Headline Heads Up — No. 6

One Tues­day every month, I’m going to round up a cou­ple (maybe a few) awe­some dis­play type­faces to show­case and give a lit­tle break­down on each one. If you have a sug­ges­tion you want me to take a look at, drop me a line. Let’s jump straight into some head­line goodness.

Codswallop

Foundry : Hanoded

Designer(s) : David Kerkhoff

Cost: $20 per style

First on this mon­th’s eye catch­ing menagerie is Codswallop. And it’s not just because of the name. Something about the rough edges of hand drawn — or made to look hand drawn — type just pulls me in. The font has its lim­i­ta­tions as the upper­case and low­er­case let­ters are iden­ti­cal, but it does have accent­ed char­ac­ters, basic fl and fi lig­a­tures, and numer­als built for frac­tions. I love the weight and heavy hand­ed­ness of it. The rea­son I’m men­tion­ing Codswallop though is because it has a family.

• Regular
• Italic
• Condensed
• Condensed Italic
• Extra Condensed
• Extra Condensed Italic

That leaves room for play­ing crazy like the exam­ple below. Also, check out that freak­ing awe­some @ sym­bol. Try it out your­self over on MyFonts.

I thought about show­ing off Florentin 2D. But now that I came back and looked at it some more, I’m a lit­tle iffy. It’s got an inter­est­ing idea going on with the extra chop­py gravure style. Maybe it’ll grow on me and I’ll come back to it again. Take a look at it and tell me what you think in the comments.

The final men­tion for this week’s Headline Heads Up goes out FontDeals.com — a new project start­ed by Jay Hilgert of Bittbox.com and Brush Pilot™. It’s an absolute­ly crazy deal on a whole hand­ful of fonts. $49 for 29 font files. And these are some awe­some look­ing and well craft­ed fonts. I’ve pur­chased my set and am still wad­ing through the pos­si­bil­i­ties for the range of appli­ca­tions. It’s just too good a deal to pass up. Go check it out! Remember, there’s 24 more fonts includ­ed in the pack than what I’m show­ing below! It’s crazy.