Category: Typography

Wood Type Impressions 2is a gigantic collection of wood type letters, numbers and ornaments. It isn’t actually a keyable typeface, but a compila...

Miniscule, a winner of the 2005 TDC certificate of excellence, is a typeface designed specifically for extremely small sizes. It is intended to be use...

Fakir by Underware...

I’m really loving these pillowy bold typefaces from Veer. As an added bonus, both are under $60 too. Barricada Comalle...

Quick sidenote: Have I really been doing this for 20 weeks? Wow. And now back to the typography… I recently came across the work of type designe...

I love all the weights (especially the ultra thin and black) in this modern, somewhat techy feeling typeface from The Font Bureau. Stainless...

Designed by Typecuts, Volvox is a complex ornamental type system involving 5 fonts that can be superimposed on top of one another in an infinite numbe...

I first caught wind of this playful display face designed by Laura Meseguer when it won a TDC2 Certificate of Excellence from the Type Director’...

I just recently received Emigre‘s latest type catalog (sign up to receive your own copy here) in the mail, which reminded me how extensive their...

This week I’m liking lots of distressed type—something I almost never use in my work, but always admire. The collections below are designed by...

Here are some favorites from Process Type Foundry, who has a small but high quality catalog. I already own a couple of them—Bryant and Locator—but...

This may not appeal to everyone, but here are a couple delicate, flourishy (I’m sure I’m making that word up) fonts with tons of feminine ...

This week, a few selections from Samuelstype. Andrew Samuels Victoria Samuels Rosemary Samuels See their complete library here, and purchase through F...

I’m really liking these chunky slab serifs—what they call Western/19th century—from Aerotype. Again, I don’t really get to use type li...

Here are a few typefaces from TypeTrust that I’d like to get my hands on: Prelo Prelo Slab Ventura Heroic Condensed...

Spotlight on village, and a couple of the typefaces they’ve released so far this year. Giorgio Stag...

You Work For Them has some display typefaces, that would be great if you had the right project… Paul Bunyan Tapscott Flirt...

FontShop does it again, with another great newsletter this week. I’m always on the lookout for a friendly text weight serif family, so here are ...

Freight Display by Joshua Darden (Love the italic forms in particular, shown below.) Omnes also by Joshua Darden (I’m especially a fan of these ...

Here’s a couple favorites from recent FontShop newsletters: Cosmiqua Com by Linotype (reminds me a lot of Filosofia, a constant favorite of mine...

What I’m liking this week… Soho at Fontshop Dederon Sans at Suitcase Type...

Just as I declared yesterday T-shirt Wednesdays, today I’m doing the same for Type Love Thursdays. Since we are smack in the middle of wedding s...

I subscribe to quite a few email newsletters, some of which are dedicated entirely to type. Yesterday I received the Font Shop newsletter highlighting...

I have a bit of an obsession with type, and as a result keep a mile-long wishlist of typefaces I’d like to buy. If money were no object, I&#8217...