Lolwut

I read a lot on the internet, and so it happens, I stumble upon a lot of misguided opinions and poorly researched statements. Usually I'd just browse past the bullshit, but this one from Business Insider on why Helvetica is the only typeface in the future tops them all. Kudos to the author for being able to pack so much nonsense in such a short article. Read and cry, typophiles.

Monokrom: a new type foundry

Welcome a new foundry from Norway: Monokrom opens with 5 excellent typefaces. Aften Screen is a friendly Grotesque, suitable for long reading on screen, as the name suggests. Read more on the process here. Great stuff.

Bruno

Multilayered type always looks nice, but it's a pain to work with. Until now!

Leo Koppelkamm releases Bruno, a lovely multilayered font that is pretty easy to work with. For that he developed an InDesign plugin, which fetches the colors from your swatches, and lets you use them for the background layer. Essentially it seems to be two text frames, but glued together, and instantly updated. You can track the text, underline it, rotate, resize, basically do pretty much everything you can do while using any other font. Better see it in action in this demo video.

While it's cool from a technological point of view, it is also a cute design, which would feel at home with anything kids-related. The last line in the image is how the glyphs actually look in this font — with alternates to make the background. How Leo didn't go insane while designing them, is beyond me. Anyway, it's great to see people pushing the boundaries of what's possible in typography.

Protip: get Bruno while on sale!

Drop Cap covers for Pinguin Classics

Jessica Hische never seizes to amaze me, every time I see her new work mentioned anywhere leads me to her site, where the unmistakable but versatile style leaves me glued to the display for at least an hour. These wonderful covers are no exception of course, and there goes my productivity for today. Damn you, Jessica, I've got work to do!
 

 Nice write-up about Karloff, the new typeface from Typotheque. Interesting, how we perceive one extreme contrast shift as elegant, and another as monstrous.

Turnip

David Jonathan Ross is a master of contrast. His playful Trilby, majestic (and enormously extensive) Condor and the fun Manicotti all show that, some more subtle than others. Turnip has plenty of the subtle but visible contrast variation, a wide top-heavy design with squarish inner and round outer curves and sharp angles that make for paragraphs "with a bite" as he calls it. It all sounds clunky, but makes the paragraphs sit remarkably well on a page. I loved Joshua Darden's Freight Micro, and this goes into similar direction, with Bookman (and hints of Clarendon?) as a role model. Take a look at Turnip here

James Bond Book Covers

Nice typographic covers for the James Bond series from Randomhouse. Head over to CreativeBloq for a nice write-up on every cover, interesting stuff!

Some are better than others (Diamonds Are Forever is my favourite I guess, Dr. No being the weakest of the bunch), but as a whole it's pretty cool. 

EURO 2012 match schedule

Nice typographical match schedule for the EURO 2012, free download

Cassannet

A good-looking free font based on lettering of the poster artist Cassandre, and an excellent site

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 the geographic proximity and strong historical connotations between both countries, the question of mutual references in the field of widely understood design seems to be still little penetrated. The Festival is going to cause symmetrical actions – we will see the art of Polish and Belarusian designers in equal proportions.

The opening of the Festival – on the 23rd of May (7 p.m.) - will be accompanied by vernissages of four exhibitions. On the CoCA's ground floor we will have an opportunity to see an exposition of prominent Polish poster designer Lech Majewski who, in a very individual style, presents relation that exists between graphic form and manually prepared typography. After the opening, in the space of Kino Centrum, at 8 p.m. will take place a meeting with the Artist.

More info

typeconnection

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

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 Olson's vision is DINified a bit, and it's good to have alternatives, right?

Futura: animated specimen

FUTURA LE SPECIMEN ANIMÉ from Thibault de Fournas on Vimeo.

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