Posts by Yves Peters
Valentype | Testify and Win The Typeface You Love!
Declare your love for a typeface and you could win an official single license to four weights/styles of that face.
Read moreScreenFonts: Zero Dark Thirty, The Impossible, On The Road, Django Unchained
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreBest Of 2012
The first month of 2013 has come to a close, and as usual the type commentators reflect on the past year. Due to the complexity of the undertaking we have to exercise a little more patience for Typographica’s eagerly anticipated Our Favourite Typefaces of 2013, or as I like to call them the “unofficial Oscars [...]
Read moreMacula, The Impossible Typeface
Once in a while you come across a typeface that astounds you by the bold new direction it takes. The recent Bold Monday release Macula by Dutch type designer Jacques Le Bailly a.k.a. Baron von Fonthausen is such a typeface. There aren’t that many designs that manage to sucessfully marry type design to art, and [...]
Read moreNew Tumblr Takes Hilarious Look At Typeface Design
It’s a most unlikely combination to produce actually funny content and yet it works. Today French type designer Jean-Baptiste Levée launched the Tumblr F*** Yeah Typeface Design, delving into the psyche of type designers and exposing the everyday occurrences in their work, their struggle with huge glyph sets and uncooperative type design software, kerning and [...]
Read moreJessica Hische Lettering Rendered In Cut Paper
It always seems magical when a piece of graphic design transcends the flat plane and enters the third dimension. The resulting object lends an additional legitimacy to the original piece, rejuvenating it and altering our perception of it. Take for example Jessica Hische’s gorgeous hand-lettered packaging for Beck’s Song Reader. Released on December 11, 2012, [...]
Read moreMy Type of Music: Holly Herndon, The Rolling Stones, Green Day, Led Zeppelin, Rihanna
An overview of covers of recently released albums.
Read moreInside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals Explores The Space Between The Characters
I have said this numerous times over the past few years – now is a great time to be into typography. Typographic production is at an all-time high, digital font technology allows for unequalled typographic refinement, the general public has never been more aware of typography, and last year again a number of fascinating books [...]
Read moreThe FontFeed is a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world. Eat up.
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The latest in the world of typography, lettering, and type design.
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Specimens are nice, but we love to catch a typeface in the wild, where it can truly show how it performs in the real world.