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.
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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.)
‘Limited edition 2009 Klim Type Foundry specimen book. 210 × 140mm 96 page book, printed black on 118gsm Mohawk Navajo. Sewn-sections, Otabind binding.’
Great fonts by Kris Sowersby, great specimen book.
(Tho: I always knew Klim as Milk spelled backwards)
Go here.
Found via Stefan Hattenbach
‘Award-winning Typo-Animation that gives you a clear impression of the enormous amount of visual stimuli that plague us every day.’
Grab a Heine and look around. Type is everywhere.
Kapitaal is a film by Ton Meijdam, Thom Snels, Béla Zsigmond of Netherlands-based Studio Smack. Music by The Exploding Shetland Ponies.
I don’t buy a calendar anymore.
Because, like clockwork, a super cool one will arrive in the mail; typically a bit after the New Year has arrived.
For the past 15 years, Thomas Krug has been mailing me an incredible calendar. It often arrives in a large box and it always dazzles. Elaborate printing techniques, special inks, die cuts – a mesmerizing trip of photography and design.
Thomas is the owner of the Traffic design agency in Winnenden, Germany. And his firm’s self-designed calendar is one helluva promotional item. [Read more →]
I Love Typography takes a look at the holdings of the library of the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. More than just Bibles.
Article here.
The concept of ‘negative space’ (or ‘white space’) as an important part of type design is very difficult to teach. The student either sees it right away, it clicks over time or sometimes the concept is just weird enough to cause them to back away very slowly.
It’s a up is down, left is right sort of thing. Pen strokes are important, but so are the parts that aren’t made by the pen.
Just the right amount of negative space defines the character and readability. Claude Garamond (c. 1480-1561) was a master at this; it’s one of the reasons his types are still incredibly popular today.
Here’s some cap E comparisons to chew on.
Plus, here’s a great breakdown of today’s Garamond interpretations (images below).
And, an interview with the master himself.
Cap Es found via Nina Stoessinger; Garamond comparisons by Barney Carroll
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