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Always love finding original vintage signage out and about. Finding those faded Victorian signs on the side of buildings is quite a treat. It’s such a throwback to a time when everything was carefully painted, on a huge scale, in the absence of plastic and vinyl.
Typetweets displays the last 100 tweets from Twitter that mentioned a typographic related term for your viewing pleasure. These tweets range from humorous, to useless, to providing hours of fun with links to other sites. It’s really up to the community at large to determine the quality of its contents at any given time, but that’s what keeps things fresh.
If you follow my daily bookmark and link updates on my Posterous blog, then you will probably have seen a number of links sourced from Aqua-Velvet. It is one of a few creative blogs that I genuinely look forward to seeing the frequent updates. I am always intrigued to see what is up next and rarely leave without stealing some article to link to on my Posterous blog.
A while back I knocked up a Helvetica poster called 100% Helvetica, 0% Arial – Typography Poster. A semi educational poster on the importance of using Helvetica. This is in preference to the socially destructive Arial. For laughs I then created this Comic Sans version. There is a nice documentary style video circulating on the use of Comic Sans.
Commercial Type is a joint venture between Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz, and the present a brand spanking new font foundry. This is the team behind the redesign of The Guardian newspaper identity. So a pretty mad collection of quality typefaces can be found here.
The Museo family of fonts from font foundry, Exljbris, have earned a well used place in my font collection, purchasing the entire Museo and Museo Sans family was a no-brainer. Seeing Museo Slab come along is just the icing on the cake. As with the other Museo fonts, Jos kindly makes the 500 and 500 italic style available as a free download.
Orbitron is another open source font from The League of Movable Type, one of my favourite font web sites for quality fonts. It is available for download below.
232 MKSD Round was designed by Masayuki Sato from Maniackers Design. It comes in the 3 above weights, Light, Medium and bold and you can download it as a Mac Truetype, Mac Postscript and Windows Truetype font file. You can download it for free via the visiting the link below.
Do you design fonts? Do you create usable and quality fonts like the ones listed above? Do you include reasonable glyphs like standard punctuation, Cyrillic characters, bold, italic? Do you care about the sanity of the end user with details like kerning? If so, and you are looking for more platforms to promote your work, rather than just have it setting in your portfolio, then give me a shout.
Office FontFonts come in a new easy-to-use format optimized for everyday use in Microsoft® Office® apps. Try the style-linked (regular and italic in one menu item) FF Celeste Sans Offc for free!
Frazzled on the heels of the Typodarium 2010 Typographic Calendar and subsequent Typodarium giveaway, this rather beautiful SketchBook and 2010 Pocket Calendar from Typotheque hit my retinas at full speed earlier this evening. With an apparent limited run of 500 copies, I have ordered several to be given as Christmas giveaways in forthcoming weeks.
So as reported in a previous post ‘Typodarium 2010 Typographic Calendar’, I now have two of these to giveaway, well in time for the New Year. Oh, I am so considerate and thoughtful.
Expanded Font came into view via a link on Behance. It’s a chunky, phat and modular font. You could previously request a copy of Expanded direct from Aurelio’s website. So after linking to it on my Posterous, I approached Aurelio to see if we could make Expanded available as a direct free download from IJC.
Found Aeroportal, a rather tasty free font, via TypeGoodness. I have not seen this font before, yet it has been around for a few years. I have seen commercial variations of it, but when I realised it was also a free download with 3 weights, then this became even cooler. It’s ideal for logo designs, titles and certain size body text.
Continuing my series of Helvetica based TV and Movie posters (Silence of the Lambs and Stargate Atlantis), I proudly bring you House M.D. once of my most watched TV shows. Love the character, love the acting, the humour, the banter and the various personality conflicts.
There are a number of well known inspiration and submission sites like FFFFound, ImgFav, Dropular, I Heart This, ImageSpark, Vi.sualise.us, YayEveryday, PicoCool. Most of these are pretty mainstream, but I have encountered some other cool sites worthy of a bookmark or two. A few border on being portfolio sites as well, but all are great places to expand your thirst for visual inspiration.
