Headline Heads Up — No. 18

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.

Thirsty Rough

Foundry : Yellow Design Studio
Designer(s) : Ryan Martinson
Cost: $9 (introductory offer)

Thirsty Rough by Yellow Design Studio - Alphabet Example, Distressed Wood Type Script

First up this month is anoth­er great release by Yellow Design Studio called Thirsty Rough. It is a pick your poi­son of dis­tressed fun. With four weights and four lev­els of increas­ing weath­er­ing for each weight you get six­teen fonts to play with. Then there is an off­set shad­ow ver­sion for each weight, plus a fun set of tex­tures to round out the font count at 21. The block print­ed feel rein­forces the vin­tage qual­i­ty of the script mak­ing it per­fect for retro appli­ca­tions in pack­ag­ing and poster design. (If dis­tressed type isn’t your thing, there’s also Thirsty Script to check out.)

 

Salamander

Foundry : Fenotype
Designer(s) : Emil Karl Bertell
Cost: $24.50 (introductory offer)

Salamander Typeface by Fenotype - Alphabet Example, Contrast Script

Salamander is a fun, boun­cy script from Emil Bertell released through his Fenotype foundry. With close to 570 glyphs there are three and four vari­a­tions for upper­case and low­er­case let­ters with mul­ti­ple degrees of swash. Also avail­able is an orna­ment set with even more curls, loops, and swoop­ing curves. Really you should go check out all Emil’s scripts like Mishka and Mercury Script because they are all full of per­son­al­i­ty and would look great in all kinds of dis­play settings.

 

Blyth

Foundry : Nick Slater
Designer(s) : Nick Slater
Cost: FREE

Blyth Typeface by Nick Slater - Alphabet Example, Geometric Art Deco

Blyth is a work in progress. Currently avail­able as an Illustrator file of the out­lines, Blyth shows tremen­dous promise as a dis­play face. A fun mix of geom­e­try with stripes makes the ver­sion shown above an Art Deco treat. It is also avail­able filled-in and out­line only. Blyth is def­i­nite­ly a font to watch.

 

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