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Titillation
‘Designed by Suomi Type Foundry, Titillation is a rounded, tall and modern styled sans’
Tomi Haaparanta’s Titillation font. Available here.
‘Love Boot’
‘Exciting, Neue, Romance! Adventure!’
‘Love Boot’ prints, cards and postcards.
Vintage, repeating playbill poster design featuring type and boot dingbat from my Jeanne Moderno fonts.
And . . . Save $10 on your order of $35 or more at my store. Restrictions apply, go here for details/to get the discount.
(The prints come out really nice too)
Chank, for Target
While everyone’s gone Missoni for Target crazy, Chank Diesel and Anne Ulku snuck a little custom font into this year’s Target Halloween promos.
Details here.
Swooshy! Van den Velde Script
The newest font package from Brazil-based Iza and Paulo W of Intellecta Design is pure pen magic: A loose interpretation of the work of Dutch calligrapher Jan van den Velde, 1568-1623.
The Van den Velde fonts feature a bunch of stylistic alternatives, ligatures, swooshes, swashes and other strokes that say woooooooo!
Two frilly fonts are available – one with letters, alternates and fleurons – and a ‘words’ version that features a set of customized words to make any decorative communiqué become the domain of an expert penman.
Snag your own thru MyFonts. Both fonts are on sale thru September 27, 2011.
Niedermann Grotesk: My new, old font
Niedermann Grotesk is my newest font and it’s been sitting in the hopper for awhile.
It became a side project that appeared while I’d been working on my update to Jeanne Moderno (which is Jeanne Texte, which has been in a little limbo due to other projects) (I plan on getting back to it next month).
Along the way I fell in love with types that were part of the German Sachplakat (object poster) style pioneered by the great Lucian Bernhard – a lot of which can be seen (as backgrounds) in their original zeitgeist settings in the 1927 Ruttmann film I posted on Sunday.
Plakat lettering was drawn as needed, typically painted. For my adaptation, I went back to brush – and included a handful of alternative characters, ligatures, plus a few dingbats.
Grab your copy here.
And . . . Save 31%! Niedermann Grotesk is on sale right now at MyFonts. Sale ends September 22, 2011.
Off Book: Type
‘Type is universal’
Typography is everywhere – and as an art form is often overlooked.
There are very few actual documentaries about type – and PBS decided to take on the task of making one. Or in this case, remaking one. Off Book: Type premiered this week as sort of a seven minute version of Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica. Sort of. It IS a new doc, tho it does cover some ground already treaded.
Off Book is PBS’ new online series focusing on ‘experimental and nontraditional art forms.’ For more information, read here. Website here.
More lost type: PLINC is back!
Back in the day, Photo-Lettering Inc. was THE resource for custom set hedline typography, odd letter distortions and other custom font creations that were made possible by the new technology of the time, phototypesetting.
Since, PLINC’s original stock has been sitting in a warehouse. Just sitting. With the elements of time eating up the original negatives.
Several years ago, House bought rights to the collection and set about building an online version of PLINC’s original services – where type is sold one custom set headline at a time. PLINC fonts – which included a lot of ligatures and alternate characters – needed a professional typesetter at the helm.
Today, after years in development, low cost custom hedline type is now available digitally at the new PLINC website. One hed at a time . . . . [Read more →]
Honfleur
‘inspired by lettering on an antique perfume poster’
Ray and Chikako Larabie’s funky Honfleur font. Snag it free now, offer ends Saturday August 6, 2011.
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