Headline Heads Up — No. 20

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.

Trend Hand Made

Foundry : Latinotype
Designer(s) : Daniel Hernández, Paula Nazal Selaive
Cost: $5 — $20

Trend Hand Made Slab by Latinotype - Alphabet Preview, rough hipster font, hatched dropshadow, slab and sans-serif typeface

Layers. Rough edges. Sans. Slab. Inline. Ornaments. This type­face super group has tons of styles to help build typo­graph­ic mas­ter­pieces. It absolute­ly cap­tures the hand­made, hip­ster vibe that is pop­u­lar and trend­ing now. In addi­tion to the hatched drop shad­ow layer shown above, there is also a solid drop shad­ow. You real­ly just need to go check out all the com­po­nents to see the crazy amount of pos­si­bil­i­ties you can build with these fonts.

 

Basingstoke

Foundry : Decade Typefoundry
Designer(s) : Gilang Purnama Jaya
Cost: $45

Basingstoke Typeface by Gilang Purnama Jaya - Alphabet Example, Blackletter, classic masthead

In the mid­dle this month, is a cre­ative black­let­ter with dec­o­ra­tive details. Basingstoke is inspired by 19th cen­tu­ry news­pa­per mast­heads but would work equal­ly well as the logo for a death metal screamo band. The upper­case let­ters would also make great bases for build­ing drop cap­i­tal illustrations.

 

Delgado

Foundry : Gaslight
Designer(s) : Roman Shchyukin
Cost: $45

Delgado Typeface by Gaslight Font Foundry - Alphabet Example, thin elegant, ball serifs

Last on this mon­th’s list is Delgado by Gaslight. This tall, thin serif has del­i­cate drop ter­mi­nals. All togeth­er that cre­ates a light, airy, ele­gant look. The tow­er­ing pro­por­tions give it a con­tem­po­rary approach to the tra­di­tion­al form. You could set a small length of body copy with Delgado but the long term read­abil­i­ty isn’t there because of the pro­por­tions. It real­ly shines in a head­line or title role.

 

Final Men­tions & Inspiration

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