz57xqo1_500.jpg)
handvetica is a manual re-drawing of helvetica condensed, with a grunge sensibility. it’s been created for the corporate image of lucca comics & games fair in 2005 and appears in ego[n] 04: unfinished. it’s peculiarity is the mixing of high readability in body text and strong character in title text. (via zetafonts | handvetica)
Yulia Brodskaya makes elaborate typographic creations entirely out of paper. She calls them PAPERgraphicsVia Kottke
