1. Thomas

   I made my own discovery of Stefan Hattenbach’s Anziano whilst catching up on some FontShop newsletters a few weeks ago. As you say Johno, it’s certainly a beautiful type - what with showcasing the ornaments, I take it you have made your purchase?

   Oh, and I appreciate the little fanfare for Sunday Type’s header :-)

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

2. johno (iLT)

   Thomas
   That Anziano header will reappear some time in the future. I’ve now changed it for one set in Beorcana. I don’t have a license for Beorcana (sadly, I can’t buy every type I like, or I’d be penniless). And re Anziano: just a review license. Thanks for dropping by, Thomas.

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

3. RogueJunkie

   Thanks for my Sunday fix, John!

   Colour in the header? Other than red? Have you gone mad?!

   I have some ideas for the FontBook cometition, so expect something different.I don’t know if I’m being too critical, but I think the “Typenuts” kerning is a bit tight in “Ty”. It might be just me. But I like it. Also loved the ornaments in Anziano (I’m REALLY going to have to charge you if I keep buying stuff I see here).

   Anyways, thanks for all the cool links and news; it should set me up until Wednesday!!

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

4. Paul Robinson

   Love the Iphone wallpaper!

   I’m giving away a copy of Helvetica the Movie if any of your readers are interested in entering. http://kupuk.com/2008/01/27/helvetica-movie-contest/

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

5. paul.

   I’m loving Beorcana! I’ve been really into fonts similar to this one recently, and this is my favorite so far. Wish I had the money to buy fonts these days.

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

6. miha

   huray, I am going to get a book, I can’t believe it:D Well, John, in case you still want to send it in Slovenia, I sent you a mail:)

   Comment on article: Beorcana is an excellent typeface, and it’s special too. Well, I’ve also noticed that you changed banner from Anziano to Beorcana - I just had to mention this:D

   As RogueJunkie said, this is my Sunday fix too - iLT2:)

   And looking forward how TypeNuts will look like.

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

7. stupidlovesong

   it’s almost completely off, but could anyone help me to identify the typeface used on this cover:
   http://www.lira.hu/media/corporate/boritok/a_pendragon_legenda.jpg
   thanks in advance….

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

8. jason sherwin

   Hello Johno,

   Thanks so much for spending a portion of your sunday on this post! I am a new subscriber and this link to download Anziano made my day.

   ^Jan27²⁰⁰⁸

9. Stephen Coles

   stupidlovesong - The font you’re looking for is Caslon Antique. In the future, use Typophile for font ID requests.

   ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

10. inspirationbit

    I’m glad you’re turning the Mel Gibson joke into a contest, your way of re-phrasing it was priceless, looks forward to other typemoviegems ;-) Good luck with TypeNuts site. Is it going to have the white text on the black background?

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

11. Hamish M

    Haha, thanks for posting it John! It was fun to make (and you gotta love Braveheart.)

    I encourage everyone to enter the contest, I can already see some other great possibilities.

    Thanks for reminding me of the iPhone wallpapers. I think I’ll make some. (Too bad I have no iPhone to test them on, hehe.)

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

12. johno (iLT)

    RogueJunkie
    >Have you gone mad!? Probably :)
    It was a tough call — a colour in the header. Next week: dancing monkeys ;) That ty might be a little tight; depends on your personal taste.
    Really looking forward to your FontBook competition entries.

    Pual Robinson
    Pleased you like the wallpaper. I’ll post some more when I get the chance.

    Miha
    Congratulations. Your email made me laugh. I’ll post the book tomorrow. No doubt you’ll see an Anziano header when I get around to interviewing Stefan.

    Jason
    Welcome to iLT. A pleasure to see you here and contributing.

    Stephen
    Thanks.

    Vivien (inspirationbit)
    typemoviegems — now there’s an idea. Typenuts will only have the header reversed out. The body text will be dark on light.

    Hamish
    I don’t have an iPhone either, but I noticed that Gemma (in the comments to the iPhone wallpaper page) used it for her regular mobile phone. I’ve already received a few entries for the movie competition — impressive. Thanks, Hamish.

    Everyone:
    Started putting together a Flickr set of headers/mastheads used on iLT.

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

13. Hamish M

    John
    Good to know, at least we can get some feedback then.

    And I look forward to seeing the contest entries. I never thought my little photo-manip would turn into this. :)

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

14. David Airey

    For a free font, Anziano looks great. Already downloaded.

    Cheers Johno.

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

15. Robert

    Good stuff John! I’m glad you put that Everything You Thought We’d Forgotten video I showed you up on there. I hope everyone got a kick out of it like I did. If anyone wants more information on how the technology works check out http://www.nexttext.net/ and http://obxlabs.hexagram.ca/

    Looks like typenuts is underway, I cant wait! I’m sure it will grow in popularity just like iLT did. And the Mel Gibson thing is classic. I already got ideas for what I’m gonna do :) Good stuff!

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

16. Zacharias

    Lies! That’s not a screengrab of braveheart.

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

17. johno (iLT)

    Hamish
    Yes, you’ve started something there. Dying to show some of the entries I’ve received.

    David
    Good to hear. I love the italic too.

    Robert
    Thanks for the additional links. i’m off to take a look.

    Zacharias
    You’re right, in fact; it’s actually a screen grab from the out-takes;)

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

18. johno (iLT)

    Just a quick word on the competition: your PhotoShop manipulations don’t have to be great — it’s the idea or the setting that counts.

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

19. sharpstick

    3. Some time ago, Emigre promised that as their stock of back issues sold out, they’d re-publish some of the content on their web site. I like this one: The Art of Type Founding.

    I have the poster this was printed on hanging on my wall right now (Not Caslon). It takes me back to my student design days when I could only dream of being able to afford an Emigre font.

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

20. leah

    I can’t wait to see the winner and the runners-up of this competition! Type and Mel Gibson in a kilt together in one image sure got me going, can’t wait to see what else you guys come up with!

    Great Sunday Type as usual, and I love those ornaments! Their refined grace makes my whole day.

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

21. leah

    Some Q’s about the competition…

    When is the deadline?

    Are we voting on them or are you choosing them? I vote for a popular vote. Anyone else?

    ^Jan28²⁰⁰⁸

22. Michael

    Any chance those wallpapers work for WinMo phones?

    ^Jan29²⁰⁰⁸

23. johno (iLT)

    sharpstick
    I only wish I’d kept my copies of Emigre…ouch!

    Leah
    I’ll announce a deadline on Sunday.

    Michael
    Let me know which wallpaper(s) and size you need, and I’ll put one together for you.

    ^Jan29²⁰⁰⁸

24. Andrew

    A little off topic this… but… a BIG congratulations to John for ilovetypography’s nomination as ‘Best Asian blog’ in this year’s Bloggies awards

    Maybe John is too modest to trumpet his nomination (I certainly can’t find mention of it anywhere on his site), but he is in incredible company rubbing shoulders with Engadget, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and a number of other A-list blogs. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed John’s wonderful writing and sense of humour over the last three months and think his is a most deserving nomination.

    I’m off now to vote for ilovetypography (and for Vince La’s WebDesignersWall in the ‘Best designed weblog’ category) and hope a few other readers might join me in appreciation of John’s awesome efforts over the last six months.

    Best of luck John and congratulations again!

    ^Jan29²⁰⁰⁸

25. hussein

    i’ve identified the fonts above.. but i didn’t knew that there where a competition is running.. :P

    guys.. i’m in love with this blog.. i’m ready to spend the rest of my life right here..

    ^Jan29²⁰⁰⁸

26. johno (iLT)

    Andrew
    Thanks for blowing the iLT trumpet. I guess I should vote too :)

    hussein
    Welcome to iLT. Be sure to take food and water breaks.

    ^Jan30²⁰⁰⁸

27. leah

    Andrew, Thanks for mentioning the Bloggies and where to go to vote. I had no idea about them, so this is one more person to vote for iLT who wouldn’t have otherwise!

    Hussein, Yeah, I think if it were possible to move into the iLT building, a lot of us would have done so already. The view from here is pretty sweet, and the neighbours are all awesome. Not to mention the fact that any words or digits in the building — including the numbers on the doors — are set in incredibly stylish type.

    ^Jan30²⁰⁰⁸

28. johno (iLT)

    

    ^Jan31²⁰⁰⁸

29. TypoJunkie

    That was fun! I saw the same concept as a student project, but with more interesting buildings, which resembled the letters a little bit better. Although he just did the 26 uppercase letters.

    ^Jan31²⁰⁰⁸

30. miha

    When can we move into iLT building? (and in which typeface is it? “i” has a very strange serif!)

    Andrew, thank you for mentioning bloggies awards. But I can understand John not to mention it by himself; it doesn’t matter how many awards will iLT receive, there will always be iLT typography fans, ready to start typographic revolution, burning all heretic books set in C**** Sans, removing all bad kerning etc etc!

    (ok, I admit it. I was reading iLT archives too much, resulting at such enthusiasm:)

    ^Jan31²⁰⁰⁸

31. hussein

    :D

    ^Feb2²⁰⁰⁸

32. Joe Clark

    “Beorcana” is four syllables, not three. The first two syllables are [ˌbiːor] in IPA.

    ^Feb9²⁰⁰⁸

33. Becca

    Shucks, I miss the free font. There is a new one there now. Is there a way to get that lovely Anziano font. Thanks! Becca

    ^Mar18²⁰⁰⁸

34. johno (iLT)

    Becca
    Not sure what you can do besides buying it. Perhaps an email to its designer, Stefan?

    ^Mar18²⁰⁰⁸

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