Category: Typography

ITC Klepto, designed by Phil Grimshaw, is a playful yet rough-around-the-edges display face. I especially love the curves in the lowercase k (and the ...

You can pick up Pinup, a pillowy, lovable sans serif designed by Pieter van Rosmalen, from FontShop....

League, by Letterbox, is a chunky display face with interesting details....

FF Good is a clean, elegant and versatile sans serif from FontShop. (I love the lowercase G.)...

Gorgeous lines on Houschka Pro from Veer....

I know, more blackletter. But I love this more playful version—Blaktur—from House Industries....

Dark and light, thick and thin. (Couldn’t pick just one this week.) Carmen Memoriam Narziss...

My favorite part about Router, a newish release from village, are the graceful, smooth italics. For more information you can read an in-depth intervie...

When it comes to serifs, I tend to gravitate towards slabs. I like them to have a bit of heft to them, and Zócalo fits the bill. It actually reminds ...

Glosa Display...

Since Archer was released semi-recently, it can be seen everywhere (including my site). Don’t get me wrong, I love it. But I also like Jubilat a...

This week I’m loving the fun retro style of script, HT Cartoleria....

We talked about Cyrus Highsmith earlier in the week, so I figured I would feature one of his fonts. Antenna is an extremely versatile sans serif type ...

Geogrotesque is a new type family from emtype....

To commemorate the work of the legendary Alexander Girard, House Industries has recently launched a whole suite of typefaces, my favorite being the Gi...

Soiree was inspired by designer Jacqueline Yue’s three month stay in Paris, and can be purchased at T26....

Fontfabric makes some really interesting three-dimensional fonts. Cube Cubic...

Typonine is a Croatian type foundry with a small but quality offering of typefaces, including the two sophisticated serifs below. Marlene Amalia...

Cadena...

Quantico is a display face designed by Mad Type, and is available for purchase at You Work for Them and My Fonts....

This new playful and laid-back font from You Work for Them was designed by Travis Stearns and includes three different versions with varying widths. D...

Atlantik is a typeface that is made up of 213 individual wave ornaments to be used in 6 sets, providing endless design possibilities. Released by Foun...

I’ve been seeing Didoni everywhere recently, like on these awesome rejected book covers by Klas Ernflo. Love it. Update: Just wanted to point ev...

Dear Sarah Love the ink blots....

Here are a couple Shinn Type favorites: Scotch Modern   Bodoni Egyptian...

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...