Handpicked Typefaces
Colvert, Achieving Harmony Through Diversity
Earlier this year the French typographies.fr joined FontShop as an exclusive foundry. Founded five years ago by Jonathan Perez – who was joined by Laurent Bourcellier a couple of weeks after its inception – the foundry’s mission is to create and distribute Latin and non-Latin typefaces, adhering to the highest aesthetic and linguistic standards. The typographies.fr typefaces [...]
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Discover Typographica’s “Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012”
The wait is finally over, and it was well worth it. Not a Best Of-list nor an Award, Typographica’s Our Favorite Typefaces of 2012 celebrates type design by inviting type connoisseurs – typographers, type and other designers, type commentators, … – to select one typeface released in the past year and write a review about it. This year’s [...]
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 moreLess Than 20 Days Left On Typodarium 2014
The tear-off calendar will offers daily typographic inspiration with 365 typefaces to discover throughout the whole year.
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Antithesis – A 3D Dance Film And Typeface By Yanone
On December 3rd 2012, a crowd funding campaign started for an unusual film project. The young Germany type designer and multimedia artist Yanone is making a dance music film, whose concept is borrowed from his typeface Antithesis. As Yanone is a good friend of the FontFeed and we are a fan of his work, we [...]
Read moreFS Me, A Type Family Designed For People With Learning Disabilities
In April 2008 Mencap, the UK’s leading charity and voice for those with learning disabilities, unveiled a new look as part of plans to move the organisation forward, making Mencap a more modern and dynamic organisation. Amongst the changes that usually occur in this kind of operation – a new logo, new colours, a new strapline, … – [...]
Read moreA Typographic Look Ahead At Rio 2016
As straight and angular as the London 2012 font by Alias was, as soft and round is the new custom typeface designed exlusively by Dalton Maag for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016. One of only a few bespoke fonts created by a Brazilian team, the Rio 2016™ font depicts [...]
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