Fonts in Use
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My Type of Music
Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover and a band by its album art.
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ScreenFonts
A typographic look at today’s movie posters and film titles. (a.k.a. Characters on The Silver Screen)
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Lovely Lettering
Typography is made with type, but some of the best letters are made one at a time, by hand.
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Oops!
A light-hearted repository of amusing typos and typographic mishaps.
Looking For Images Of Letterpress Script Faces
I needed extra visual material for “From Metal Scripts to Digital Writing”, my presentation at TYPO Berlin 2012 “Sustain”.
Read moreScrabble Typography Limited Edition
The A-1 Scrabble Typography Edition is a beautiful limited edition of the timeless letter board game.
Read moreMan & Gun And Les Bleus de Ramville Win SXSW Film Design Awards
The results for the 2012 SXSW Film Design Awards for Excellence in Poster and Title Design.
Read moreSXSW Aftermath – Adventures In Film
A round-up of what I attended at the Film component of SXSW 2012.
Read moreScreenFonts: Chronicle, Perfect Sense, The Innkeepers, Bullhead, Gone
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Read moreTrajan in Movie Posters at SXSW in half an hour
A semi-serious investigation about the most popular typeface in movie poster history.
Read moreFontShop Fan Video Celebrates Typeface Diversity
This advertisement aimed at non-designers shows how expressive fonts can be and how many different ways there are to visualise one word.
Read moreBen l’Oncle Soul Recreates Vintage Motown Look
The music video for “Soul Man” inventively integrates design and typography in the footage to visualise the lyrics.
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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.
Related Posts
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- Bold Formal Scripts
- We get a lot of requests for fancy scripts. A font with a calligraphic touch is often the best option…Read more
- The Magic That Is Letterpress
- Some of you digital age kids ;) may not recognize what the images in our introductory post are, so maybe…Read more
- Lovely Video Shows The Process Of Letterpress Printing
- Graphic and motion designer Naomi Ross produced a gorgeous instructional video showing the process of printing letterpress with wood type.…Read more
- Letterpress: A Celebration
- On Friday 7 November 2008, St Bride Library organizes a one-day conference called Letterpress: A Celebration. According to their press…Read more


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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.