Saturday, 20 March 2010

Hmm long period of nothing posted on here eh.

Well since no one has posted on here for a while I thought I would put something up and so to carry on the trend started off before I'll try to post a typeface every couple of days. I'm going to stick to typefaces that you can find for free since its not fair posting one no one can get.
OK so my first one I'm going to post up and is a fave of mine is this one. Andes


What I love about this font is its simplicity. I also love how capital letters become slightly stylised. In a way its a strange cross breed of a serif and a san serif font.
Well hope this helps someone looking for a font like this and if anyone else wants to post fonts as well then that's great.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Sans Serif and Serif the difference!


Yes folks we should all know this but anyone who doesn't and is to embarrassed to google here it is.

Mrs Eaves


Hmm pretty sure Baskerville is default on all of our computers but this is Zuzana Licko's revival of Baskerville. It is named after Sarah Eaves, John Baskerville's housekeeper, who later became his wife. Another classic!

Letter Gothic


Letter Gothic was designed by Roger Roberson for IBM sometime between 1956 and 1962 according to adobe. It does look like the font used on old PC keyboards. Anyway used it quite a bit recently.

Dom Casual


Dom Casual is an American typeface designed in 1951 by Peter Dom. It's been used on loads on retro TV shows including Neighbors and a lot of the Hanna Barbara cartoons in the 1960's. I've noticed in creeping back into a few publications recently and on the website http://www.manystuff.org/ Feel free to stick your own stuff up here.

Bodoni Poster


Giambattista Bodoni invented the classic type face Bodoni in the seventeen hundreds, but the adaptation of 'bodoni poster' by Chauncey H. Griffith is defo one of my favs. Think it's free to download to.

Sunday, 31 January 2010

Fonts and their Designers

This week I'm going to post a favourite font a day. Starting with this one by http://www.typogabor.com/herb-lubalin/index.html. This font is called Avant Garde named after the magazine logo it was created for. Always try and remember the fonts you use in projects. font a day