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3. PLASTER Festival

The third edition of International Festival of Poster and Typography PLASTER 3 is dedicated to issues concerning cultural and artistic relations between Polish and Belarusian graphic design. Despite ...

16 may 12

Chrono

Chrono by Process is another addition to the range Recta/Neuzeit-esque faces, including Calibre by KLIM, Graphik by Christian Schwartz and digitized Recta itself, by CanadaType, to name a few. Eric O...

02 apr 12 1 person likes this

typeconnection

A pretty cool typographic match game, made with much attention to detail: typeconnection

02 apr 12 1 person likes this

Futura: animated specimen

FUTURA LE SPECIMEN ANIMÉ from Thibault de Fournas on Vimeo.

15 feb 12 1 person likes this

Kontrapunkt Bob

Kontrapunkt, the danish guys behind award-winning free Kontrapunkt typeface, have released a nice slab serif in two weights, for free. Test and download here

26 jan 12

The secret of creativity

Source

21 oct 11

Origins of popular typefaces

Download the overview as a PDF here (and ignore the terribly written article, wrong typeface names, Times New Roman classified as a Sans Serif, come on) 

12 oct 11 1 person likes this

Prestiggio and Mingray from Rekord

Mingray is a stylish monospaced font in three weights Prestiggio is an elegant display font with many alternate characters and ligatures

11 oct 11

KernType, kerning game

Pretty cool game, needs more words and fonts though :)

10 oct 11

Reuters

01 oct 11

Fontdropper

Some of you may know WebInk, the web fonts service from Extensis, the guys behind Suitcase Font Manager. They offer a pretty cool widget called FontDropper 1000, used for live preview of the fonts on...

30 sep 11

Wolda contest winners

The winning entry is pretty cool, but overall Im a bit disappointed with the level of the short-listed works. My two favourites among them:

29 sep 11

Smidgen from House Industries

Nice revival, and it comes with drop shadow style

28 sep 11

Brocade

28 sep 11

Irma Text

Ive always liked Typotheque Irma, the tight spacing, rigid but somehow warm geometric shapes, fun ligatures. But Ive also asked myself, y u no lowercase? Now there is the Text version with lowercase ...

27 sep 11 1 person likes this

Photolettering catalog

Beautifully done, very fun. The photos dont do it justice, the thin paper is amazing!

26 sep 11

Calligraphy on Glass

Calligraphy on Glass from Jonathan Hamilton on Vimeo.

26 sep 11

How ligatures are made

by David Schwen who happens to make much more cool stuff

17 aug 11

Sexy alphabet

click to enlarge by the wonderful Malika Favre

14 aug 11

Nice cards

All these and more at 55his.com

02 aug 11

Marlene Stencil

Nicola Djurek has extended his wonderful Marlene with Stencil styles, which offer 4 alternate swashes per glyph. Hes crazy.

18 jul 11

Capitolium, Coranto and Pollen

Finally, the magnificent Gerard Unger typefaces can be bought at typetogether or MyFonts. Developed especially as newspaper headlines faces or signage type, they are both very space-saving and have e...

12 jul 11

Kieler Woche posters

Kieler Woche is a sailing cup in Germany, and the best thing about it, they ask renowned designers to create new identity every year. Some of the highlights from over 60 years of nice poster design c...

10 jul 11

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