I really love the personality of the Neo Orient typeface by Istanbul, Turkey based designer and typographer Uğur İslim. The typeface includes both a standard set and an initials set that are equally beautiful. Unfortunately I can’t find any more information on the typeface or whether it’s available for purchase.
Paris is an amazing new typeface by Israeli designer Moskik Nadav. This amazingly ornate typeface includes some of the most beautiful and creative ligatures I’ve seen this years.
The typeface works best at Title size and pairs beautifully with more traditional slab-serifs. Paris includes 9 weights and is available on the Moshik Nadav Typography website for $400.
A Visual Guide to the Ampersand by designer/blogger Jacob Gube, of SixRevisions, lays out the the rich history of the Ampersand symbol. The mighty “&” dates back to 63 B.C. and an still loved today by designers and typographers around the world. The infographic includes the history, how-to-draw guide, HTML usage, correct punctuation guidelines, and a style chart.
The four original videos that were part of the EF Language School’s “Live The Language” series were really something and the three new ones they have recently completed are nothing short of spectacular. The three new videos, Sydney, Vancouver and Los Angeles add some subtle color to the motion graphics but mostly hold true to the original videos.
This is one of those rare moments on the web when I am so excited I can barely contain myself. Wood Type Revival has opened is proverbial doors. This Kickstarter funded project collects old wooden type, cleans it, prints it, and converts it into digital typefaces. They are even offering the typefaces on WebKit, allowing you to embed the type effortlessly into your website.
Wood Type Revival is starting with four classic typefaces, Fatboy, Roycroft, French Clarendon Ornamented, and Gothic Open Shaded. Each type face is available for download for the low price of $15.00. Each font comes in two “weights,” regular & distressed. The regular weight has been digitally cleaned to reproduce sharply while the distressed weight has all of the blemishes from the original letterpress proof.
Love this great typography poster by Angela Sun of 2in1 Design. The Exclaim poster is a hand pulled screen print that includes 24 words used with exclamation points all set in different typefaces. The words range from fun and funny to mildly profane. The prints are 12.5″x 19 but can be trimmed to fit in a 12″x18″ frame, and are printed on 140lb French Paper Pop-Tone Whip Cream card stock.
The prints are available in 2in1 Design’s Etsy Store for only $25.00
Priori Acute, designed by John Barnbrook (of Virus Fonts) for Emigre is a brilliant extension of his already beautiful Prior Family. This typeface is the culmination of years of experiments in three-dimensional letterforms inspired by 19th century display and artistic titling faces and informed by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher.
The resulting typeface is playful and solid feeling, a mix of incongruous perspectives and surfaces. Included in Priori Acute are a collection of ornaments that can be tiled together to create unending patterns.
I remember playing with these when I was kid, using a spoon to transfer letters to just about everything I could. Veer initially made these as a promotion to give to their top clients, but they quickly realized that every type nerd out there would love them. $18.00 on Veer gets you your own set. The set comes with 5 sheets, each a different Veer typeface.
A Grotesk Love Affair is a really great project by designers Ryan Atkinson & Stephan de Lange in which they set out to quantify & display what grotesk typefaces designers love the most. The duo designed a series of beautiful posters that advertising the project and asking designers and creatives to go to a website they set up to collect the data.
Ryan and Stephan decided that they would display all the voter’s name on the final product as part of the infographics as a way to entice people to participate. The PDFS of the final products are available for download on the projects website.
Typetoken is an awesome new online magazine by Mike Sullivan that showcases, discusses and reviews the world of typography, iconography and visual language. The site was built by Mike Sullivan of Mister in collaboration with Mark Millic of Modularlab and developed for the web by David Cole of Mayfield Digital.
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