‘founded with the intention of providing unique and quality fonts based on a pay-what-you-want model. All designers get 100% of the donations their font receives.’
The Lost Type Co-Op is the brain child of Tyer Galpin and Riley Cran.
Peruse Lost Type’s fonts here. And pay what you feel the fonts are worth.
Neo2 cover. Photography by Paco Peregrin.
Plus, every issue of Neo2 comes with a free font. Details here.
Blog here.
Even more free wallpapers by Arno Kathollnig . . .
Franz Kafka Trilogy – featuring my own Chandler 42 fonts (with some pointing hands from Alta California).
‘Paul Renner’s Futura interpreted in metal’
Handmade model with engine. Cesar Santos Perez’s final project from my most-recent experimental typography course at Ai Sacramento.
‘inspiring homes with heart’
Magazines are great sources for inspiration. Not as permanent as a logo – or brand – periodicals have a timer on them. After a few months, they’re gone.
A good newsstand is a treasure trove of the experimental, conservative, international, concise, good, bad, ugly. I drop by whatever I can find – even the Barney Noble chain if one is not nearby – just for a shot in the arm.
Earlier this year I spotted Chandler 42 being used in an Australian interiors pub. Alexendria-based Inside Out is using my typewriter type as a nice accent throughout their pages.
Here’s a few snaps (taken in my new home office – sleepy dog in background).
Svend Smital’s Super Grotesk used on the cover of Brendan I. Koerner’s Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier’s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II.
Found via The Book Cover Archive
‘My father gave me some magazines from the 1920s and 1930s’
Hannes von Döhren’s Brandon Grotesque, influenced by early geometric types – available in six weights with true italics.
One of TDC’s 2011 award winners. Available thru HvD Fonts.
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