Headline Heads Up — No. 5

One Tues­day every month, I’m going to round up a cou­ple (maybe a few) awe­some dis­play type­faces to show­case and give a lit­tle break­down on each one. If you have a sug­ges­tion you want me to take a look at, drop me a line. Let’s jump straight into some head­line goodness.

Reina

Foundry : Lián Types

Designer(s) : Maximiliano Sproviero

Cost: $24.95 — $37

First up is an excel­lent didone inspired fam­i­ly called Reina. Lovely curves, extreme con­trast, sweep­ing swash­es all build the char­ac­ter of these char­ac­ters. And there are tons of char­ac­ters — some­where over 500 glyphs in the pro ver­sions — full of titling swash char­ac­ters and OpenType alter­nates. It is built for cher­ry pick­ing let­ters through the glyphs palette to set that per­fect inter­ac­tion of swashi­ness in a head­line. Not to men­tion the addi­tion­al engraved ver­sion and fleu­rons set also avail­able for pur­chase. You should def­i­nite­ly check out the PDF put togeth­er to lay­out all the details and show real­ly wicked examples.

Liam

Foundry : Laura Worthington

Designer(s) : Laura Worthington

Cost: $29

Second on the dock­et is a new release by the extreme­ly tal­ent­ed Laura Worthington. I think of this as a dis­play type­face though it might be pos­si­ble to set a para­graph if you were care­ful. So, what does it have going for it besides being impec­ca­bly drawn and imbued with per­fect pitch of per­son­al­i­ty? Try two and three alter­nate glyphs for every let­ter. BOOYAH! Then, to throw icing on your cup­cake, a set of cute orna­ments to match the child­like theme of the whole typeface.

 

I’m going to end this mon­th’s heads up with anoth­er non-font link to an awe­some Flickr album to check out. There are some real­ly sweet let­ters in this Morgan Press Type Catalog. You can also read a lit­tle bit about the life and influ­ence of Mr. Morgan in his obit­u­ary from the NYTimes.