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Always, and I mean always, on the look out for new sources of inspiration, I occasional stumble cross a site that has a healthy helping of logo designs, typography, art and pretty much everything else. Share Some Candy is one of those sites.
iKern is the result of years of research on autospacing and autokerning and it can produce high quality spacing and kerning in short time. It’s proposed to you as an help to optimize your workflow moving your resources towards the “creative” side.
Congratulations to Becky Bryant @Caria for being randomly picked as the winner for the TDR giveaway. I really sincerely appreciate all those that took part, and followed me regardless of the outcome.
A ‘revival’ of Goudy Oldstyle and Italic font, with features among which are small capitals (in the roman only), oldstyle and lining figures, superscripts and subscripts, fractions, ligatures, class-based kerning, case-sensitive forms, capital spacing. There is support for many languages that use latin script.
One of those design ideas that I really wish I had thought of. Not exactly jaw breaking typographic design, but the cute idea of A typography ass holes is pretty neat. Can you tell which A-ss hole is what?
Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type.
M+ Outline TypeFace from MPlus Fonts, is an astonishing free typographic collection of 42 weights and styles of sans-serif gorgeousness. Thanks to 1stWebDesigner for the initial heads-up for this font.
Dagny Font is a free individual weight from the FF Dagny OT type family. This is Dagny OT Thin and is just a beautiful Grotesk font. Rival to Helvetica Neue Ultra Light in style and feeling. If you like your typography looking slender, look no further. You can download it for Free via FontFont using the link below.
If you have font love for Helvetica, and find yourself creating typographic designs using Helvetica, then feel free to submit them to the LoveHelvetica Flickr Pool.
FILE font is a cool free font applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like logos, pictograms. You can download it via the link below.
Jordan, over at the UnionRoom blog, put together this really cool typography post, “The Webs Best Designers And Their Favourite Fonts”. Here, he asked 12 designers to briefly talk about their favourite font. No great surprise I picked Helvetica, but I do give a few reasons why I like it so.
Although Miso is not a new font on the scene, it has recently become a firm favorite of mine. Although I added it to www.font72.com a while back, felt it was worth adding to my free and open source font library here on IJC as well.
As the ‘Typographic Desk Reference’ giveaway was so damn popular, I thought what else might cause such eager interest. So this giveaway pulls no punches, ‘FontBook’, or affectionately known in privileged circles as the ‘The Big Yellow Book’ by Fontshop, could be sitting on your desk in several weeks time.
Three new font styles added to the ImJustCreative free and opensource font library. This time a triple helping from Gustav Jerlardtz. I originally saw his new font, Teodoria, on his Behance profile several months back. I emailed him asking if would consider making it available for a free download, and here we are.
Time for something different to giveaway. No Helvetica Moleskines, or Type Trumps, instead, this most essential resource book for type fiends everywhere. Yes, you too can have a copy of the ‘Typographic Desk Reference’ book sitting on your bed stand, as you lovingly caress it’s textured hard surface, and you marvel at the sheer majesty of this epic publication.
IlliadSans Font made by Fábio Duart Martins – www.loligovulgaris.com. IlliadSans Font is far from complete, but does have a full compliment of lowercase characters in all 3 weights: Extra Light, Book and Black. Available as a Beta font for download here on ImJustCreative.