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Once in while a project of such beauty and generosity shows up. Like the stunning Lobster font, Derek Weathersbee has lavished the utmost attention to the presentation of his typeface, Franchise Bold.
Jean-Luc is free downloadable font. It is an uppercase-only display grotesque in two styles: One with normal bold accents and punctuation, and one with hairline accents and punctuation, as seen in the title cards for “2 ou 3 choses”.
A very nice typography infographic charting the evolution of type styles created for WebDesignLedger by Finer Hosting. Visit the original post to see it full size.
Fontfabric are always pumping quality fonts and some of these are free. The latest free font is HERO and is a beautifully smooth, clean and rounded font.
If you are into designing type, creating the odd set of letters and words for logo designs and display pieces, this excellent article by Ian Moore should be bookmarked.
These Typographic Maps speak for themselves. Head over to Axis Maps to see the originals and buy the prints.
League Script #1 is a modern, coquettish script font available as open source from The League of Movatble Type.
DaltonMaag is one of my favourite font foundries, I have purchased a number of their fonts including Effra, Co Headline and Co Text. Appears I missed the initial Aller font press release about the Aller Standard font, available as a free download.
I have covered the issue of free fonts a number of times on my blog and on Twitter. The FontFeed tackle this subject head on.
Had an interesting question emailed to me by a designer by the name of Vaughan on font licensing. This is my take on it.
Gotham is one beautiful font, but it is used by many people. I have listed a few alternatives you might want to check out for your own logo designs.
FontSmith provides stunning fonts in a super lovely website experience. FontSmith is a leading London based type design studio founded in 1999 by Jason Smith.
Yet another free font from FontFabric, called Code. Comes in two weights, Light & Bold. Ideal for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.
So many modular and block fonts out there at the moment, but when I saw QUB, I was particularly struck by how cool it is. Even cooler that it’s a free download.
David Watson, a graphic designer from Trebleseven sent in his stunning typographic football World Cup poster for UNICEF.
A terrific Open Type project that was created by hand and utilises over 72 ligatures. The Lobster Font is a Bold Condensed Script full of all the necessary extra’s to make it a fully versatile font. Not to forget that you can download this font for free direct from The Lobster Font
