Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 22

June 5, 2013 at 6:53 am

On the first Wednes­day of every month, I’m going to pull togeth­er some inspi­ra­tions and resources I have around and make some sweet desk­top wall­pa­pers. It’s usu­ally just going to be one or two at a time. They will be all over the place, from type relat­ed to what­ever cool pat­tern I might be dig­ging at the moment. As always, let me know what you like or if there is some­thing you want to see.

It’s Not a Bug. It’s a Feature.

This mon­th’s wall­pa­per is a com­bi­na­tion of two ideas I was kick­ing around. I start­ed work­ing on some pix­e­lat­ed icons when I thought of the bug and this old meme. I was also play­ing around with a dis­tressed, grunge bokeh idea. I liked how the two worked togeth­er — curves ver­sus straight lines and the blocks of can­vas and pixels.

Bug Feature Wallpaper Preview, canvas and bokeh textured computer wallpaper with pixel type and bug icon

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Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 20

December 5, 2012 at 11:10 pm

On the first Wednes­day of every month, I’m going to pull togeth­er some inspi­ra­tions and resources I have around and make some sweet desk­top wall­pa­pers. It’s usu­ally just going to be one or two at a time. They will be all over the place, from type relat­ed to what­ever cool pat­tern I might be dig­ging at the moment. As always, let me know what you like or if there is some­thing you want to see.

A Pixel Christmas

I don’t remem­ber how I ran across this hilar­i­ous idea, but it inspired me for this mon­th’s wall­pa­per. So I went 8‑bit again and got into the hol­i­day spir­it. Added a touch of green­ery for tex­ture and fes­tiv­i­ty, then fin­ished it off with Mota Pixel.

Pixel Christmas Wallpaper Preview

Wallpaper Preview — Pixel Christmas

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Headline Heads Up — No. 17

September 26, 2012 at 10:39 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.

Primus Script

Foundry : Katharina Putick
Designer(s) : Katharina Putick
Cost: FREE

Primus Script Alphabet - Typeface by Katharina Putick, Pixel Script Font

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Headline Heads Up — No. 12

February 13, 2012 at 10:57 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.

Stgotic

Foundry : Latinotype
Designer(s) : Daniel Hernández
Cost: $10

Stgotic Alphabet Example - Pixel Type, Pixel Blackletter, Blackletter Typography

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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

 

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