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Category: Typography

Type Love 21: Barricada and Comalle

Courtney • Oct 23, 2008Sep 14, 2012
I’m really loving these pillowy bold typefaces from Veer. As an added bonus, both are under $60 too. Barricada Comalle...
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Type Love 20: David Berlow

Courtney • Oct 16, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 19: Stainless

Courtney • Oct 10, 2008Sep 14, 2012
I love all the weights (especially the ultra thin and black) in this modern, somewhat techy feeling typeface from The Font Bureau. Stainless...
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Type Love 18: Volvox

Courtney • Oct 2, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 17: Rumba

Courtney • Sep 25, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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’...
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Type Love 16: Priori

Courtney • Sep 18, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 15: Device Type

Courtney • Sep 11, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 14: Fig, Stratum, Maple

Courtney • Sep 4, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 13: Odille, Restraint, Tourette

Courtney • Aug 28, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Type Love 12: Samuelstype

Courtney • Aug 21, 2008Sep 14, 2012
This week, a few selections from Samuelstype. Andrew Samuels Victoria Samuels Rosemary Samuels See their complete library here, and purchase through F...
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Type Love 11: Aerotype

Courtney • Aug 14, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 10: TypeTrust

Courtney • Jul 31, 2008Sep 14, 2012
Here are a few typefaces from TypeTrust that I’d like to get my hands on: Prelo Prelo Slab Ventura Heroic Condensed...
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Type Love 9: Village

Courtney • Jul 24, 2008Sep 14, 2012
Spotlight on village, and a couple of the typefaces they’ve released so far this year. Giorgio Stag...
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Type Love 8: YWFT

Courtney • Jul 17, 2008Sep 14, 2012
You Work For Them has some display typefaces, that would be great if you had the right project… Paul Bunyan Tapscott Flirt...
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Type Love 7: Tisa and Atma

Courtney • Jul 10, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Type Love 6: Freight and Omnes

Courtney • Jul 3, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Type Love 5: Cosmiqua Com and Loft

Courtney • Jun 26, 2008Sep 14, 2012
Here’s a couple favorites from recent FontShop newsletters: Cosmiqua Com by Linotype (reminds me a lot of Filosofia, a constant favorite of mine...
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Type Love 4: Soho and Dederon Sans

Courtney • Jun 19, 2008Sep 14, 2012
What I’m liking this week… Soho at Fontshop Dederon Sans at Suitcase Type...
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Type Love 3: Scripts

Courtney • Jun 12, 2008Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Type Love 2: Parry and Parry Grotesque

Courtney • May 30, 2008Sep 14, 2012
I subscribe to quite a few email newsletters, some of which are dedicated entirely to type. Yesterday I received the Font Shop newsletter highlighting...
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Type Love

Courtney • May 18, 2008Jul 4, 2008
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...
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