‘The name says it all: FontFont’s Basic Gothic is a neutral American grotesque for all purposes, something between Gill Sans and Verdana.’
More from Hannes von Döhren: The Basic Gothic types were a joint project with Livius Dietzel. Basic Gothic uses ideas from the 19th Century – resulting in some really nice workhorse fonts for today.
Grab the Regular weight free here. Another limited time offer.
‘An extended family of 36 fonts inspired by Swiss type design.’
Released just this year, Supria Sans is an incredible new type family designed by Hannes von Döhren.
And you can snag the Regular weight (+ Italic) free here. Offer ends Monday, February 28, 2011.
‘it is a passion and a drug’
Swedish type designer Stefan Hattenbach makes incredible letterforms. And his body of typographic work has run the range from experimental to traditional and experimental traditional. They’re always a pleasure to set on a page.
This month, Stefan’s one of MyFonts’ Creative Characters.
Read the interview here.
Check out Stefan’s website here.
‘Another inspiration was the film MAX (2002), written and directed by one of Emigre magazine’s founders, Menno Meyjes . . . I decided Jeanne would be a fictional typeface that was released in 1918, the timeframe from the movie.’
Ascender is running a little sale on some of my fonts. 25% off until March 5, 2011. Offer only available thru Ascender’s website. For details, go here.
(and watch the trailer for MAX here)
‘Rag & Bone enlists an astonishing top models cast for their SS11 campaign shoot – photographed by models themselves and their friends’
Many years ago, I worked on an ad campaign that took this candid approach. Only without the supermodels. And ultimately, without approval. Our series, targeted to IT professionals, would have been the first printed appearance of Psy/Ops’ Default Gothic – we were doing our mockups using beta versions of the fonts.
Pictured: Abbey Lee Kershaw, Sasha Pivovarova, Lily Aldridge and Edita Vilkeviciute
Found via Design Scene
‘Unlike conventional fonts, Chan’s Sade fonts are comprised of sexual phrases and sentence fragments rather than letters, so that what is typed on the keyboard is not what appears on the screen.’
Type a letter, get a phrase. Type a sentence, get a story.
18 TrueType fonts by Paul Chan. Download them free here.
Found via Fleshbot
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