May 13

Typography Articles, Inspiration & News – May 2009

Everyone loves typography. It’s one of the most inspiring (and difficult) areas of graphic design. Hope you love this roundup that includes new typefaces from HF&J, lovely illustrated type, ligatures, typographic portraits and more!

Blackletter Type

Great article about the history and beauty of blackletter type.

Typography Served

Typograhy Served

Great site from the guys over at Behance -Hand picked typography from the behance.net portfolios. Also check out Motion Served, Fashion Served, and Photography Served

Type Faces

I’m blown away by the detail in these typographic portraits. Great roundup post by Abruzeedo.

Font Squirrel

Squirrels and fonts, can’t get much better than this right? Ok, how about free (non-crappy) fonts! Yes!

Lovely Lovely Ligatures

Ever wonder where ligatures came from? Check out this article that goes into a bit of the history and showcases some really lovely ligatures.

Spell With Flickr

Ever wanted to spell with flickr photos? This site lets you spell out words in flickr photos. Click on the photo to change out the letters. Very cool!

Alex Trochut

Check out the decorative lettering and illustration of Alex Trochut.

FontStruct

Fonstruct is not new by any means, but its still cool to tinker around with and make a typeface.

Typographic Marks Unknown

Alex Charchar has written a great article explaining the history and use of lesser known typographic marks.

Tryout

‘Tri Out’ is my maiden voyage into display typeface design.
This face was created from a simple block form cut into
with a right angled triangle and comes in 2 styles.

Rasterman

A cool dot-matrix style font made with fontstruct. This would be sweet at large sizes!

Marian Bantjes

Looking for super-ornate hand lettering insipration? Check out the work of Marian Bantjes.

Vegur

Nice free simple geometric sans with 3 weights – light, regular and BOLD.

FF Reminga Bold Italic OT

Fontshop is always friendly to designers and gives away a free weight of one of their typefaces every once in a while. Check out FF Reminga Bold Itallc. A nice bold font that is sure to get your attention.

Sentinel

Sentinel: the slab serif that works.

New Typeface by H&FJ: For everyone who wishes Clarendons had italics, and everyone whose favorite slab serif is shy a few weights: Sentinel was designed for you.

By Niki

Comments

Luke May 13th

Really great links, I especially like the Type Faces one! Thanks :)
Sean Stiller May 13th

I’m always incredibly impressed by what Hoefler & Frere-Jones put out, and Sentinel is no exception. The nicest slab serif I’ve seen in a long time for sure.
Alex Charcahr May 13th

Hey! Thanks for the links to retinart, makes for a good start to a day :)
Kristine May 14th

Just love the squirrel! :) Thanks for sharing these resources
Benek May 14th

Link on font squirrel photo is wack.

Nice list.
Jeff Finley May 14th

The new Sentinel typeface from H&FJ is really nice. I’ve always been a fan of their foundry.
ideamashups May 14th

I can’t believe I haven’t seen most of these site before! Thanks for the great inspiration
Niki May 15th

lol…the pic from the font squirrel thing is from one of my blog posts about horribly photoshopped squirrels… just thought it was appropriate :)

http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2008/07/25/horribly-photoshoped-squirrels/
Philipp May 15th

Great list!
Camille May 18th

Wonderful list! I am a fairly recent fan of Marian Bantjes and I find her work to be particularly inspirational and unique. Thank you for the many resources you provide here!

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Hey there! I'm Niki - a graphic designer by day and design blogger by night. When I'm not basking in the warm glow of my computer screen, I enjoy long walks on the beach, squirrels, bananas, and living in Boston.