Headline Heads Up — No. 10

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.

GRN Burgy

Foundry : Marco Goran Romano

Designer(s) : Marco Goran Romano

Cost: FREE

First up this month is the bub­bly GRN Burgy. It screams 70s retro at the top of its disco lungs. With built-in reflec­tion high­lights and elon­gat­ed pro­por­tions, the let­ter­forms cre­ate unique and inter­est­ing neg­a­tive spaces. GRN Burgy is great inspi­ra­tion for any food relat­ed project — espe­cial­ly any­thing to do with fast food cul­ture. See more great exam­ples and down­load the font on Behance.

 

Cabin Sketch

Foundry : Impallari

Designer(s) : Pablo Impallari

Cost: FREE

I love sketch type­faces. I love see­ing the human touch of the hand on screen. Cabin Sketch is a hand drawn ver­sion of Impallari’s Cabin — a human­ist sans-serif inspired by the type­faces of Johnston and Gill. This gives the let­ters a very solid base before the slight bumps and jit­ters are added. It also has the great fea­tures of com­ing in both a reg­u­lar and bold weight along with being host­ed on Google Web Fonts. It looks great large, but again because of the solid forms it is based on can also be used small­er too.

 

Old Press

Foundry : Galdino Otten

Designer(s) : Galdino Otten

Cost: FREE (for personal use)

Distressed type­faces are anoth­er area where vari­a­tion and the intri­cate inter­play of pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive spaces come togeth­er to cre­ate some­thing inter­est­ing and unique. In other words, dis­tressed is awe­some. With some unique pro­por­tions — for exam­ple, the height of the cross­bar on the “A” ver­sus the bowl and leg of the “R” — Old Press has a human look and per­son­al­i­ty more so than a cold­er, Swiss sans-serif. The rough edges and dis­tressed spots rein­force that feel­ing of the let­ters being hand touched. And though Old Press does not have any extra glyphs to cre­ate vari­a­tions in the amount of patch­i­ness, that should­n’t be a prob­lem when set­ting short head­lines. If you’re inter­est­ed in get­ting your feet wet with the wood­block look, get a copy of Old Press to try out some ideas.

 

Estelar

Foundry : Emilio Correa

Designer(s) : Emilio Correa

Cost: FREE

Last on this mon­th’s list is an exper­i­men­tal font by the name of Estelar. A cre­ation of straight lines and 90° turns, the type is more shapes than let­ters. Inspired by Pre-Columbian art and archi­tec­ture, the shapes def­i­nite­ly cap­ture the look of dec­o­ra­tive bor­der treat­ments seen in these pieces. As exper­i­men­tal as it is, read­abil­i­ty is non-existent and leg­i­bil­i­ty is tough for some char­ac­ters. If you have the right word though and are look­ing for a splash of South American styling, Estelar might be per­fect. Otherwise, it would be a use­ful tool for cre­at­ing sim­ple pat­terns for use in bor­ders or back­grounds as illus­trat­ed below.