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Tag: Typography

Mrs. Eaves Has a Mate

Courtney • Oct 22, 2009
Meet Mr. Eaves, available in two styles, Sans and Modern. via Quipsologies...
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Type Love 67: St. Atmos

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
St. Atmos is a bubbly and playful display face by Stereotypes....
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Type Love 66: Ingeborg

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Created by Typejockeys, Ingeborg is a contemporary typeface with historic roots. It includes various display and text weights, and multiple stylistic ...
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Type Love 65: Everafter

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
You can purchase Everafter, a playful, storybook serif by Silas Dilworth, from TypeTrust....
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Type Love 64: Alright Sans

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Lately I’ve been on the lookout for a new clean, versatile sans (as much as I love Gotham, I need some variety). One that I’m currently li...
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League Gothic

Courtney • Sep 28, 2009
The League of Movable Type has recently released League Gothic, a revival of Alternate Gothic No.1, designed by Morris Fuller Benton. The new version ...
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Daily Drop Cap

Courtney • Sep 28, 2009
Daily Drop Cap is an exciting new project from Jessica Hische. Each day she will post a new, hand-drawn decorative letterform that will be available f...
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Tungsten

Courtney • Sep 17, 2009
A new font family from HF&J, “Tungsten is a compact and sporty sans serif that’s disarming instead of pushy — not just loud, but persuas...
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Type Love 63: Cordial Bloom

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I present to you Cordial Bloom, an ornate, highly customizable display face from Veer. In addition to all of its own options, it can also be layered o...
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Type Love 62: Generell

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Generell, a playful slab serif with a slightly retro bent, is newly available from FontShop. The lowercase “w” and “k” charact...
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Semilla

Courtney • Sep 09, 2009
Oh Semilla, it was love at first sight. I just might have to lift my self-imposed type-purchasing ban for you. via Typophile...
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Jordan Jelev

Courtney • Aug 30, 2009
Amazing calligraphy by Jordan Jelev—check out his Bēhance portfolio for lots more....
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Type Love 61: Carrosserie

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Designed by Letterwerk (whose logo I’m in love with, by the way), Carrosserie is a sans serif display face inspired by the shapes of the 30s....
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Tattooday

Courtney • Aug 30, 2009
Tattoday is the daily typographic project of Thomas Brodahl, one of the creators of Surfstation. Like a temporary tattoo, each day he hand-lettered a ...
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Letter Playground

Courtney • Aug 30, 2009
The latest personal project from Nate Williams is Letter Playground, an on-going collection of various hand-drawn letterforms....
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Type Love 60: Torino Display

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
A fun Jukebox serif with exuberant swashes. Torino Display...
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New ABC’s

Courtney • Aug 14, 2009
I love this new project by Erin Hanson of Recovering Lazyholic, a unique take on your typical alphabet cards. You can find all 26 letters right here....
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Type Love 59: Quatro

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I tweeted yesterday about the official release of Quatro by ppwrk studio, an ultra black display face. But today I wanted to show you a couple of the ...
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Rudi de Wet

Courtney • Aug 02, 2009
Check out the excellent hand-lettering skills of Rudi de Wet....
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J. Zachary Keenan

Courtney • Aug 02, 2009
Check out J. Zachary Keenan’s awesomely retro typography for The Hotel Minneapolis....
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Type Love 58: Loupot

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
One of Cyrus Highsmith’s lesser known fonts is Loupot, a bold sharply-stroked script....
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Aaron Scamihorn

Courtney • Aug 02, 2009
Aaron Scamihorn does an excellent job of incorporating typography and texture into his illustrations. via Yay! Everyday...
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Love What You Do

Courtney • Aug 02, 2009
A limited edition, screen printed, typographic poster by Bandito Design Co. You can pick up a copy right here in their Etsy shop....
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Screenshots

Courtney • Aug 02, 2009
Lots of inspiration can be found in vintage movie stills, especially when it comes to typography. And this new site, organized by Christian Annyas, ha...
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Many Thanks

Courtney • Aug 02, 2009
I’m back in New York and ready for a new week of posts after what turned out to be an ultra-relaxing break. A big thank-you to Jane, Ellie, Andr...
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Quicker + See Ya Later!

Andrea • Dec 21, 2010
As previously mentioned, this week I’ve taken off to the Outer Banks for a much-needed vacation. And lucky for me, I’ve got some great blo...
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decoylab

Ellie • Jul 26, 2009
As previously mentioned, this week I’ve taken off to the Outer Banks for a much-needed vacation. And lucky for me, I’ve got some great blo...
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Keith Morris

Courtney • Jul 20, 2009
I never get tired of calligraphy, especially the widely varied styles of Keith Morris....
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Typejockeys

Courtney • Jul 20, 2009
Typejockeys is part type foundry, part design studio based in Vienna, Austria. Run by three young designers—Anna Fahrmaier, Thomas Gabriel, and Mich...
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Type Love 57: Keks

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Keks is a new typeface by Hubert Jocham. Part blackletter, part roman; the interesting letterforms will definitely bring a uniquely modern edge to you...
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The Typography of Harry Potter

Courtney • Jul 22, 2009
For the past however many years since the Harry Potter craze began, I’ve managed to avoid getting hooked. I’ll probably never read the boo...
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Yvonne Schüttler

Courtney • Jul 19, 2009
Designer and typographer Yvonne Schüttler created Vinga in 2007 during her time at Frankfurt Academy of Visual Arts. In lieu of a traditional specime...
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New from You Work for Them

Courtney • Jul 17, 2009
Our friends at You Work for Them just released a slew of new fonts, vectors, and more, including these two hand-set fonts that caught my eye. Forty Fi...
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Type Love 56: Phaeton and Olduvai

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
These two whimsical typefaces, Phaeton and Olduvai, are part of Veer’s Umbrella Type Collection. Phaeton Olduvai...
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Marquande Editions

Courtney • Jul 12, 2009
Marquande Editions is a division of Marquande books, a publisher of fine illustrated books. The Editions division sells various handmade goods includi...
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The Bad Lab Wallpaper

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
In addition to posters and t-shirts, The Bad Lab makes a couple of fun, designy wallpapers, Sellvetica and This & That (my personal favorite). via...
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Type Love 55: Slab Sherrif

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Slab Sherrif is the first font created by Alex Sheldon aka Match & Kerosene. And if you buy before the end of July it will only cost you $16.25. v...
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Theorum

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
A new typeface from Ale Paul: Theorum....
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In Love with Letters

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
These gorgeous letterforms stopped be in my tracks. Apparently they are actually part of a notecard set design by Jeanie Nelson of The Paper Nut from ...
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Type Love 54: Liza

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Liza, the latest release from Underware is pretty amazing. Not only is it a fun and playful script with a hand-painted look, but it also has built-in ...
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Type Love 53: Kulturista

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Suitcase Type Foundry makes some of my favorite typefaces (Gloriola, anyone?), so I’m not surprised that I instantly fell for their newest relea...
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If You’re Into Weddings…

Courtney • Jun 23, 2009
I’ve been posting lots of designy invitations and paper goods over at my wedding blog, including this typographic one by bluepoolroad....
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Type Love 52: Plume Advertising

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
My latest FontShop obsession is the chunky yet graceful Plume Advertising, designed by Bruno Maag....
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Wooden Letters

Courtney • Dec 14, 2012
Last week I stumbled upon this really great resource for reasonably-priced wooden letters, Discount Lettering Brands. I’m always on the lookout ...
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Lite-Brite Love

Courtney • Jun 10, 2009
As I’ve mentioned before, Lite-Brite was one of my favorite childhood toys—I’m kicking myself for letting my parents get rid of it years...
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Type Love 51: Bodoni Script Pro

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Bodoni Script Pro would be a perfect typeface for a wedding invitation.The character set is packed with lots of graceful, flourishy details, and the c...
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Holiday Type

Courtney • Dec 18, 2012
FLAT-IT, an independent type foundry based in Japan, produces a whole range of various display faces. I previously wrote about one of their fonts, HT ...
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Font in Progress: Questa

Courtney • Jun 03, 2009
Questo is an in-progress typeface from exljbris font foundry, which also brought us Museo and Anivers. The details look amazing, especially those liga...
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Type Love 50: FF Dancer

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
FF Dancer, designed by Fontpartners, was part of Typographica’s Best Fonts of 2007. The design was intended to combine a constructed sans serif ...
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OK Experiment

Courtney • Jun 01, 2009
Our friends over at OK Great have an ongoing experiment creating handmade versions of their logo with various materials. Lately they’ve been exp...
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Anthropologie + Hatch Show Print

Courtney • Mar 20, 2011
If you haven’t yet received the June Anthropolgie catalog, you’re in for a treat. The creative team at Anthro has joined forces with Hatch...
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Type Love 49: ITC Klepto

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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XTRABOLD

Courtney • May 20, 2009
Designer Nelson Balaban, aka XTRABOLD, created these over-the-top graphics for an article of Computer Arts Projects. The illustration was designed for...
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From A-Z

Courtney • May 20, 2009
In case you haven’t heard, the folks over at Alphabet Bags have added some new designs to their shop. I’m sure the recession bag will prov...
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Type Love 48: Pinup

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
You can pick up Pinup, a pillowy, lovable sans serif designed by Pieter van Rosmalen, from FontShop....
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Ian Brignell

Courtney • May 19, 2009
Lovely lettering by Ian Brignell. via FFFFOUND!...
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Type Love 47: League

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
League, by Letterbox, is a chunky display face with interesting details....
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For Immediate Purchase

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
Sentinel, a new slab serif from HF&J....
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Checks Never Looked So Good

Courtney • May 12, 2009
These 19th century engraved checks were luckily found by Sean Kelly at Deamplified. The details are amazing—even the penmanship is impeccable, as yo...
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Type Love 46: FF Good

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
FF Good is a clean, elegant and versatile sans serif from FontShop. (I love the lowercase G.)...
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