Headline Heads Up — No. 19

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.

Salt and Foam

Foundry : Anna Karatcheva

Designer(s) : Anna Karatcheva

Cost: FREE

Inspired by the design­er’s first time surf­ing, Salt and Foam is a great trib­ute to the ocean and waves. Shown above is Foam — with Salt being a straight-lined ver­sion of the same shapes. It cap­tures the essence of water so per­fect­ly that it would make a great head­line font for any beach themed party, surf shop, or tiki bar. It’s fun, laid back, coastal cool.

 

Saline

Foundry : Mika Melvas

Designer(s) : Mika Melvas

Cost: $35

Next up is anoth­er nau­ti­cal inspired type­face by the name of Saline. It’s an angu­lar, slight­ly upright script that bounces along. All the cor­ners give it tons of per­son­al­i­ty. It would make a great start­ing point for an iden­ti­ty or logo com­po­nent. The nau­ti­cal theme is rein­forced with a set of Opentype orna­ments that can be used as icons, bor­ders, or patterns.

 

Yorker

Foundry : UPPERTYPE

Designer(s) : Pedro Lobo

Cost: €25

I could­n’t come up with a bet­ter image than what Pedro Lobo already cre­at­ed to adver­tise his Yorker type­face. The ani­mat­ed .gif show­ing the lay­ers build up is all his doing. He has built a six style lay­er­ing sys­tem of an old school, col­le­giate block type­face. There’s the solid base, the out­line, the 3D shad­ow, the outer shad­ow, the inner shad­ow, and final­ly the hatch­ing stripes. I wish I could remem­ber how to do per­mu­ta­tions because that is a lot of com­bi­na­tions for build­ing up a head­line. The basic shapes are a solid base for the star of this type­face — all the choic­es. You can make a ton of dif­fer­ent dis­play pieces with all these styles so get to designing.

 

State Rough Stencil

Foundry : Device Fonts

Designer(s) : Rian Hughes

Cost: $39

Straight-up retro cool is the best way I can think to describe State Rough Stencil by Rian Hughes. It has great sten­cil shapes, and I’m always a suck­er for tex­tured type. The fun thing about some­thing so futur­ist is you can give it a mod­ern twist or just indulge and go over­board with the 80s throw­back feel. You know you’ve seen an album cover, con­cert poster, hell maybe even a high-top sneak­er ad with some­thing like this. It’s cool and any­body that says oth­er­wise is lying.

 

Final Men­tions & Inspiration

• Attitude by Emil Kozole — Experimental, geo­met­ric sans-serif
• Yasakin by BMD Design — Hand let­tered logo and iden­ti­ty concepts
• Ut One by Ultra Types — Experimental black­let­ter with geo­met­ric construction
• Typographica Favorite Typefaces of 2012 — It goes with out say­ing, must read
• The Death of Google Reader — Long live RSS!
• Tiny Tiny RSS — I’m prob­a­bly going to roll my own feed read­er with this open source software
• Feedly — The pop­u­lar choice that seems to be fill­ing the void
• Pooping Pixel Pigeon — Come on, hilar­i­ous (Via Veerle)