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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Yo! New feature on imjustcreative: Type Hero—where I will, on occasion, highlight a font/typeface that catches my eye. I am always coming across typefaces and fonts that are just perfect for logo designing. To launch Type Hero off in style …

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RPM 45 – Free Condensed Font From Infamous Foundry RPM 45 is a spivvy—I’m also quite partial to that particular hue of blue they have used for the graphics—free condensed font from the Infamous Foundry. The uppercase set sets you …

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Hong Seon Jang—Type City By David B Smith Building A City With Cold Metal Type By David B Smith surely has to be one of THE most imaginative typographic and letterpress projects I have seen ever. Having the realistion that old …

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I was drawn to the work of Sasha Prood by way of DoobyBrain which initially showed some of the amazing watercolour typography work, but I then noticed on Sasha’s portfolio the intricate watercolour logo work. La Buena Foods (above) is …

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Valentina is a lovely antique Spanish didone designed by Pedro Arilla, Spain. What makes this typeface all the more special is that there is a lovely story behind Valentina—which you can read up on Pedro’s Valentina Behance page—as well as …

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If you want your agency website to stand out from the rest then I Shot The Serif, by tothepoint,  is one way to go about it. Some might say tothepoint are following in the foot-steps of the controversial of over gamification …

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You’ll need to be sharpish to listen to this as Ampers-Fan, a BBC Radio 4 Ampersand Documentary by Alistair Sooke, is of a highly time sensitive nature and will expire in 5 days from the date of this post. If …

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This video by Nadine Roßa is actually a wonderful look at how one lady finds the lowercase Sharp S (ß) one of the most delightful letters in the alphabet.

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There is little one can say to such stunning typographic logo design from the gifted hands of Simon Walker.

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This kinetic animation is based around a scene from the movie Kick-Ass. I [Ryan Perera] used a hand-drawn esthetic to capture both the intensity and emotional value in the scene.

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Have seen some great ampersands of later, but particularly fond of The Clampersand: Typographically Superior to the ‘C’ Clamp by LunchBreath.

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Swiss Typefaces is a groovy website with some ‘artistic’ photography used to present various typefaces. The great thing with Swiss Typefaces is that each typeface has a free downloadable trial version:

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K Original Article on Opentype I have a particular fondness for fonts that have larger x-heights than those that do not, which is such a sweeping generalization to make, that I couldn’t tell you specifically why other than in my …