Changeling is the screen font on the mon­i­tor dis­plays of the U.S.S. Enter­prise in the new Star Trek movie.

The win­ning book covers designs for the Pen­guin Design Awards 2009 are show­cased on the Pen­guin Books website.

This sped up footage of Mike Kus design­ing his slides for his FOWD London 2009 pre­sen­ta­tion reveals the cre­ative process behind them.

The Font­Feed edi­tors and col­lab­o­ra­tors wish you and your loved ones a ter­rific new year.

 
The latest issue of Font mag­a­zine is hot off the press, and it’s free. Check your FontShop sub­scrip­tion set­tings to make sure you are sub­scribed.
In Font 006, we visit design from South Africa, Sara­jevo, São Paulo, Iran, and Havana. You can take the jour­ney to the web, too. Here is a detailed table of contents, […]

 
In Font 006, Tony de Marco clears away the clut­ter to reveal São Paulo’s ban on adver­tis­ing. His pho­tographs tell the story of what remained ear­lier this year when Brazil’s eco­nomic cap­i­tal enacted new “clean city” leg­is­la­tion that out­lawed all forms of out­door adver­tis­ing.
Here are some of de Marco’s remark­able shots that couldn’t make it […]

Over three decades in devel­op­ment, aerosol art has grown into a com­plex and sys­tem­atic hand let­ter­ing art­form. World­wide, prac­ti­tion­ers have devel­oped regional com­mon­al­i­ties lead­ing to dis­tinct geo­graph­i­cal styles. While “style writ­ers” intro­duce new ideas, their dis­cov­er­ies echo through­out the inter­na­tional graffiti community.
Thanks to the inter­net, the fusion of style has become common prac­tice among the new […]

Fred Smei­jers, the award-​winning designer of FF Quadraat and fonts for Our­Type, and author of “Coun­ter­punch,” describes the trou­ble with “leg­i­bil­ity” — not just in achiev­ing it as a goal, but describ­ing it as a concept.