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advent

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:26:00 +0000

Andreas Kalpakidis released a final version of his display/sans typeface - advent pro.

Hello, i have just finished two years of work with advent font and i would like you to grab your copy. It is free, as always advent was.

You can download it from Andreas' dedicated deviantART page.

Meta Serif website

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:53:00 +0000

FontShop released a mini website for the new and wonderful Meta Serif.

There, you can read the story of this new typeface, see how people already used this typeface, some examples how Meta Sans and Meta Serif work together and you can even download the Glyph poster composed from all 709 glyphs of FF Meta Serif Pro.

Frutiger Serif

Wed, 14 May 2008 20:04:00 +0000

After FF Meta got a Serif version, now, with the 80th birthday of Adrian Frutiger, Linotype released a Serif version of Frutiger.

Based on an earlier typeface - Meridien - Frutiger Serif is a new typeface family, updated and expanded from Meridien and was produced by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi.
Some of the changes include more weights in the family, a condensed version, lining and OSF, small caps, extra characters, some revised characters and more.

For more details and samples, read Linotype's news page about this release.

Font Game

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:40:00 +0000

It is now The Rather ~~Difficult~~ Slow Font Game, because you really have to wait to be taken to the next typeface everytime.

Anyways, this is a simple and nice little typographic game.
I scored 34 out of 34, winning...the 13th place in the Hall of Fame.

So, you take it for a spin.

ilovetypography

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:52:00 +0000

ilovetypography is a website/blog dedicated to typography, featuring some fine articles and other handy typography resources. Go on, visit it. We can never know too much about typography, can we?

Typefaces of 2007

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:46:00 +0000

Typographica’s fourth annual review showcases the best

in new typeface design.

So here are the best typefaces of 2007 I think:

Some of them are great. And most of them are Sans typefaces, a rising trend in font usage in the last year it seems. But there are some great Serifs too, like Meta Serif or Arno Pro, my favorites.

Type Directors Club TDC2 2008 Winning Entries

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:25:00 +0000

Type Directors Club released the winners of this year's typeface selection.

Image credits: TDC

See the winning entries with images from the designers and admire the wonderful typefaces presented.

My favorites are Gloriola, Burgues Script by Alejandro Paul - the king of scripts, Mommie or Ventura.

All are fine typefaces and the competition was very interesting.

Irony mark

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:33:00 +0000

Underware, one of my favorite type foundries, released to the typography world a new mark, to express irony in writing.

Read the entire article and see the examples of use for the new mark on Underware's website.
So far, just a few typefaces listed there let you use the new irony mark, but the list could grow if more foundries will integrate it in their font families. A big boost could come from Adobe, Berthold, Linotype, FontFont and others if they will decide to support this new punctuation mark.
Simple and effective, I think it could work very well.

BusinessWeek redesign

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:18:00 +0000

It seems that BusinessWeek, one of the leading business magazines in the world, has changed their identity and the layout of the magazine.

Read more on BusinessWeek's website.
Also I've seen people already started commenting on Brand New.

I like better the new head and the new layout. Will wait for the Romanian issue before a more throughout review.

Adobe Font Folio 11

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:54:00 +0000

Adobe released Adobe Font Folio 11, with more than 2300 OpenType fonts available from the Adobe Font Library.

The price is starting from $2,599 and you can upgrade from $1,599. Very good value for a full OpenType library and a great deal for the most of us, designers and creatives.

You will get 170 new fonts, Unicode support, Enhanced linguistic support and a flexible licensing policy in 5-10-20 computer configurations with the new version.

Get the entire fonts list and see what goodies you can find.

FF Mt

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:14:00 +0000

Erik Spiekermann released a new typeface based on FF Meta that is ignoring any vowels entered, thus saving a lot of space and still maintaining readability.

You can still read this text:

FF Mt came out as an April Fools' Day joke, but now you can give it a try for free, because Erik released it to the public.

Working well with English, but if you try to use it in some Latin languages (Romanian, Spanish, Italian) you will lose meaning for most of the words.

Will this direction be the future of typography? Hard to tell, but FF Mt can have many applications from signage to phone books.

You can get FF Mt from Erik's website and go play with it.

Helvetica alternatives

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:23:00 +0000

Every designer knows Helvetica.
This typeface designed back in 1957 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann is widely used today by many for many of their projects. Sure, the simplicity, elegance, timelessness of this typeface makes it very versatile for almost any use in the design world.

But I have never used it. Not once!
Hard to believe, isn't it?

Well, I know there are designers who use Helvetica for all their projects. But not me.

I don't dislike this typeface, its just that I never got the change to use it properly. Always looked for a different typeface for every design project I was involved with.

Guess I always wanted to design something different every time and not choosing a typeface used by so many fellow designers, this was a big difference for me.
Or I had to communicate something else in every project I designed for.

And from this need to come up with something different every time, I looked for alternatives to a neutral typeface such as Helvetica, that I can use both for commercial work and personal experiments.

So, this would be my list of Helvetica alternatives:

New Fontin Sans

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:39:00 +0000

Jos Buivenga is now releasing Fontin Sans throught his free fonts library exljbris as a sans alternative for his other Fontin serif typeface.

Like the man says: "I've designed Fontin Sans to be a suitable sans companion of Fontin. With a nice classical appearance it will be a perfect match."

This is great news, because Jos's fonts are a really good alternative for commercial and expensive fonts.
They are available for personal and commercial use in any project you might need them for.

I've seen them used in many new identities, on banners or headers for blogs and I used them as well in some of my projects.

And you can extend the use of his fonts even more, with embedding in PDF's, Flash files and programs being now allowed.