Ha. These typographic joke posters by Gary Nicholson are the dogs bollox. Fine puns delivered with devastatingly cool typographic style. My favourite is: “Get with the Times, New Roman” with “The Carnage was Grotesk, but Akzidenz Happen” coming a very close 2nd. » Source: Gary Nicholson

This is one seriously delightful font, designed by the prestigious Dalton Maag, for the Rio 2016 Olympics. What truely amazes me is how bloody hard it has to be has to be create a totally unique, yet stunningly beautiful, brush script style font, and Dalton Maag have utterly blitzed that challenge. I took one look… Read More →

Not sure anyone would need any form of icon font if they had the amazing Font Awesome 2.0 at their disposal. Gregory Loucas (@GregoryLPaul) has done an incredible job with this Font Awesome icon font set, and what’s more it is free to download. What an incredible selection of finely crafted icon fonts, and all at that… Read More →

Great launch offer on Kessel 205, designed by Talbort Type, over on MyFonts at the moment. Pick up this great geometric style font for only $59 which includes 5 weights: thin, light, book, bold and heavy. It’s not a million miles off from CodePro by FontFabric, but Kessel is wider and has that tilted lowercase… Read More →

Time to slip in some ultra classic typoporn in the naked and revealing form of the lowercase Gill Sans “g”. Gill Sans was designed by Eric Gill who was born in Brighton, 1882. As well as designing this longtime classic, Eric was a British sculptor, stone cutter and printmaker. Gill Sans was introduced in 1928,… Read More →

Heard great things about this TV series called “Louis”, by stand-up comedian: Louis C. K. over on FX Networks—also heard that Louis C.K. is now selling gig tickets direct to the public and thus cutting out the middle man. Way to go! So anyway: the talented Jon Contino (@joncontino) was responsible for the: Identity design,… Read More →

MyFonts consistently have amazing offers and this one for Madurai by Jeremy Dooley is no exception. You are getting 36 font styles for just $60 compared to the RRP of $300. There is a hint Co Text, by Dalton Maag, in some of the glyph shapes especially the e which I feel is quite unique… Read More →

TypeTogether has 7 lovely free fonts available for download. These fonts are typically part of a larger commercial type family allowing you to test each one.

I am that person that will often judge a book by it’s cover, and the same goes to fonts listed on MyFonts. I am far more likely to take notice if there are some aesthetically pleasing gallery images to sell the font. Case in point: Thirsty Script by Yellow Design Studio. I’m generally a sucker… Read More →

Bumped into swissted by Mike Joyce (Sterotype Design) a while back now, but recently stumbled upon it again. Far too cool to not share again. All the swissted posters Mike has redesigned are based on punk, hardcore, and indie rock shows that actually happened. Those original show flyers have been transformed into international typographic style posters typeset… Read More →

The Helvetica Bike By Borja Garcia Studio! I mean seriously. So the Helvetica Bike is of course a thing of utmost beauty, and I would not hesitate to sit my ass down on that lush white saddle. Love the Swiss cross over there on the front, and I think the bike would almost look lush… Read More →

Looking through my selection MyFonts Albums recently I was reminded of this lovely typeface family called Rubrik by Miles Newly. Since it debuted in July 2011 I have been regularly tempted to get my hands on it. My reluctance to purchase this font is down to the pricing structure which I can’t say I agree… Read More →

K Alternate Twitter Logo From The 1920′s This Alternate Twitter Logo From The 1920′s immediately caught my eye. The choice of font and colours matched with the Twitter brand name just makes this vintage Twitter logo sheet a rather beautiful specimen. The font in question is called Storefront which can be found on Sudtipos: designed by… Read More →

The Letters Typographic Poster by Skinny Ships & 55 Hi’s Oi Oi! The Letters Typographic Poster by Skinny Ships & 55 Hi’s is a stunning example of typographic postergraphy at it’s very bestest. Ready! Go! The Letters Poster contains many original letter forms as well as being wonderfully presented via the 2-colour screenprint process in gloriously shiny… Read More →

Helvetica Alternatives From Typecache.com Hey hey! Helvetica Alternatives From Typecache is a remarkably concise list of typefaces, or called Font Clusters, that could be used as an alternative to Helvetica. I have a number of the typefaces listed by Typecache in my own library, but there are quite a number here that are new to… Read More →

Type Hero #2: Fonts For Logos–Appetite By Denis Serebryakov Hey hey! Only posted my first Type Hero yesterday and then saw Appetite, designed by Denis Serebryakov, which simply had to be mentioned. Denis has also designed a much thinner version called Appetite Contrast. Just look at those sweet sweet letter forms, those ligatures, the multilingual… Read More →