Picking fonts, not the easiest thing to do. But design student Julian Hansen has created a poster that kinda breaks it down into easy solutions.
Click the above image for a full size version.
Are there really easy solutions?
Swiss design uberguru Massimo Vignelli believes so. Here’s I Love Typography’s take on The Vignelli Twelve.
Found via Typekit
‘A retro-futuristic, soft display sans in seven weights’
Check out Carl Crossgrove’s fantastic new Biome Wide fonts. Details here.
Available thru fonts.com (and a few others).
The randomly-picked winner of my under-the-radar, spur of the moment Jeanne Moderno giveaway contest thing from this past week is Rebecca Spencer, who posted the comment:
rebecca spencer// Apr 10, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I really like the Jeanne Moderno faces… hope I win!!
The winning font has been emailed using YouSendIt. Thanks to everyone for the great comments and entries!
Please keep reading. More to come.
Knitting & Sewing Doodles, a dingbat font by Wisconsin-based Rae Kaiser. Available at MyFonts.
Part 1 of 2
‘Jim is affable and funny and incredibly humble, despite the caliber and profile of his work. It was a joy to spend time in his studio as he casually pulled from his flat files one landmark piece of design history after another.’
Stephen Coles sat down with Jim Parkinson and talked about his beginnings as a lettering artist, working at Hallmark, work for Rolling Stone, Newsweek (Dope-n-beer! Will never look at the Newsweek logo the same again), the circus and ‘cigar-smoking twits.’ FontFeed articles here, and here. Videos above (and below).
Roger Black on Jim Parkinson
Part 2 of 2
It’s always nice when a free font is actually a damn good font.
The normal weight of Fontfabric’s new Solomon is now available free.
The catch? You have to snag your copy – thru MyFonts – before May 10, 2010.
It’s a teaser to purchase the rest, but hey – Solomon is really nifty alternate to Lubalin’s Avant Garde family.
Good type free. What’s not to love?
This week I’m giving away a free licensed copy of Jeanne Moderno Geometrique ($32 USD value). Cause I feel like it.
To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. To comment, just click the ‘comment’ link below (and please fill out all the fields).
I will randomly select one winner from the comments. The winner will be notified by email and the font will be sent via YouSendIt.
Contest ends 11 p.m. (pacific time) Friday, April 16, 2010.
And
You can also snag a print or greeting card or postcard of the above image. Zazzle does a great job with these – even though their onscreen previews look fuzzy. Been using the greeting cards a lot.
Need good font management for your Mac? Fontcase is pretty damn cool. The interface is a lot like iTunes or Adobe Bridge.
And this week only, Fontcase is giving away 3 free licenses. To enter, just go here and follow the directions. Contest ends April 14, 2010.
(And I’m entering too – I just haven’t gotten around to paying for my own license.)
Lowercase ‘g’ study by Matthew Valentine from mehallo’s beginning type course
Here’s a great opinion piece on typographic education by Patrick Griffin.
Found via Oded Ezer
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