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Tag: Typography

Wayne White

Courtney • May 06, 2009
Not sure how I stumbled upon the work of Wayne White, but he’s definitely an artist I’ll be paying more attention to from now on. He is be...
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SkechType

Courtney • May 04, 2009
If you’ve always wanted to incorporate hand-drawn type into your work but lack the skills to create it for yourself, SketchType might be the per...
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Daily Type

Courtney • Apr 29, 2009
Daily Type is a blog I check in with regularly. It’s a creative space overseen by Russian type designers who post their daily type experiments. ...
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Type Love 45: Houschka Pro

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Gorgeous lines on Houschka Pro from Veer....
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Green Words

Courtney • Apr 27, 2009
Artist Nicole Dextras created several outdoor installations during her residency at VanDusen Botanical Garden last summer, some of which involving org...
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The Road Less Traveled

Courtney • Apr 22, 2009
Here’s some amazing three-dimensional typography created by Volumeone. There are six other designs in the series, which you can also buy as a po...
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Type Love 44: Blaktur

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
I know, more blackletter. But I love this more playful version—Blaktur—from House Industries....
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The New Typographica & Their Favorites

Courtney • Apr 22, 2009
If you haven’t heard already, Typographica has a brand new look, and it’s pretty awesome. Check it out right here. And. They’ve also...
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Type Love 43: Carmen, Memoriam, Narziss

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Dark and light, thick and thin. (Couldn’t pick just one this week.) Carmen Memoriam Narziss...
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MOD: Free Font

Courtney • Jul 07, 2009
Svetoslav Simov’s latest font project is a chunky display face called MOD. You can download the Open Type version for both Mac and PC right here...
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Mar 29, 2011
Plain and simple. Be Cool, $18 at Threadless...
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Made by Julene

Courtney • Apr 14, 2009
Amazing. via swissmiss...
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Type Love 42: Router

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Richard Perez

Courtney • Apr 05, 2009
Lately Richard Perez’s poster designs—which are great—have gotten some publicity. But I’m also really impressed with his design work a...
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We Make Words

Courtney • Apr 05, 2009
This may be my new favorite blog. via Seesaw Designs...
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PenJet

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
The PenJet project is the result of a classroom experiment involving a printer that used an attached pen as part of its mechanism. Created by three st...
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Type Love 41: Zocalo

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Joshua Tetreault

Courtney • Mar 29, 2009
Designer Joshua Tetreault has some beautiful hand-drawn typography in his portfolio, including this design for the 20th century Venetian Baroque compo...
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Type Love 40: Glosa

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Glosa Display...
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New from YWFT

Courtney • Mar 23, 2009
You Work for Them just released four new typefaces: Pineapple, Merriam, Matter and Morricone. My two favorites (Pineapple and Merriam) are below....
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Esquire Breakfast

Courtney • Mar 17, 2009
More awesome work from Erin Jang. How can you not love the maple syrup type?? Yum....
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Type Love 39: Jubilat

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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I’d Like One of Each, Please

Courtney • Mar 16, 2009
A set of t-shirts printed by MyFonts to hand out to attendees of last summer’s TypeCon in Buffalo, New York. via the MyFonts blog...
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Lagarto

Courtney • Mar 10, 2009
Looking forward to the release of this typeface by Kimera. Soon to be available at FontShop. via I Love Typography...
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Type Love 38: HT Cartoleria

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
This week I’m loving the fun retro style of script, HT Cartoleria....
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Cutback Gothic

Courtney • Mar 02, 2009
Designer Daniël Maarleveld designed a book of typographic experiements using the blackletter face, Cutback Gothic, during his time at the Rietveld Ac...
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Type Love 37: Antenna

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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 ...
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Nice Type

Courtney • Nov 20, 2013
The Nice Type channel on Vimeo was created by Matthew Buchanan and features “sturdy typography, motion and kinetic type explorations, and other ...
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The Sketchbooks of Cyrus Highsmith

Courtney • Mar 01, 2009
MyFonts sent out it’s monthly Creative Characters newsletter the other day, and this time the focus was on Font Bureau’s Cyrus Highsmith. ...
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Fun with ASCII

Courtney • Feb 22, 2009
Typeset something of your own right here....
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Type Love 36: Geogrotesque

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Geogrotesque is a new type family from emtype....
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Great Flickr Find

Courtney • Feb 22, 2009
The other day I luckily stumbled upon the typographic goodness of wasianed’s Flickr stream. I’m especially loving this Berthold Type Found...
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TDC 2009

Courtney • Feb 22, 2009
The winners of the Type Director’s Club’s annual competition have been announced. You can see the complete list of winners right here, but...
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Monster Type

Courtney • Feb 20, 2009
Originally created by designer/illustrator Joey Ellis, these adorable little letterforms can all be downloaded as desktop wallpapers right here. And n...
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Type Love 35: Girard Slab

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
To commemorate the work of the legendary Alexander Girard, House Industries has recently launched a whole suite of typefaces, my favorite being the Gi...
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The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

Courtney • Feb 13, 2009
A second (and final) edition of Seb Lester’s extremely popular Mightier print is available at the Keep Calm Gallery as of last night. They&#8217...
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Type Love 34: Soiree

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Soiree was inspired by designer Jacqueline Yue’s three month stay in Paris, and can be purchased at T26....
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T-shirt Wednesdays

Courtney • Mar 29, 2011
The latest from Ugmonk: One Hundred, $21...
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Yomar Augusto

Courtney • Feb 08, 2009
There’s some interesting typographic logos in the portfolio of Brazilian artist and graphic designer, Yomar Augusto. Check out his complete port...
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Modern Alphabets

Courtney • Feb 04, 2009
There’s a lot of really great typographic reference material in the Flickr stream of Depression Press, especially this one....
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Type Love 33: Cube, Cubic

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Fontfabric makes some really interesting three-dimensional fonts. Cube Cubic...
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Pretty Sure

Courtney • Feb 04, 2009
A winner of the TDC 55 Certificate of Typographic Excellence, Pretty Sure is a one-color screen print by designer Nick Schmitz. Could be a fun Valenti...
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Some Letterpress Eye Candy

Courtney • Feb 03, 2009
If you haven’t checked out Studio on Fire’s new blog, you should head over there immediately—it’s overflowing with letterpress goo...
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Typenuts

Courtney • Feb 01, 2009
Typenuts is another fantastic resource for typographic iphone and desktop wallpapers, brought to you by I Love Typography....
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Sophie Henson

Courtney • Jan 26, 2009
Designer/Illustrator Sophie Henson has so many great pieces in her portfolio. See more here and here....
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Regime

Courtney • Jan 30, 2009
This typographic illustration was produced by Jonathan Barnbrook for for a special edition of the Guardian G2 supplement, celebrating the inauguration...
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Type Love 32: Typonine

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Typonine is a Croatian type foundry with a small but quality offering of typefaces, including the two sophisticated serifs below. Marlene Amalia...
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Type in Use

Courtney • Jan 25, 2009
Typotheque has quite an extensive section of samples of their fonts in use. Below are a couple of examples of Fedra Sans....
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Type Love 31: Cadena

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Cadena...
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Fontcase

Courtney • Jan 21, 2009
I received an email last night announcing the release of Fontcase 1.0, a font management tool for the Mac that allows you to tag and control your font...
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Type Love 30: Quantico

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
Quantico is a display face designed by Mad Type, and is available for purchase at You Work for Them and My Fonts....
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Just My Type

Courtney • Jan 10, 2009
More vector type, this time from Formconspiracy. Just My Type features seven free fonts, including the ones below....
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FWIS Type

Courtney • Jan 10, 2009
“type.fwis.com is a playground for typographic experiments by Fwis (and friends).” The goal of the site is to release one new (and free) t...
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My Fonts Gets a Makeover

Courtney • Jan 08, 2009
The beta version of the new (and long overdue) My Fonts site has been up for a little while. But I just got an email yesterday about the design of the...
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Type Love 29: Hannah

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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Live Now

Courtney • Jan 05, 2009
Live Now is a typographic gallery of quotes and phrases related to living meaningful lives. Created by Eric Smith of I Draw All Day, Live Now came to ...
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Juan Camilo

Courtney • Jan 04, 2009
Juan Camilo makes these really impressive typographic sculptures. You can see a couple of them below: “Flavor” constructed out of cigarett...
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Type Love 28: Atlantik

Courtney • Sep 14, 2012
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...
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typo/graphic Posters

Courtney • Dec 28, 2008
An amazing resource for all you typophiles out there, this growing database of typographic poster designs is chock full of inspiration from both estab...
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Type: Best of 2008

Courtney • Dec 28, 2008
Lately I’ve seen several round-ups of the best typefaces of 2008, so I figured I’d get them all in one place, along with my picks. Here ar...
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