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Have some cake

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

Found via LAWeekly

Tags: culinary, fonts, typography by steve
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TYPEFACE: Font design based on actual faces

‘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.

Tags: cool finds, design, education, fonts, typography by steve
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Desk Ampersand

‘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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Jeanne Ampersands

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

Tags: fonts, illustration, mehallo merchandise, typography by steve
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Ampersand of the day

Daily ampersands over at Tumblr.

Found via Steven R. Shearer

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Coming Together: Ampersands for Haiti

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 that is now available here (thru Ascender). And here (thru Veer). It will be available in other places too, MyFonts later this week.

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.

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

Tags: cool finds, design history, education, fonts, typography by steve
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‘Typography is Sexy’

‘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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‘Love Fonts Memo is a classic memory game where it’s all about finding a matching pair of cards. At the end the player with most card pairs wins. The cards represent love stories about different kind of type faces.’

The work of Swedish design student/freelance designer Sara Strand.