Typography

Typographic, print and typography design inspiration

The ‘Little Black Font Book’ is a must have designer desk accessory for 2012. 34 pages packed with typographic inspiration for creatives to find and buy truly unique, hand-crafted fonts. The book itself is perfect bound, printed on 120gsm recycled paper, and finished with a matt laminate cover and available at Amazon.

“To celebrate our biggest typefamily, Tablet Gothic, so far, we offer a 25% discount on the complete bundle, which includes all 42 fonts ranging from Wide to Compressed and Thin to Heavy. This brings the price down to a terrific €9 per font. To take advantage of this offer, in checkout use code: dcfcddc7. Valid only until June 18.”

Get your Gothic while its on sale.

In an effort to bring their Exclusive Faces range to a larger audience, HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce our first magazine release. The brief was to produce a 16 page A2 mailer with a twist. Instead of following the traditional convention of a read through booklet, Ryan designed a quick read through A2 magazine which also doubles up as a set of 4 Exclusive Faces posters. Each page folds out to create a double sided poster perfect for your studio or home wall space.

The magazine itself is printed litho on 90gsm wood free paper, giving everything a premium newspaper feel which absorbs the inks to create a beautiful desaturated look and feel.

Available at Amazon

“The Internet Archive is hosting a copy of the American Specimen Book of Type Styles put out by the American Type Founders Company in 1912. It’s a 1300-page book listing hundreds of typefaces and their possible use cases.”

via kottke.org

Aesthetic Apparatus is raising funds for VALUCO Font Design on Kickstarter! Aesthetic Apparatus needs your assistance in bringing this fussy, ultra-display, beveled typeface to life!

Bringing dimensionality to the face of fonts through crowd-sourced funding. This could be the future. Will I need special glasses?

to promote our new typeface cassannet, based on the style of lettering seen on cassandre posters, we’ve recreated on flesh and blood the famous triptych “dubo, dubon, dubonnet”.

Love this little recreation.

The calendar side is based on a 15 column grid across the full
width of an A1 sheet — A dual function piece — The A1 calendar can be folded into a 5 column fold out A1 length mailer, which allows for less expensive and easier posting of the calendar. The reverse of the calendar features selected Trebleseven branding/design projects.

Dan Sayers of Iotic has created Avería — The Average Font. A new typeface generated by averaging all the fonts installed on his computer. A very interesting experiment on generative typography, the font is released under the SIL Open Font License and can be downloaded for free.

Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer’s solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck!

Fun little test.