Woodkit by Ondrej Jób

October 22, 2014 at 10:24 am

Consider my mind blown. I’m try­ing to find the appro­pri­ate words to con­vey the awe­some­ness of the Woodkit type­face sys­tem Ondrej Jób has designed, but it isn’t hap­pen­ing. I keep stum­bling between mouth agape silence and repet­i­tive, high-pitched OMGs like I’m a tween girl at the lat­est boy band of the month con­cert. And then the occa­sion­al, “It’s freak­ing ridicu­lous,” pops into my head. Okay, type­gasm over. Let’s just leave it at you should total­ly check this out over on Typotheque.

Woodkit Typeface by Ondrej Jób, Available through Typotheque, white distressed wood block type on black background, rotating letterforms, opentype alternates

Newberry Printing History

August 19, 2014 at 10:15 am

The Newberry, an inde­pen­dent research library in Chicago, is cat­a­loging and pro­cess­ing over 29,000 print­ed items that had been back­logged. Type spec­i­mens, fron­tispieces, illus­tra­tions, and adver­tise­ments from the John M. Wing Collection are see­ing the light of day and the scan­ner. The library start­ed a tum­blr to help expose the work to the world.

One of my favorites so far is this wavy wood type spec­i­men sheet from the Morgan Press.

Newberry Printing History, Morgan Press Type Specimen, Wavy Wood Type, Supplement Number One, press sheet

(via @okaytype)

Wallpaper Wednesday — No. 12

November 2, 2011 at 7:05 am

On the first Wednes­day of every month, I’m going to pull togeth­er some inspi­ra­tions and resources I have around and make some sweet desk­top wall­pa­pers. It’s usu­ally just going to be one or two at a time. They will be all over the place, from type relat­ed to what­ever cool pat­tern I might be dig­ging at the moment. As always, let me know what you like or if there is some­thing you want to see.

Fatboy Type Love

If you haven’t heard of the Wood Type Revival, stop read­ing now and go check it out… don’t worry this post will still be here when you get back. They released an ini­tial free ver­sion of Fatboy as part of their Kickstarter cam­paign which I’ve had sit­ting around for awhile and want­ed to do some­thing with it. Once I saw these vin­tage paper tex­tures from Bittbox, things just rolled togeth­er real fast. I topped it all off by set­ting SpareType in Old Press — a font that will be part of this mon­th’s Headline Heads Up.

Fatboy Type Love Wallpaper Preview

Fatboy Type Love Wallpaper Preview

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