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Type Together’s Etica fonts are a rethinking of Helvetica for the 21st Century. Details here.

Found via Helen Brennan

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‘The lettering was based both on Mayan hieroglyphics for their shape and grid-like structure and the hand painted lettering found on signs all over Mexico’

Designer Mike Abbink and Paul van der Lann’s Deuno Sans, designed for El Banco Deuno (One’s Bank) in Mexico. Details here.

Unfortunately, Deuno is not available for licensing.

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In honor of Fuck Week, here’s a Helveticake. And how it was made.

Found via LAWeekly

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‘TYPEFACE is a piece of custom software that translates facial dimensions into generative type design.’

By CIID student Mary Huang. Check out this detailed article at PSFK.

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westsac is back!
Chank has updated his most popular freefonts with extended language support. And they’re only free for a limited time. Grab WestSac, Rapscallion and Saucy Millionaire at Chank.com

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‘A chance to re-design any classic book is always exciting. Classics usually allow for a more personal interpretation, since most people are already vaguely familiar with the premise of the books, and I didn’t have to compete with one well-known cover, as I might have with a more recent book.’

The work of Jim Tierney. More book jacket details here.

Would make Doc Brown proud.

Found via ColourOfAir and Jessica Hische

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‘You can’t tempt a font designer with a carrot  . . .  but a nice red ampersand will do.’ -me

A while back, I was running thru Pottery Barn on my way to the Apple Store. This red one was on mark down. Marked wayyy down.

It called to me.

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Some of the ampersand options available in my Jeanne Moderno fonts.

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Daily ampersands over at Tumblr.

Found via Steven R. Shearer

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SOTA’s Font Aid IV jumped into action a few weeks ago – to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti.

The result was released today. A collaborative font.

purchase
Snag your copy of the Coming Together font thru any of these sources:

[1] Ascender Fonts

[2] Veer

[3] MyFonts

[4] FontShop

The font sells for 20 bucks (US) and all proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders to help the people of Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake.

all ampersands
The font consists of just under 400 ampersands from type designers from around the world – including myself (see below).

For more about ampersands, history and use, read Steve Matteson’s article here. For more about Font Aid IV, go here.

That be mine

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‘Baby, you’re my Univers. Meeting you was no Akzidenz. I can see that we‘ve got a great Futura. We were Meta be together.’

Handmade by Machine’s Just My Type greeting cards. Details here. Unfortunately, only UK-shipping is available for now.

Found via cebe design

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