Archive for the type tuesday category
Before & After went hunting for a neat Christmas-y typeface. They found Aeronaut. Aeronaut does something pretty cool: it includes two faces (Balloon + Parachute) that are visual embellishments purposed to overlay their base typeface and add visual interest to it. Before & After explains the “squiggles”:
Aeronaut is based on a writing style known as textualis, the most calligraphic form of blackletter. Its unusual adornments — pigtails, squiggles, “balloons” and “parachutes” — give it a light, candy-factory look, beautifully 19th-century, without the Gothic heaviness of classic blackletter type.
As Before & After points out: the fact that Aeronaut includes the squiggles as a separate typeface means its incredible easy to set up the type and the squiggles in two different color. Go nuts, typenerds.
Type…Thursday? Yep. I didn’t find anything of worth on Tuesday, so this week’s type post got moved to today. Fear not, the wait was well worth it. Today we have a post from Brian Hoff (who I featured back in April with his look at 10 Type Shirts) dealing with 10 Common Typography Mistakes. It quickly and succinctly lays out mistakes that “can make a large impact in the effectiveness and appearance of your designs, in addition to saving you time and money when dealing with printers.” It’s a great quick refresher that every single person in the world should read (just imagine…). And, as always, extra points for mention of a grid system (#…11?).
I love it when I stumble across multiple goodies for my Type Tuesday posts because it allows me to have a good excuse for posting a type-only post. LET US BEGIN:
Union Room has a selection of 10 Free Calligraphic Fonts to download. Some of them are hideous, but some might be worth tucking away in your font folder.
SpeckyBoy posted a collection of 20+ Free Stylish Typography Themes for WordPress which just goes to show that you don’t need a flash and image-saturated site to look amazing.
And finally, Web Design Ledger has posted a collection of a surprisingly solid 28 Free High Quality Fonts. Also, there are links at the bottom to other collections they’ve assembled of san serif, serif, grunge, and hand drawn fonts.
Smashing Mag has a great round-up of blogs to inspire your inner typographer. Everything from type blogs, to digital foundries.
There’s even a Microsoft site dedicated typography. Not going to help them come back from this shame bath though. Also, why on earth does YouTube ask me to log in so I can watch the official version of that? Ugh.
