This typographic illustration made me look. Love it! Check out the site.
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Hausschrift-Liste
Which company uses which font in their logo. A useful list.
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A Man Who Minds His P’s and Q’s
The city has no shortage of sign lettering, and one expert, Paul Shaw, has amassed 5,000 photographs of lettering in New York. He thinks he has only scratched the surface.
A Man Who Minds His P’s and Q’s, a NewYorkTimes Article by Christopher Gray
Rowland Scherman’s “Love Letters”
Love Letters by Rowland Scherman, 1975
typographic map of london
Londong based NB: Studio created a type driven map of London. I’ts a beauty! Oh my, this would love fantastic on our walls! Me want! Me want! You can order it here.
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choose (helvetica) sides
Choose sides in the design world’s love/hate relationship with Helvetica, or have it both ways. This two-sided notebook features a loving quote in Helvetica Std on one cover, then flips to reveal a darker intent. Ruled throughout with additional quotes in unobtrusive 3 pt. type. Favor one side or work from both, toward the middle. A center divider keeps the peace. 192 pages, 6 3/4″ x 8 1/2″.
alphabet in raw beef
Robert Bolesta has created an alphabet out of formed chunks of ground beef in styro trays.
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helvetica cake
1000 pt. Helvetica cake, created by matt michaluk, alistair webb and adam tickle for Helvetica’s 50th birthday. Very cool!
Ella, want a Helvetica cake for your first birthday? (I can see G rolling his eyes in disbelief!)
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13 alternatives to helvetica
There are many reasons why Helvetica is so widespread. The most obvious being that a few weights have been bundled with the Mac OS for years. It is arguably the most respectable of the “default” fonts. But it’s also used because it’s a safe, neutral choice.
preface
I comletely agree with Kate over at forme-foryou.com: Usually free fonts make me gag, but fontshop.com gives away a free font every month and this month’s font, Preface, aint too shabby. I haven’t had time to test it out, but so far I love the lowercase l’s. I’m a sucker for light sans serifs, such as Meta Light (oh look at that letter g!) and Helvetica Neue 25 Ultra Light, my staples at work. *drool*
100 best fonts of all time
The 100 best fonts of all time.
(Thank you Red!)
free animal font by kapitza
KAPITZA SHOP, a new online shop specialising in picture fonts and illustrations, presents its’ new release Creatures, an animal outline font. Creatures consists of 40 cute and creepy animal outline illustrations.
I love the ducks!!!
verlag | font
Hoefler & Frere-Jones released Verlag, an expansion of the fonts they created years ago for the Guggenheim. It’s available in 30 styles, including a very tasteful Compressed set and some thoughtful figures and punctuation.
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angry fonts | badge set
Fonts Badge Set ( Sans Edition), by Angry-Associates.com
miss stephams | font
Miss Stephams Font, available at veer.com
helvetica the movie
Helvetica, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit. Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
I CAN NOT wait to see this documentary!
About the Typeface: Helvetica was developed by Max Miedinger in 1957 for the Haas Type Foundry in Munchenstein, Switzerland. In the late 1950s, the European design world saw a revival of older sans-serif typefaces such as Akzidenz Grotesk. Haas’ director Eduard Hoffmann commissioned Miedinger, a former employee and freelance designer, to draw an updated sans-serif typeface to add to their line. The result was called Neue Haas Grotesk, but its name was later changed to Helvetica, derived from Helvetia, the Roman name for Switzerland, when Haas’ German parent companies Stempel and Linotype began marketing the font internationally in 1961.
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helvetica pencil case.
device: wear it’s at | font
Designer Rian Hughes presents four new worn and weathered display faces over at Veer.com. See them all.
whomp font
Whomp takes its inspiration from the work of an American master in sign painting and alphabet manipulation: Alf Becker. In 1932, Becker began designing a series of alphabets to be published in Signs of the Times magazine at the rate of one alphabet per month. Nine years later, 100 of those alphabets were compiled in one book that became an enormous success among sign painters. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many Alf Becker alphabets were digitized with blurbs that falsely credit them as “an Alf Becker typeface”. Alf Becker was not really a typeface kind of guy. He was more of a calligrapher and sign painter. His alphabets were either incomplete or full of variations on different letters, and didn’t become typefaces until the digital era.
Whomp™ – A Veer Exclusive
the logos of the web 2.0
Ludwig Gatzke’s compiled nearly 400 Web 2.0 logos. WOW!
Click here for a breakdown of the fonts used in some of the fontshop’s favorite brands.
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roadkill | font
Me likey: Roadkill Font by Veer.
Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in your word processor or graphics program, just like regular fonts.