typography

Panorama

Great panorama by Matt Lyon/C86 (above). Click for jump/larger view.

See more of Matt’s cool work here.

Tags: art, cool finds, illustration, typography by steve
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Ashley’s Ampersands

If you follow Ashley Simko’s blog, you’ll notice her content flows thru related themes. This is a collection of her ampersand posts.

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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.

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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.

purchase
Snag your copy of the Coming Together font thru any of these sources:

[1] Ascender Fonts

[2] Veer

[3] MyFonts

[4] FontShop

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.

all ampersands
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

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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.

Found via The Dieline

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Jessica’s initials

HE incredible Jessica Hische is also from Hazleton, PA.

Knows what a good Eastern Pennsylvania snack pitza is. Knows about this thing called Root Liquor (which I didn’t know about; I just know about Birch Beer, my favorite beverage from back there). And she’s been doing a drop cap a day for a few months now.

Drop caps, initial caps go wayyyy back – mainstays of illuminated manuscripts, and they’re part of the reason we’re still using caps today (for beginnings of sentences, names).

Jessica provides code to add caps to your own blog. Grab em here.

ND, as of last month, the caps are available as prints. Archival, on velvet coated fine art paper.

But that’s not all. Jessica has a bunch of other cool stuff in her store, including this wonderful ‘Day-Runining’ notepad (pics below). The pad has individual sheets one can send to unruly clients who don’t pay for your services, waste your time and – of course – ruin your day.

Order the pad here. Order the Drop Cap prints here.

And
Visit Jessica’s complete store here.