September 8, 2023
If I were to design a new magazine that needed to be both traditional with the hint of edge attitude, I would consider the Amberwood font family. It is a sans serif with a touch of quirk. Its key feature is the brush letter curves that at once gives it a carnival poster sensibility that feels as though it was designed to suggest carefully contoured ribbon.
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August 14, 2023
Perhaps the ideal way to appreciate Francis Chouquet’s 2023 typeface Scusi is to imagine the classic film posters painted and designed in the 60s and 70s by Italian film poser designer Sandro Symeoni, whose custom letter forms and typefaces adorned a bevy of imported Hollywood films destined to be translated or dubbed for Italian audiences as well as those originals made Cinecitta, the legendary film studio in Rome. Although there is a tangential relationship, Chouquet did a good job of building on them and inventing his own signature
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font of the month
July 6, 2023
Our July Font of the Month is Baudot from Delve Fonts: Somewhere, squirreled away in almost every pre-digital graphic designer’s flat files near to the old rubber cement remover and the hand-roller used for flattening out galleys, under the piles of Rubylith, a box of ruling tape and a T-square from the ancient paste-up days, is a small collection of dry transfer type sheets (also known as press type).
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June 6, 2023
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Beast of England’s new Acorn font family in this latest issue of Font of the Month.
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May 11, 2023
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Barnbrook Fonts’ bold and angular font family, Hopeless Diamond.
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April 11, 2023
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Derek Weathersbee’s retro-futuristic font, Ray Gun.
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March 6, 2023
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Cyla Costa’s bold brilliant and wonderful new color font family, Juma.
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February 2, 2023
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Anita Jürgeleit’s wonderful Horizona font family.
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January 4, 2023
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Lisa Fischbach’s wonderful new slab serif font family, Edie and Eddy Slab.
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font of the month
December 8, 2022
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Geetype’s magnificent, bold and curvaceous Geetype!
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