Sunday, November 28, 2010

Kade

Kade from Re-Type is based on harbour lettering. May look ugly at first glance, but you will learn to love finely balanced no-nonsense roundness and whimsical cuts. Anything that has to do with honest manufacturing: Kade is your typeface.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Mafra Display

DSType has been releasing excellent stuff lately (Apud, Finura, Velino are all outstanding), but it is Mafra Display that really knocks me off. Buy it, buy it now, $26 for a style is such a steal

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Runda released

Mark Caneso of p.s.type has just released a new 10 style family, Runda. Although it looks very different from the initial designs, which were soft and, well, rounded, it is a great take on a classic grotesue.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Conqueror: a set of free fonts

Jean François Porchez has released a set of wonderful fonts, with swashes, old style and lining figures, ligatues, extensive language support and everything. Download here.

P.S. Don't confuse it with Coqueror by Yuri Gordon, a great superfamily you will have to pay for ;)

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Newtype from FontFarm



Great new family from FontFarm, it seems they've invested much of the time otherwise needed to think of a fancy name into refining the glyphs :)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

LAIKA


LAIKAFONT is an impressive experiment with dynamic font. The theory is that if the font is not printed, there is no reason why it should remain static.
This approach is also interesting while actually generating fonts: with a few components and values (like serifs, stem width, slant angle etc) you can jump from a Didone to Sans to Slab in no time.