Sunday Type: incubator type
Coffee Hot, Tea Cold
Who says House don’t make metal type. This looks like metal to me; though larger than your average type, and weighing in at 8kg. I love it. Unfortunately it’s sold out! [Have since heard from the Houses’s mouth that the Cast Iron Ampersands, pictured, are now available]. There are, however, a number of cast aluminium ones left. But I want need this one:
And one of the best type tees I’ve ever seen:
Also from House Industries, of course.
New Type
Looks like Jos Buivenga is on a roll. Hot on the heels of Museo and an extended Anivers, he’s released an updated version of his very popular Fertigo. Fertigo Pro includes wider language support, redrawn glyps, and a number of ornaments, in addition to some major tweaking on the metrics and kerning front; and, on top of all that it costs…nothing. Download, use, enjoy.
Congratulations to the two classes of 2008 from both Reading and the Hague. I received a great poster showcasing the types created by students on the Type and Media course (nightmare to find anything on the site, unfortunately). Thanks Mathieu for the great poster. I’ll post some scans of it soon. And you can take a peek at Dan Reynolds’ (Reading) Martel. More details to come soon.
Will you be at TypeCon 2008? So who would like to report on the event for iLT? Send me a mail if you’d like to do so.
TypeCon begins today! The full program schedule is here, and details of workshops here. Wish they had some live streaming video events or podcasts. I shall definitely try to get along next year.
Wonderful ‘poster’ from talented illustrator and graphic designer, Frank Chimero:
And just one more of Frank’s pieces:
Be sure to check out his other work on Flickr and on his web site makemakemake.org.
I’d love to have a poster of this design from Tim Fishlock:
Via the brilliant It’s Nice That.
A nice wallpaper to adorn your desktop:
Thanks for the link, kristarella on twitter. And, though this has been done a lot before, this one by Jenny Beorkrem is just perfect:
Jose Rodriguez’s Type Is Art is a wonderful little project I found through a piece in the Buffalo News:
Make your own art with parts of letterforms. Each element is show at the bottom (e.g. shoulder, tail, bar, ascender, et. al.), and can be dragged, scaled and rotated on your typographic canvas. Enjoy.
I’ve mentioned the work of Craig Ward several times before, but somehow missed this gem, found via Designer Daily:
Some good lettering from Andrew DeGraff:
Via designformankind.com.
Sunday Links
Workarounds for Win ATM (and MMs) on Vista
A Brief History of Avant Garde
Magazine Inspiration—Veerle
Quark for InDesign users—part one; part two
Typesites’ review of Monocle
H&FJ—the smallest type in the world
What does a type designer’s handwriting say about his or her type? In my opinion, absolutely nothing. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to see:
I’m no type designer, but here’s a sample of my handwriting:
Why don’t you show me yours (send to jboardley@gmail.com). Thanks Andy & Miguel.
A nice signage Flickr set. particularly like this weathered script:
Like this photo from Kris Johnson:

The Typophile annual t-shirt design ‘battle’ was a particularly good one this year, and I’m a big fan of the winning entry from Rajpurohit from Ahmedabad, India:
The Incubator from the Village type foundry looks like a great idea. They’ll be showcasing (and selling, of course) work by new and talented type designers. Its launch marks Village’s three-year anniversary. Happy birthday to everyone at Village.
Love these sketches for Michael Doret’s wonderful Metroscript. Be sure to take a look at the MyFonts In Your Face newsletter.
Today’s Type
FP Dancer Pro, a sans serif with some real character—by Danish designer Morten Olsen:
Love the black weight “X”:
Today’s masthead is set in FP Dancer Pro light and bold.
Coming Up
iLT’s first birthday is fast approaching (August 7th). If you have any ideas as to how we might celebrate it (or rather celebrate type), then let me know. An article on Letterpress is coming up, and that interview with the designer of one of my recent favourite serifs. Apologies that this week’s Sunday Type was (even) later than usual. Thanks for reading. See you all again midweek.






























36 comments * comment * trackback
Chris
God, I’m such an ass but you have two typos. Fertigo is missing a ‘t’ in one spelling and celebrate is missing an ‘e’ in another. Don’t hate the spelling ass.
Aside my own neurosis thanks for putting together such a great round-up.
Jul 15, 2008
johno
Chris
Not an ass at all. I really appreciate it when readers pick up on typos and let me know. Now fixed. Thanks very much.
Jul 15, 2008
inspirationbit
oh, I really like your new styling of the comments form, nicely done. Will you be keeping the same style for the images?
You’ve got a pretty legible handwriting. Thanks for featuring it here. I see you like your “t”s, and the curves of your capital N and R are pretty sleek too :)
Some pretty impressive type examples today (as usual). Off to downloading Jos Buivenga’s Fertigo Pro. Thank you, Jos.
Jul 15, 2008
johno
inspirationbit
Thanks, Vivien. Yes, I think I will keep the formatting for the images (back to normal for the next article). I still have lots of minor things to do; and the footer, of course!
Jul 15, 2008
Sander
That Cast Iron Ampersand is superb. Also great other items from housind, thanks for sharing (+ gives me an ideas).
Congrats to Jos for the release of Fertigo Pro! Gefeliciteerd.
And Love those type & signage photos, thanks and have a great week. (and get well soon)
Jul 15, 2008
Jos Buivenga (exljbris)
Another lovely Sunday Type!
johno, thanks for paying generous attention to Fertigo Pro.
Thank you inspirationbit & Sander.
Jul 15, 2008
David Airey
I’m also really liking your tweaks to the comment form (and comments). With your images back to normal in the next post they’ll tie very well together.
Thanks very much to Jos for offering the free type downloads, and thanks to you, Johno, for mentioning my new logo designers website.
Jul 15, 2008
Quakeulf
Me likes all the beautiful typestuff on this site very much, it’s like the typophile’s version of Smashingmagazine.com. >:3~
Jul 15, 2008
Pedro Leal
Lot’s of interesting stuff this week really the rusty &, i already had seen the aluminum one somewhere but that one is perfect, and the black “X” thats beautiful two.
I’m really interested on that post with work of student’s from the hague since I’ll try to enter 2010 class. Oh, and I’ll also send you my handwriting as soon as i get my scanner to work.
Keep up the good work!
P.S.: Hope you’re feeling better!
Jul 15, 2008
Dan Reynolds
Thanks for the link! But my last name is Reynolds, not Williams :(
Jul 15, 2008
Manuel Sesma (heterotype)
Thank you so much for posting my flickr photos, specially because some of this signages (dated from 1920s) will disappear next month (not a joke).
Segovia (Spain) is one of the UNESCO World Heritage site; unfortunately this vernacular signages has never be considered cultural heritage here. Because of that, I’m working as a «archeographist» on my own town.
Thanks for ilt every week! :)
Jul 15, 2008
Hamish M
Oh, that ampersand t-shirt is awesome. What’s the typeface on that?
And that type-plate is making me hungry, hehe; Craig Ward has got some sweet designs.
Your handwriting is great, and I really liked the article on the handwriting of type designers — though mine isn’t something I like to show off too often, it’s mostly illegible. Heh.
Looking forward to upcoming articles, and of course, iLT’s birthday. :)
Jul 15, 2008
Amber
Your handwriting is awesome!
Jul 15, 2008
johno
Sander
Look forward to hearing about (or seeing the results of) those ideas.
David
Quakeulf
Thanks for the generous comparison.
Pedro
Thanks. Hope you get accepted on the course—would be wonderful.
Dan REYNOLDS
I should post a photo here of me hanging my head in shame. Now corrected. Now back to my course of self-flagellation.
Manuel
My pleasure. You’re doing a great thing there. “Archeographist”—like it.
Hamish
I was going to ask if anyone could name that ampersand. Anyone? By all means, send your handwriting sample anyway.
Amber
Thanks. Now show me yours :)
Jul 15, 2008
Dan Reynolds
Johno
No need, no need… I myself make typing errors on and offline all the time ;-)
Jul 15, 2008
Matt Edwards
I’ve been reading for a while, but never commented. I just wanted to say I thanks for running such a fantastic blog. I’ve learned so much and found so much from here. So, thanks!
Jul 15, 2008
Matt Edwards
Please esxcuse the “I” in the second sentence there!
Jul 15, 2008
Matt Edwards
Gee, and that “s” that just snuck into “excuse.”
Jul 15, 2008
Deb
Super great items Johno! I’m glad I had a chance to read this time around.
I’d be interested to see everyone’s handwriting and what do you think it means when you have more than one handwriting style? I suffer from that.
Jul 15, 2008
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
Hi John! Long time no talk… Creative Curio’s one year birthday is coming up on August 1st! Gosh, I can’t believe it’s been a year. I have no idea what I’ll do to celebrate. I just don’t have time to coordinate anything like a big giveaway. I can’t believe you have almost 20k subscribers in less than a year. That’s fantastic!!
I love your handwriting, John. It has so much character (excuse the pun). Is that really how you write all the time or were you trying to be extra neat? I compared it to the signed copy I received from you of 700 Penguins and it looks even better in person ;)
And guess what!! I’ve started my letterpress class! Don’t know if I like it or not yet (haven’t worked on the presses), but we get to do one card project to keep. I think I’m going to do a thank you card because it’s something I can use often. I’m excited to get going on the presses. I’ve started cleaning up a Vandercook SP15, but I’m afraid of all the rust it has :(
Jul 16, 2008
David Airey
Johno
Lauren
Your letterpress class sounds interesting. I hope you’ll show us the results of your card project. :)
Jul 16, 2008
adelle
great sunday type! I look forward to this every week. Thanks for including my Typography is sexy post too! Keep up the amazing work - great eye.
Jul 16, 2008
Kyle Meyer
Little late to the party, but I’m quite anxious for the letterpress post. Can’t wait!
Keep up the great work Johno, excellent additions to the iLT site theme as well.
Jul 16, 2008
LaurenMarie - Creative Curio
Oh, ok, David! It actually hadn’t occurred to me to share the card on my blog, but duh, that’s a great idea!!
Kyle, were you talking about me and my class? Or did I miss something in the article? I love letterpress projects, now to see if I actually like producing them! I can see myself loving it (the evolution of a project and actually producing it myself) and I can see myself hating it (tedious work fraught with mechanical problems)…
And John, thanks for including my articles on Quark for InDesign Users. I didn’t even notice until just now *blush*
Jul 16, 2008
Michał
Hey, this funky x looks like chromosome!
And I love coffee/tea poster!
Jul 17, 2008
Robert
Another amazing Sunday Type. First things first, that ampersand t-shirt is very cool I just bought it yesterday. Jos Buivenga keep up the amazing work, Fertigo Pro is very nice. I plan on sending you my hand writing John, I’m curious to see everyone else’s.
Jul 18, 2008
Sachin
That Iron Ampersand is stunning and never seen before. I love those tees.
Jul 18, 2008
Yaco
Hi Johno. I love the Sunday type. With so much nice type used, is it possible to point out which typefaces were used in each piece?
Keep up the good work?
Jul 18, 2008
jalmarjalla
Thanks for the add. Love your site. Just wanted to mention a few cool things from the “hidden manual” of Type is Art:
You can hold down the Space key and use the arrow keys to move all forms at the same time. Option and Command keys + arrow keys lets you move/rotate individual forms as well.
Jul 19, 2008
johno
Matt
No problem. Nice to know I’m not the only one.
Deb
So nice to see you here again. Hope that all is well. Working on any more gorgeous spreads?
Lauren
That’s my handwriting at normal speed. If I’m taking notes, however, then it’s pretty illegible. I’ll scan a page from my Moleskine and post to Flickr.
Robert
Be sure to send me a photo of you wearing it!
Sachin
Yes, it is great. I’m thinking of buying one myself. The shipping to Japan is pretty reasonable considering its weight.
Yaco
I mention some; though to list every type would be quite a task. If there are type you’d like identified, then by all means ask.
jalmarjalla
I was thinking that would be a useful feature. Thanks for mentioning. It’s a great app.
Jul 20, 2008