Interesting free fonts

Check out this link for some free fonts.

http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/index.html

Handeye mag

http://www.handeyemagazine.com/

So, you need a typeface?

an infographic

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface

a Design Observer article by Michael Bierut.

Read.

BBC digital- a new visual language

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/02/a_new_global_visual_language_f.html

grids, layouts, typography and lots more.

link from Aparna Ranjan

Sherlock Holmes

I watched Sherlock Holmes yesterday. Although I missed the opening credits of the movie, I was glued to my seat for the closing credits of the film. Beautiful mix of illustration, calligraphy and ink blots.



Fully <3 ed it.

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The behind the scenes of the Sherlock Holmes credit sequence.
The link has the options that Prologue went through before they arrived at the final one.

http://graphic-exchange.com/exellence/prologue.htm

More on the Prologue website.
www.prologue.com

“ The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee.
It permits a number of possible uses and each
designer can look for a solution appropriate to his
personal style. But one must learn how to use the
grid; it is an art that requires practice. ”
Josef Müller-Brockmann

Serious/Solemn

TED Talks.
Paula Scher on the difference between being serious and being solemn (while designing).



Can also be viewed here.

Robots and Calligraphy ???

yes and that too in the gothic style... robotlab in Germany has trained an industrial robot in writing bible in the way scribes used to write before printing was invented. Check the link it's Awesome!!

link to the video: video

A Typographer and a Musician

http://www.daxo.de/

Hans Reichel (born 1949) is a musician/inventor/composer as well as being a type designer. For more than 30 years he’s made a name for himself as an accomplished acoustic and electric guitar player. He’s also the inventor of the Daxophone, an instrument where thin strips of wood are played with a bow to mimic animal sounds and human voices.He has designed FF Sari and FF Dax amongst others, both cousins of each other.

Check out the website to see what a musician + typographer can produce. The website might test your patience with its of interactive gimickiness, but still worth a look.

Type foundries

Links to some contemporary and some-not-so-contemporary type foundries. Links mostly from our very own guddu.

http://www.underware.nl
Underware is a graphic design studio which is specialized in designing and producing typefaces. These are often conventional in terms of legibility - yet functional, having concepts that seek for new visual, typographic and linguistic possibilities.
The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki.
We are based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam.

http://www.t26.com/

http://www.emigre.com/ (need I say anything?)

http://www.ourtype.be/

http://www.typofonderie.com/
Founded in 1994, Porchez Typofonderie is an independent digital type foundry in France.

http://www.lucasfonts.com/
Berlin-based Dutch type designer Luc(as) de Groot has worked with and for many well-known companies and publications. He has made custom fonts for prestigious newspapers such as Folha de S.Paulo, Le Monde, Metro and Der Spiegel in addition to creating corporate type for international companies including Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Heineken, Siemens and Miele. He designed two font families for Microsoft: the ‘monospaced’ font family Consolas, the new alternative to Courier; and Calibri, the new default typeface in MS Word.

De Groot founded his own type foundry, LucasFonts, in 2000.
Its aim, in a few words: to make the world a better place by designing typefaces that look good and work well under any circumstances and in many languages. Graphic designers across the planet have discovered the special qualities of Luc(as)’ fonts. They are attracted by their functionality and friendly appearance and love the enormous range of possibilities that each family offers. Many also appreciate the idiosyncrasies – a quest for extremes that has resulted in some of the narrowest, thinnest, wittiest or boldest typefaces around.

http://www.typography.com/home/index.php?affiliateID=
Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world's foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world's most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style.

Also check out -
http://typeneu.com/

Eric Spiekermann launches 'Axel' at typo Berlin'09

'Axel' Designed by Eric Spiekermann premiered at the Typo Berlin '09  festival. Axel an economical and highly legible font family is optimized for on-screen use in Office application such as Microsoft Excel. Axel uses 30% less space than other widely used fonts in the same area, without looking condensed.

Here's the link: AXEL

Faces classified!

Periodic table of typefaces

I am interested in notorious ones.

Hindi Rinny

Hindi Rinny is a blog that documents glimpses of Indic typefaces. Some of the images collected by the author Erin are fascinating. Have a look.

http://hindirinny.blogspot.com/

type design HISTORY in the making

departing from the usual approach of designing a font system as characters and weights, Peter Bil’ak has designed a font described best as


so what you get is a system comprised of 21 typefaces, which encompass styles ranging from renaissance to san serif to pixel fonts but share the same widths and other metric information. therefore not only can you use them as regular fonts, but you can recombine them in any number of combinations using an online layering software called the History Remixer.



ladies and gentlemen, presenting History!
http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/history

"3D" type

stephanie basically studied (and now teaches) ceramics,
but she does cool detailled stuff with words (as in type)

worth a look-see!

http://stephaniedearmond.com/gallery2.html

m a x k e r n i n g

i think you might need decent net speeds.


http://www.maxkerning.com/

funny

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766

Thought for the year

Johnson banks' look at the year that was.

http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/thoughtfortheweek/

Yulia

Amazing paper type by Yulia Brodskaya.