A Spare Update — No. 2

September 18, 2011 at 9:35 pm

I’m way behind this mon­th’s nor­mal post­ing sched­ule so I’m going to wrap up this mon­th’s Wallpaper Wednesday and Headline Heads-Up into one big update post.

I’ve got­ten behind because it is now September, and here in the south­ern United States that means col­lege foot­ball. As a way of cel­e­brat­ing the start of the sea­son, I put togeth­er some but­tons hon­or­ing my alma mater — as well as our neme­sis. They turned out to be more pop­u­lar than I expect­ed. Get your own over at the shop and keep me busy.

Auburn and Alabama Pinback Buttons - Toomers Corner, Toomers Oaks, Denny Chimes, Tiger Paw

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Headline Heads Up — No. 8

August 9, 2011 at 6:13 pm

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.

FF Screen Logger Cool

Foundry : FontFont
Designer(s) : Kai Vermehr
Cost: FREE

Screen Logger Cool Alphabet - by Kai Vermehr

First up is a great pixel font avail­able for free over at FontFont. It’s actu­al­ly part of a pack­age of free pixel fonts — FF SubVario. There’s a set of six pro­por­tion­al pixel and six mono-spaced fonts. Then three fonts in the Screen Logger fam­i­ly. Screen Logger Cool has the most per­son­al­i­ty in the set main­ly because of its out­lined form. It also comes with a use­ful Back ver­sion for eas­i­ly lay­er­ing two-tone ver­sions. Check out the pack­age to see sam­ples of the SubVario and SubMono, then go ahead and grab it because it’s FREE!

Two-Tone Layering with Screen Logger Cool and Back (Teeanage Ninja Zombie Altered Ego Snapping Amphibian))

 

Appetite

Foundry : Dzianis Serabrakou
Designer(s) : Denis Serebryakov
Cost: $49 per style

Appetite Typeface - Upright Script by Denis Serebryakov

Next up is Appetite which is best described as a bold, upright script, sans-serif. Yes, it cer­tain­ly does blend a ton togeth­er and pulls it off extra­or­di­nar­i­ly well. The sweep of the strokes builds great per­son­al­i­ty that is rein­forced by the weight. Given the script influ­ence there are some nice stan­dard and dis­cre­tionary lig­a­tures to enjoy. Then there is an ital­ic if you need to switch it up a bit in your head­line or pack­ag­ing design. Be sure to go check out the font and see how it might work for you, and take a look at the design­er’s Behance page as there is some great work there too.

Appetite Typeface Example - Made Up Wheat Crackers

 

Samantha

Foundry : Laura Wor­thing­ton
Designer(s) : Laura Wor­thing­ton
Cost: $75 for the Pro version

Samantha Upright Script Alphabet - Typeface by Laura Worthington

I’m going to con­tin­ue down the upright script path with the lat­est release from the always impres­sive Laura Worthington. You’re going to want to get the Pro ver­sion and its 2,715 glyphs which includes 60 orna­ments, 45 pre-built catch­words, and 2,200 swash vari­a­tions. As expect­ed, every­thing is extreme­ly well exe­cut­ed. The ridicu­lous amount of options will keep you busy find­ing the per­fect let­ters. Here’s just a taste of some of the orna­ments and catch­words in the image below. (And a link to the orig­i­nal image on Flickr because its a nice pic­ture) Buy Samantha Upright Script on MyFonts.com

Introducing Miss Monday - Samantha Catchwords and Ornaments

 

Final Men­tions to Check Out

Headline Heads Up — No. 7

July 19, 2011 at 8:05 am

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.

Vintage Vectors Ornamental Letters

Foundry : Unknown
Designer(s) : Unknown
Cost: FREE

Ornamental Letters on Vintage Vectors

First on the list this month is not a font at all but an .EPS of over-the-top orna­men­tal let­ters. They are full of tex­ture and old world looks. They would work great as a drop-cap or blown up real big as a back­ground ele­ment. There’s a ton of other great vec­tors of vin­tage engrav­ings over on VintageVectors.com so go check them out.

 

Sugar Pie

Foundry : Sudtipos
Designer(s) : Alejandro Paul
Cost: $79

Sugar Pie by Sudtipos

Next is the lat­est release from Sudtipos. I seri­ous­ly can­not get enough from these guys. Sugar Pie is an amaz­ing brush script with swoop­ing curves that cul­mi­nate in sharp point­ed ter­mi­nals. Nicely weight­ed strokes and plen­ty of per­son­al­i­ty let this type real­ly hold a space which makes it per­fect for pack­ag­ing or point of pur­chase sig­nage — espe­cial­ly in food relat­ed appli­ca­tions. And of course being from Sudtipos, there are plen­ty of extra alter­nate char­ac­ters and lig­a­tures to keep things inter­est­ing and help vary your words. So open up that glyph palette and dig into Sugar Pie.

Sugar Pie Typeface - Brush Script Type used to set "Amazing Apples"

 

Marlowe

Foundry : FaceType
Designer(s) : Marcus Sterz
Cost: $80 for a family of 4 styles

Marlowe Regular Alphabet by FaceType

I’ve been hold­ing on to this a few weeks after see­ing it in a Typedia post. Marlowe is a fam­i­ly of four styles; the basis is an Art Deco sans serif. Then comes the vari­ants — Cocktail, Swirl, and Escapade. They build on the reg­u­lar in dif­fer­ent ways, and its real­ly hard to explain all of them. So take a look at the sam­ple below to get a bet­ter idea. There’s also some OpenType lig­a­tures and alter­nates through out the styles, so check those out too. Pick up copies on FaceType’s web­site or over on Fontspring with @font-face web licensing.

Marlowe Showcase of 4 Styles - Regular, Cocktail, Swirl, Escapade

Marlowe Ligatures Showing Unique Letter Combinations

 

Quintet

Foundry : ShoType Design
Designer(s) : Kunihiko Okano
Cost: Unknown

Quintet Script Typeface - Formal Script Fonts Built for Layering

Last on the list this month is more an inspi­ra­tion piece. For now, it’s still stu­dent work and not for sale any­where. Part of the TypeMedia 2011 class, Kunihiko Okana has put togeth­er some­thing truly amaz­ing — a for­mal script with five vari­a­tions built for lay­er­ing and off­set­ting to build ele­gant head­lines and dis­play pieces. You have to go check out the port­fo­lio page on TypeMedia2011.org to see more great com­bi­na­tions along with an accom­pa­ny­ing Quintet Serif to carry body copy. You bet­ter believe as soon as this becomes avail­able for use, I’m jump­ing all over it.

Quintet Script Example "Beautiful Day" - Three layered formal script

 Final Mentions to Check Out

Headline Heads Up — No. 6

June 14, 2011 at 10:01 pm

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.

Codswallop

Foundry : Hanoded
Designer(s) : David Kerkhoff
Cost: $20 per style

Uppercase glyphs of Codswallop

First on this mon­th’s eye catch­ing menagerie is Codswallop. And it’s not just because of the name. Something about the rough edges of hand drawn — or made to look hand drawn — type just pulls me in. The font has its lim­i­ta­tions as the upper­case and low­er­case let­ters are iden­ti­cal, but it does have accent­ed char­ac­ters, basic fl and fi lig­a­tures, and numer­als built for frac­tions. I love the weight and heavy hand­ed­ness of it. The rea­son I’m men­tion­ing Codswallop though is because it has a family.

  • Regular
  • Italic
  • Condensed
  • Condensed Italic
  • Extra Condensed
  • Extra Condensed Italic

That leaves room for play­ing crazy like the exam­ple below. Also, check out that freak­ing awe­some @ sym­bol. Try it out your­self over on MyFonts.

SpareType showing various styles of Codswallop mixed together

Sugar @ 7pm showcasing the Codswallop letterforms

 

I thought about show­ing off Florentin 2D. But now that I came back and looked at it some more, I’m a lit­tle iffy. It’s got an inter­est­ing idea going on with the extra chop­py gravure style. Maybe it’ll grow on me and I’ll come back to it again. Take a look at it and tell me what you think in the comments.

Florentin 2D by Viktor Kharyk of 2D Typo Foundry

 

The final men­tion for this week’s Headline Heads Up goes out FontDeals.com — a new project start­ed by Jay Hilgert of Bittbox.com and Brush Pilot™. It’s an absolute­ly crazy deal on a whole hand­ful of fonts. $49 for 29 font files. And these are some awe­some look­ing and well craft­ed fonts. I’ve pur­chased my set and am still wad­ing through the pos­si­bil­i­ties for the range of appli­ca­tions. It’s just too good a deal to pass up. Go check it out! Remember, there’s 24 more fonts includ­ed in the pack than what I’m show­ing below! It’s crazy.

5 Fonts from the FontDeals.com Summer 2011 Pack

Headline Heads Up — No. 5

May 11, 2011 at 4:40 am

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

Reina Typeface - Didone, Calligraphy Inspiration - Elegant Swashes

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.

Reina's Awesome Ampersand

Reina Typeface - Kiss Passion Fragrance Heart Love

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Headline Heads Up — No. 4

April 13, 2011 at 3:27 am

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.

Miltonian

Foundry : Pablo Impallari
Designer(s) : Pablo Impallari
Cost: FREE

Miltonian Typeface by Pablo Impallari - Tattoo Lettering Opened and Filled

So, I was perus­ing the Google web fonts list and noticed this addi­tion by the same guy who did Lobster which I already show­cased a while back. The trend of the two ver­sions — one open and one fill — strikes again. The type­face ref­er­ences a dis­tinct tat­too style with its rough edges, high con­trast, and slight embell­ish­ments. It’s because of the uneven­ness that a long text set­ting never gets into a real rhythm. It does have punc­tu­a­tion, accents, and enough char­ac­ters to cover the Latin char­ac­ter set so there is some flex­i­bil­i­ty there.

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Headline Heads Up — No. 3

March 8, 2011 at 10:51 pm

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.

So, I sat down to round up some good dis­play faces today and sit­ting in my email was the lat­est Rising Stars from MyFonts. It’s like most of my work — at least the search­ing — was done for me. So that gave me a good start­ing point, and I just want­ed to give cred­it where cred­it is due.

Delight Script

Foundry : Sudtipos
Designer(s) : Angel Koziupa, Alejandro Paul
Cost: $59 USD

Delight Script by Sudtipos - Alphabet

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Headline Heads Up — No. 2

December 15, 2010 at 2:18 am

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.

Fatquad 4F

Foundry : 4th february
Designer(s) : Sergiy Tkachenko
Cost: $30 USD

Fatquad 4F - Alphabet

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