Fontcraft: Scriptorium Fonts, Art and Design Iphegenia was one of our early designs, a creative advertising script font with a modern, hand-drawn look but regular character forms and a nice even line to it. It has high readability despite its decorative look and works well in combination with a variety of other fonts. The demo version of Iphegenia with a limited character set can be downloaded for free. If you like it, you can download the full version from our ONLINE STORE for just $24. Beautiful Type - Links We could say that 2010 was a great year for typography on the web... With the arrival of new tool and services, web designers are not limited to websafe fonts and that's great. You could find lots of websites which treat about typographic subject but few could be taken as reference. Here is a list of great typo-related websites, blogs or articles. AisleOne If you like great layout, grid systems, modernism, rare design books you could check Antonio Carusone website Erik Spiekermann blog Eric Spiekermann, one of the most influential contemporary type designer share his thoughts on his blog FontLeech An index of the best free font sites on the web. For the love of type This is the kind of place to find inspiration iABC a simple blog where you could discover beautiful types throught beautiful letters IDSGN A really interesting blog with cool monthly reviews and a great "know your type" section...
The Art Of Hand Lettering Hand lettering has taken the world by storm. It has become the beautiful connection — a juxtaposition — between design and words. The letter forms in the typography have been broken down into their shapes, flourishes, and textures. Hand lettering speaks volumes. This is an art form which allows us to see the space between the letters, and the style of the lettering as a piece of art that can deeply evoke emotions and bring meaning — nostalgia, happiness, joy, and love. I’ve selected some of the hand lettering artists whose work continues to speak strongly and boldly of this beautiful way of creating art.
House Signs font list - choose the font for your house sign It's our 11th year selling House Signs online direct from this website Folk : Marcelo Magalhães Collection of illustrations for personal projects.Drawing, Illustration, Painting2013 Cover art for a Boogie Woogie Trio from Switzerlad.Graphic Design, Illustration, Packaging2013 This typeface is a ongoing project developed on the summer program of typeface design at The Cooper Union, NY.Typography2012 Visual identity and portfolio presentation for a photographer.Branding, Packaging, Print Design2012 Series of letterings/logos created for the sections of the website showlivre.comArt Direction, Graphic Design, Typography2013 Collection of Logos.Branding, Design, Graphic Design2012 Typeface design.Graphic Design, Typography, Branding2011 Some Advertisings for Rádio Eldorado.Advertising, Creative Direction2012 I was invited by my friends at Seis e Um Audiovisual to create the visual identity to theirs new weblog Audiovizuando, almost everything about gadgets, cams with a lot of humor.
Okay Type · Harriet Series Harriet Series is a rational serif typeface — inspired by design popular in the mid-20th-century, Harriet draws from both transitional faces, such as Baskerville, and modern faces, like Century. At the same time it is unburdened by these historic models, adopting contemporary features and finish. Harriet includes a set of Display styles with enough exuberance to sparkle at large sizes as well as a set of diligent and sturdy Text styles suitable for body copy. Fonts “The shapes of letter do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.” ^ Eric Gill The purpose of this post... read more
WhatFont Tool - The easiest way to inspect fonts in webpages « Chengyin Liu ← Back to Chengyin's main page What is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage? Firebug or Webkit Inspector? No, that's too complicated. It should be just a click away. Hence I wrote WhatFont, with which you can easily get font information about the text you are hovering on.
Understanding The Difference Between Type And Lettering Advertisement Coming out of the grunge, graffiti and David Carson era through the ’90s, there has been a major resurgence of interest in typography. We have seen a number of designers and artists make their careers out of designing type or custom lettering, and it has become common to list typography among our skills and disciplines. Unfortunately, as with any popularity surge, there have come with it a lot of misunderstandings of some of the terms and concepts that we use.