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Tag: Typography

Type Love 105: St. Ryde

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
St Ryde, a “casual and modern sans serif”, is the latest release from Stereotypes. And it’s available for purchase from My Fonts rig...
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With Love

Courtney • Aug 16, 2010
Who doesn’t love an ampersand? I’d love to see this gift series by Scott Marc Berry developed into a line of t-shirts too....
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Type Love 104: Arbor

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Arbor created by Village founder Chester Jenkins. Originally designed for the New York Time’s Magazines’s 2008 Hollywood issue, the entire...
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Forza

Courtney • Aug 04, 2010
HF&J has done it again. Meet Forza. I also love these little design snippets they create to show how their typefaces pair together:...
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Typography in Water

Courtney • Aug 02, 2010
You Work for Them recently decided to have a little fun with their typefaces by submerging them in water, and here are the results. If you like what y...
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Type Love 102: Titillation

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Titillation is a round and narrow sans serif by Suomi Type Foundry....
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Type Love 101: LaSalle

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
LaSalle is an expressive, vintagey script by Filmotype....
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J. Chris Schwartz

Courtney • Jul 05, 2010
I don’t have a whole lot of context on this project for Carver’s by J. Chris Schwartz, but I am definitely loving the combination of in-yo...
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Type Love 100: Ibis Display

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
First, I have to stop for a second and recognize that this is the 100th Type Love post! How that is possible is beyond me—the last 100 weeks have co...
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Type Love 99: Rum Black

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Rum Black was actually a winner of the 2010 TDC competition. The hefty display face was created by Royal Academy of Arts Type & Media grad Trine R...
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Type Love 98: St Marie

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This love-at-first-sight serif typeface is the in-progress St Marie from Sterotypes. Unfortunately there is not much information on an approximate rel...
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Type Love 97: Engel New Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Engel New Sans (an updated version of the original Engel Sans, one of Gestalten’s best sellers) s a clean modern sans serif with interesting qui...
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Type Love 96: Aniuk

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Aniuk is a new display family from Typejockeys featuring a unique combination of round and edgy details. Meant for large sizes, the family includes fi...
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Type Love 95: Klavika

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Klavika is yet another one of Process Type Foundry’s modern, versatile typefaces. It was designed in 2004, but still looks just as fresh today, ...
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Type Love 94: Amboy

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Amboy is another one of Jim Parkinson’s creations. The inline display face was inspired by Mid-20th Century Showcard Lettering....
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Hyperactivity Typography

Courtney • May 18, 2010
Unfortunately, the first print run of the Hyperactivity Typography workbook, an ambitious project by Studio3, is all sold out. So until they (hopefull...
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Type Love 93: Sutro

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Sutro is a very structured slab serif designed by Jim Parkinson in 2003. You can pick up the package of 11 fonts at FontShop right here....
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Oh Hi

Courtney • May 04, 2010
I’m loving these embroidered, typographic canvases by Laura Belle of Oh Hi. She also has a great blog that I just added to my Google reader, che...
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Type Love 92: Hernandez

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Sudtipos recently released three new slab serif fonts. My favorite is Hernandez, a “slab serif display” with a wide range of alternates to...
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SketchType Vol. 2

Courtney • May 04, 2010
I posted about T.26’s SketchType package awhile back, and now they’ve just released Volume 2. The set includes 20 original hand-drawn type...
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Watercolor Typography

Courtney • Apr 26, 2010
Watercolor Typography, just one of the illustrative works in the portfolio of Sasha Prood....
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Type Love 91: Darjeeling

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Darjeeling, a new release from You Work for Them, was designed by FaceType. With it’s various styles and library of ornaments, Darjeeling can go...
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Yani Arabena

Courtney • Nov 22, 2010
I’m absolutely loving this calligraphic styling of Yani Arabena, including this particular project created for Hobby Studio. It’s a treat ...
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Type Love 90: Kina

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Incubator is Village’shome for contemporary releases from young designers. There are a few in development that promise to be available this year...
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I Love Dust

Courtney • Apr 18, 2010
I’m loving these three-dimensional typographic experiments by I Love Dust....
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Type Love 89: Wolfsburg, Militia, Mercado

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Even though I rarely get to use them, I’ve been really into stencil fonts lately. And You Work for Them has quite a variety of inexpensive, inte...
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Type Love 88: Margarita

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Loving the voluptuous curves  and thick-thin contrast of Margarita‘s letterforms. The display face, created by Pampa Type, is available for pur...
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Type Love 87: Lodgecode

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Lodgecode, the first release from the Look Partnership’s Tonalcase collection, is a single weight geometric sans. Designed by Jeff Warrington th...
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Type Love 86: Eames Century Modern

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I’m cheering on House Industries for their latest and greatest release (and the newest addition to my typographic wishlist). In their own words:...
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Type Love 85: Farnham

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Farnham is a typeface that was designed by Christian Schwartz for Font Bureau in 2004. The confident serif was based on the work of “Johannes Fl...
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Jeanie & Jewell: { abc…c’est finis! }

Courtney • Mar 14, 2010
I’m excited to share that the Jeannie & Jewel alphabet I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, is officially completed! Soon they wi...
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Type Love 84: Sans Merci

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This week I’m liking the display face, Sans Merci, “an incisive font for sharp words”, by SMeltery....
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Alphabattle 2.0

Courtney • Mar 09, 2010
If you have been keeping up with Lettercult at all, you may already be aware of the Alphabattle currently going on over there. Not exactly a battle pe...
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Type Love 83: Giorgio Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Giorgio Sans is quite the character. Designed by Schwartzco as a quirky companion to their popular serif, Giorgio, the typface features six weights an...
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Verdun

Courtney • Dec 21, 2010
Verdun is the result of a collaboration between Mind Design and Rafael Farias.The work in progress is a modern take on Morris Fuller Benton’s ty...
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Type Love 82: Adelle

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Adelle is a modern slab serif by Type Together. It was created with editorial use in mind, but I think it’s versatile enough to use in a whole s...
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In Other Words

Courtney • Feb 22, 2010
In Other Words is a self-initiated project from student Patrycja Zywert. The primary goal of the was to explore the effects of textspeak on human lang...
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Type Love 81: Graphik

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Helvetica is one of those polarizing typefaces—most people either love it or hate it, no in between. If you’re on the more negative side of th...
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Type Love 80: CamingoDos

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
CamingoDos is a squarish, modern sans serif available at FontShop....
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Type Love 79: Arctic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Arctic is a headline family created by German designer Henning Skibbe. Interestingly enough, his background is in graffiti, which as you can see infor...
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Type Love 78: Cooper Italic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I love all the swashes and perfect imperfectness of each letterform that makes up Cooper Italic. Not to mention it’s a steal at only $30....
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Type Love 77: Fluidum

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Apparently Fluidum has been around for quite some time, but it is a new discovery for me. Beautiful lines....
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Alphabet Complete

Courtney • Jan 17, 2010
I introduced you to Jeannie and Jewell’s illustrated letterforms a little while ago; and now the alphabet is almost complete. I especially love ...
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Type Love 76: Stag Dot

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
A few times I’ve attempted to create clean crisp dotted type on my own, to no avail.  Stag Dot to the rescue....
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Type Love 75: 2009 Top 10

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I always look forward to the typographic “best of” posts each year, so I thought I’d do a rundown of my favorites. I don’t cla...
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Enamel Alphabet

Courtney • Jan 06, 2010
Another item which I’m late in the game to discover, a series of letter and number plaques made of vitreous enamel that make up the Enamel Alpha...
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All New Village

Courtney • Jan 04, 2010
One of my favorite places to buy type, Village, has a brand new home. With the launch they’ve also introduced a new foundry, Type Supply. In par...
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Type Love 74: Home Run

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Home Run is a set of two bold companion scripts by master typographer Doyald Young. One of the cool things about the pair is that you have the ability...
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Quick Links. Take Two.

Courtney • Dec 14, 2009
I realized I left out a few things I wanted to point out, so here is a second edition of Quick Links for the week. Enjoy! Dylan from OK Great, has sta...
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Type Love 73: Geogrotesque Stencil

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
One new typeface I am determined to find a use for is Geogrotesque Stencil, a new release from Emtype. The suite of 3 styles and 7 weights is now avai...
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New from Jessica Hische

Courtney • Dec 08, 2009
The lovely Jessica Hische has a brand new site! She not only has plenty of new work to share, but also has a whole slew of prints available for sale i...
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Wearing Whitman’s Words

Courtney • Dec 06, 2009
The Gift Guide postings last week took up quite a bit of time, so unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to post about Wearing Whitman’s Word...
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Gift Gude 2009: Typography

Courtney • Nov 30, 2009
1. Push Your Luck Postcard Series, Approx. $24.00 / 2. Empire Letters, $10.00 / 3. Photolettering Blocks, $35.00 / 4. Flocked Letter Cushion, $135.00 ...
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Type Love 72: Sun

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This versatile sans serif, Sun, a family including 14 styles, is available from Lucas Fonts....
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Truly Deeply

Courtney • Nov 22, 2009
I’m really liking the typogrpaphic details and color palette of this identity project by Australian design firm Truly Deeply....
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Upcoming Type

Courtney • Nov 22, 2009
The graduates of the 2009 Type and Media Program at The Hague are one talented bunch. Most of the typefaces they created as final projects are still i...
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Type Love 71: ITC Chino

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This week I’m excited by the possibilities of one of Linotype’s newest releases, the ITC Chino family. The family, designed by Hannes von ...
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Type Love 70: Encore Sans Pro

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Parachute’s Encore Sans Pro is a humanistic sans serif that suports Latin, Greek and Cyrillic texts. It comes in 11 weights, from Hairline to Ul...
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Type Love 69: Skolar

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
If nothing else, Type Together’s Skolar is a workhorse. A text serif originally designed to shine in multilingual publications, the Skolar famil...
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Type Love 68: Block Gothic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Block Gothic is available in three weights from Fontshop....
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