the week in Type: good type

Nov 28 2008 [comment]

Thanksgiving Type

I hope that my American readers had (or are having) a wonderful Thanksgiving. The winner of the Ugmonk t-shirt give-away is at the end of this post, in addition to a special offer for iLT readers. Lots of type goodness today, so let’s get started with …

some lovely letterpress, and a pretty web site. Wilkintie:

Birthday cakes with a typographic twist, from Suck UK:

Via deathbykerning.

Art of Music from Museum Studio:

Thanks, Blake.

A great screen-printed calendar. Unfortunately it’s sold out. However, perhaps if they receive enough requests, they’ll consider another print run:

Thanks for the heads up from inspirationbit on twitter.

Posters from Jean Widmer, via Aisle One:

Kyle Bean:

Thanks, Lauren.

Another fantastic illustration from Kevin Cornell for A List Apart:

The End, a collection of film end titles:

Some humour from Hamish:

Also available in 1920 × 1200 and 1024 × 640 for your desktop.

From TypeSites, a review of the beautiful Good:

Some great type and lettering photos from Depression Press:

Nice work from Studio Punkat:

But sadly one of the most annoyingly frustrating web sites you are ever likely to visit. Fortunately, there’s a Studio Punkat Flickr page.

A great little (out of copyright) book found on archive.org:

You can literally flip through the book on issuu.

Nice cover from Danny Goldberg:

Again, nice work, but when will designers start creating accessible sites‽ Sorry, Danny.

New fonts

New styles of Whitman & Whitman Display:

Several new types from Sudtipos:
First is Angelus

Lynda

and Paz:

A good collection (aggregation) of type-related RSS feeds from Alltop:

An interesting experimental type from Manolo Guerrero. Optica normal:

Manolo’s site is written in Spanish, but here’s a link to an English version (via Google translate)

Ugmonk t-shirt winner

Thanks to all who took part. I will pass on your recommendations to Jeff at Ugmonk. So, the winner is Alain Boisvert who wrote that he’d like to see an ë emblazoned across an Ugmonk t-shirt. Alain, I’ll pass on your mail address to Jeff, so you should be hearing something soon.

And here’s one of the latest offerings from Ugmonk:

For iLT readers there’s a special deal: 12% discount for any Ugmonk t-shirt; just enter the code ILTGIVE at checkout. This code is good from Wednesday, November 26 through Wednesday, December 10. Happy shopping.

I’m hoping that I can spend more time on iLT in December. I have many articles to finish writing, including Part 5 of the Type History series, The coming of the sans; the lengthy Why type matters; and a list of 100 of my favourite typefaces; and lots, lots more.

And finally …

I wonder whether anyone can name the typeface used for this article’s masthead? Vague hint: it hasn’t been released yet.

Those posters from Joseph Mueller (including casanova) will arrive any day now, so I’ll be giving some of those away to previous commeters. I had something of a Spring Clean (in November), and found a number of posters that I just don’t have the wall space for. I’d love to hang on to them, but I’d rather they grace your walls, than sit in their tubes indefinitely. The first one I’m — reluctantly — giving away is Coudal’s Field Notes screen-printed poster (18″ × 24″):

Who wants it? Quick, before I change my mind :)

Hope you enjoyed this week’s the week in Type. Have a fantastic weekend!

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Bob Marchman
Wow, I have the privilege of being the first to commend your (proper) usage of the interrobang in the Danny Goldberg section.
I think I’ll go remap my caps lock to that right now. Actually, it would only end up replacing my blatant overuse of ellipses on twitter.
Thanks always for my type fix. I’m gonna start calling you the Mother Superior of Typography. (actually not)
Nov 28, 2008
johno
Bob
Well spotted. Kind of a pity that Georgia doesn’t have an interrobang. Remappping unused keys is always a great idea. I should have a little article on that — creating a typographic keyboard. Thanks, Bob.
Nov 28, 2008
jegHegy
Me me me! My walls are blindingly white.
Nov 28, 2008
datha
Well, I wanted to write a similar comment as jegHegy. But now that I see it, it looks a bit needy…
What the hell:
Me me me!
;-)
Nov 28, 2008
Guy Leech
I’ll put up my hand for the poster - I’m on a mission to cover my bedroom walls entirely with interesting posters, postcards, and anything else, so it’d fit right in. I’m also only about 35% done, so I always need more things to stick on it.
It’s actually quite interesting to see how all the posters interact with each other - they’re all right next to each other or overlapping, which tend to create some fun visual contrasts.
And I assume the ‘interrobang’ is the question-mark cum exclamation mark?
Nov 28, 2008
M72
That poster is cute. I believe it would make a wonderful christmas gift for m bro. I simply think that beautiful things should be shared rather then kept for yourself.
Nov 28, 2008
logotasarimcim
nice work… good tipografi art
It’s actually quite interesting to see how all the posters interact with each other..
Nov 28, 2008
Russell
Calluna?
Nov 28, 2008
johno
Russell
Bingo! I’m impressed! It is indeed Calluna from Jos Buivenga.
Nov 28, 2008
Jos Buivenga (exljbris)
Russel, that’s amazing! I’m impressed too!
Thanks for having me in the masthead, Johno.
Nov 28, 2008
Elí
Optica is very interesting, it´s like hidden but clear enough to be read.
I’d like to have one of those posters.
Nov 28, 2008
Russell
Thanks, looking forward to that one. Nice work.
I apologize for the broken link, I didn’t have enough pennies to renew my domain, but it should be working soon.
Nov 28, 2008
Doctor
Johno, you got me all excited, using Calluna in the masthead. I thought I would scroll down the page and see an announcement of its release. Needless to say, I was disappointed.
Nov 28, 2008
TypoJunkie
Really nice Poster Johno! I’m having the same trouble as you (posters piling up in their tubes), but I’m afraid my walls are barren. I don’t have enough money to frame them all. I promise to start soon though!
Oh, and I think you spelled “Sudtipos” wrong. Feel free to edit my post and fix the spelling before Ale or one of his posse show up.
Cheers!
Nov 28, 2008
Quinn
I completely LOVE this site & my ilovetypography widget! Thank you for the continued inspiration. Just whipped up some typography for my store this morning. You can check it out here . I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY!!!
Nov 28, 2008
Missu
Lynda is a pretty font. For some reason it reminds me of a new, very clean city with tall skyscrappers. Weird, yes I am :-)
Nov 28, 2008
Justin
I would love that poster. I have someone in mind who it would make a perfect gift for.
Optica Normal: Holy cow. That hurts, but I like it!
Art of Music…very nice, even to a tone-deaf fellow like me.

Nov 28, 2008
Alain
Hurray ! Hurray !
Quite happy to have won the t-Shirt.
I have now broken my 17 year long drought of never winning anything !
I really enjoy your site.
Thank you.
Nov 28, 2008
Katy
I love the No Longer Friends wallpaper!!
Nov 28, 2008
Barbara Abbes
i want that posterrrr!
Nov 28, 2008
Preston Lee
Loved the Musical notes and the cardboard typography. Thanks for the great roundup.
Nov 29, 2008
bjzaba
Great post as usual - made my day that much better…. :D
And that poster at the end looks mighty fine!
Nov 29, 2008
ManoloG
Thanks i love typography
Nov 29, 2008
emily
I’m quite fond of the rather adorable poster, but I’m certain that whoever ends up with it will also be quite fond.
I’d like to point out a small typo - there is a “Fortunatley,” almost right before the Studio Punkat Flickr link.
Cheerio!
Nov 29, 2008
Hugo Roussel (studio punkat)
i’m sorry about my web site.
:-)
Nov 29, 2008
Robert
Darn! Russell beat me to the punch with the masthead, oh wells. Really good post John. I was checking out the GOOD website recently too. I did a post on my blog about their “GOOD sheets” found in local Starbucks. Some really good stuff in there. I really need to get my hands on those Ugmonk shirts.

Nov 29, 2008
Hamish M
Great roundup again, John! Thank you especially for featuring my Helvetica/Arial image, it came in a burst of random inspiration the other day, and I couldn’t pass it up, haha!
Looking forward to all the fantastic posts coming up. Cheers!

Nov 29, 2008
Ben
Wow. That poster is gorgeous. I can’t imagine giving it up, but glad you are!
Nov 30, 2008
johno
Have noted the names of those whose lives would be a meaningless void of nothingness without the poster :) I will add that this poster is not one to be tacked to the wall with drawing pins. It’s a beautiful, limited edition screen print, and deserving of a frame.
emily
Thanks. Fixed now.
Nov 30, 2008
Oliver
I would love to have that poster.
My walls are screaming for some beautiful poster to break up that vast expanse of white. :(
Dec 1, 2008
reK1NDLE
Horray for exljbris!
Anyway, I’ll put in my vote for the poster!
Dec 1, 2008
eduardo
Always good pictures and typefaces. Ty
Dec 2, 2008
benedicte
oh, i love the depression press sample; reminds me of how my upper secondary school teachers in fine art professed that you should never use more than three typefaces on one page, yet in pre-1950s newspapers, advertisements etc. you always find a multitude of serif, sans-serif and even more elaborate fonts.
Dec 2, 2008
Chloe
That poster and I were meant to be.
Also, I want to say that I love this website. Tasty new typography morsels every week to brighten my day-in-and-day-out student routine!
Dec 2, 2008
Gina
*raises hand for poster*
Dec 2, 2008
johno
Looks as though many of you want the Field Notes poster. Perhaps, to be fair, I’ll choose someone at random; and will announce in the next post. Thanks for all your comments.
Dec 3, 2008
Niels Oeltjen
Was very surprised to find our project on ILT today.
Thanks for linking up Wilkintie, we are very proud of this project and put a lot of love into the website. It’s nice to have it be appreciated.
Dec 3, 2008
__k
I love the Lynda and Paz fonts by Ariel.
found it @
http://www.negronouveau.com
Dec 4, 2008
sfer
Am I still on time to be eligible for that great poster? I don’t know what I like best, the typography or the reading part…
Dec 16, 2008