Headline Heads Up — No. 18

January 22, 2013 at 9:53 pm

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.) Continue read­ing →

A Spare Update — No. 4

December 18, 2012 at 10:23 pm

I start­ed writ­ing this for last mon­th’s Headline Heads Up and did­n’t fin­ish, but here it is now. Feeling bad, I decid­ed to throw in an early Christmas present for those that cel­e­brate. (I recent­ly sort­ed out my RSS and got it loaded into Google Reader so now time just gets away from me as I con­tin­u­al­ly have inspir­ing things to look at and resources to read and eval­u­ate. I guess it’s time to work on some cura­to­r­i­al dis­cre­tion and time man­age­ment.) But here’s to get­ting back on track with a wrap up of awe­some fonts and fun links to check out.

 

Desk

Foundry : UPPERTYPE
Designer(s) : Pedro Lobo
Cost: €10

Desk Typeface by UPPERTYPE - Alphabet Example, Narrow Shadowed

Desk by UPPERTYPE makes the list this month because it’s a bold state­ment. It does­n’t try to be a lot of things; Desk is built for dis­play pur­pos­es — end of dis­cus­sion. It has upper­case, numer­als, and punc­tu­a­tion. There isn’t a filled in vari­ant, just the shad­owed ver­sion shown.  The nar­row­ness leans slight­ly art deco but the curves and shad­ow update it a bit. Somehow I read both high fash­ion cat­a­log and emo band nos­tal­gia album cover.

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Headline Heads Up — No. 15

July 10, 2012 at 7:55 am

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.

47

Foundry : Moinzek
Designer(s) : Hendrick Rolandez
Cost: FREE

47 Typeface by Hendrick Rolandez - Art Deco Font, Stylish Sans Serif

First up is an Art Deco treat. Named 47, I like it for the num­bers. They would look great cast in metal and hang­ing on a house for the street address. I could also see using the glyphs as the base for a logo and build­ing on their shapes. It’s all upper­case and num­bers at the moment, but there is also an ital­ic that adds a lit­tle for­ward move­ment. It would look good on the side of a car for a name­plate or some­thing. Get 47 on Dribbble, and check out some exam­ples on Behance.

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Headline Heads Up — No. 13

March 14, 2012 at 9:12 pm

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.

Birra Stout

Foundry : Darden Studio
Designer(s) : Darden Studio
Cost: FREE

Birra Stout Typeface by Darden Studio - Alphabet Example

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A Spare Update — No. 3

December 15, 2011 at 11:07 pm

With the way the hol­i­days are soak­ing up all my time, I’m going to wrap up this month’s Wall­pa­per Wednes­day and Head­line Heads-Up into one big update post. But first, here’s some other cool things to go check out.

Portfolio Site for Sean Wes
Some great let­ter­ing and all around good type & design.

Print Free Graph Paper
Need a A4 sheet of 1/4″ iso­met­ric graph paper? Print one here along with nor­mal boxed graph paper and other formats.

Portfolio Site for Anthony James Paglia
All around fun design and some nice type projects. (Plus I love the color.)

Icon Fonts are Awesome
A cool CSS trick with icon fonts.

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Headline Heads Up — No. 7

July 19, 2011 at 8:05 am

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.

Vintage Vectors Ornamental Letters

Foundry : Unknown
Designer(s) : Unknown
Cost: FREE

Ornamental Letters on Vintage Vectors

First on the list this month is not a font at all but an .EPS of over-the-top orna­men­tal let­ters. They are full of tex­ture and old world looks. They would work great as a drop-cap or blown up real big as a back­ground ele­ment. There’s a ton of other great vec­tors of vin­tage engrav­ings over on VintageVectors.com so go check them out.

 

Sugar Pie

Foundry : Sudtipos
Designer(s) : Alejandro Paul
Cost: $79

Sugar Pie by Sudtipos

Next is the lat­est release from Sudtipos. I seri­ous­ly can­not get enough from these guys. Sugar Pie is an amaz­ing brush script with swoop­ing curves that cul­mi­nate in sharp point­ed ter­mi­nals. Nicely weight­ed strokes and plen­ty of per­son­al­i­ty let this type real­ly hold a space which makes it per­fect for pack­ag­ing or point of pur­chase sig­nage — espe­cial­ly in food relat­ed appli­ca­tions. And of course being from Sudtipos, there are plen­ty of extra alter­nate char­ac­ters and lig­a­tures to keep things inter­est­ing and help vary your words. So open up that glyph palette and dig into Sugar Pie.

Sugar Pie Typeface - Brush Script Type used to set "Amazing Apples"

 

Marlowe

Foundry : FaceType
Designer(s) : Marcus Sterz
Cost: $80 for a family of 4 styles

Marlowe Regular Alphabet by FaceType

I’ve been hold­ing on to this a few weeks after see­ing it in a Typedia post. Marlowe is a fam­i­ly of four styles; the basis is an Art Deco sans serif. Then comes the vari­ants — Cocktail, Swirl, and Escapade. They build on the reg­u­lar in dif­fer­ent ways, and its real­ly hard to explain all of them. So take a look at the sam­ple below to get a bet­ter idea. There’s also some OpenType lig­a­tures and alter­nates through out the styles, so check those out too. Pick up copies on FaceType’s web­site or over on Fontspring with @font-face web licensing.

Marlowe Showcase of 4 Styles - Regular, Cocktail, Swirl, Escapade

Marlowe Ligatures Showing Unique Letter Combinations

 

Quintet

Foundry : ShoType Design
Designer(s) : Kunihiko Okano
Cost: Unknown

Quintet Script Typeface - Formal Script Fonts Built for Layering

Last on the list this month is more an inspi­ra­tion piece. For now, it’s still stu­dent work and not for sale any­where. Part of the TypeMedia 2011 class, Kunihiko Okana has put togeth­er some­thing truly amaz­ing — a for­mal script with five vari­a­tions built for lay­er­ing and off­set­ting to build ele­gant head­lines and dis­play pieces. You have to go check out the port­fo­lio page on TypeMedia2011.org to see more great com­bi­na­tions along with an accom­pa­ny­ing Quintet Serif to carry body copy. You bet­ter believe as soon as this becomes avail­able for use, I’m jump­ing all over it.

Quintet Script Example "Beautiful Day" - Three layered formal script

 Final Mentions to Check Out