How am I supposed to categorize these impossibly beautiful display ampersands, packaged both as .eps vector files and opentype font? Are they typography or just icon design?
While I try to solve this “visual” conundrum, you can take a look at this website and find who really were Haäfe & Haph.
Mixing different weight and style and, possibly, different typefaces, is one of the most ancient trick in modern typography. The risk is that sometimes text is not enjoyable or readable, but we think this is not the case.
The day is coming when you can walk on your bare feet for this charitable event: people are asked to go the day (or part of if or even just a few minutes), barefoot, to experience a life without shoes first-hand for spreading awareness about the impact a simple pair of shoes can have on [...]
A slightly embossed alphabetical menu lets you browse this website displaying tons of free fonts to download.
The ampersand was originally a ligature of the letters E and T, invented to write swiflty the latin conjunction ET, which means “and”.
Maybe because of its tensile form and its fluid swooshes the ampersand is nowadays one of the most en vogue character and quite an obsession for typophiles: so if you too are a [...]
Pedemontana it’s the name of a new big highway system that will connect Milan to other cities of northern Italy. This website’s art direction is from Leftloft, a big communication and identity studio based in Milan: the use of many different typographic weights and styles loosens up the grid stiffness while revealing an editorial, newspaper-like, [...]
If it’s not a rule, it’s an established trend that big typograhic treatments requires few text, big spaces and consistent page structures.
As in this case, a huge heading with a 3 columns grid it’s a common but effective layout pattern that has the pros of enganging readers attention and making texts easy readable.
Hitchcock is a great free font inspired by Saul Bass titles (though the lettering artist that did the lettering for the Saul Bass was Art Goodman) and we are extremely grateful to Matt Terich for having recreated all these beautiful glyphs.
If you want to see a good application of this typeface to an existing layout, [...]
We’re enthralled by the way Andrew’s logo plays with Heltevica A negative space.
So clever!
Crowleywebb is an AD agency located in Buffalo with a quite surprisingly unconventional flash website. I think it’s a bold move for an agency to put aside any graphic treatments, relying only on typography and copy. As you will see, the splash page is brilliant, the text treatment is simple yet effective and the transitions are smooth [...]
According to the website’s About page, Hitotoki
is a Japanese noun comprised of two components: hito or “one” and toki or “time,” and is often translated as “a moment.” In common usage, it can be used to describe any brief, singular stretch of time (if we share a meal someday, you can call that a hitotoki).
To put it [...]
Shopping lists is a fab typographical project: this blog’s aim is turning little lost shopping lists into typography posters, showing that some poetry can be found also in a neglected piece of paper, trashed onto some store’s floor.
For each saved specimen, Shopping Lost displays the original shopping list, who found it, where it was found [...]
Sometimes you can get tired of perfectly shaped types or you just want for your website’s typography that little organic hint which only a hand drawn font can give you.
If you’re needy for inspiration you can look at Kyle Steed’s portfolio entirely based on his Steed, a nice vector font that Kyle decided to share with [...]
If you’re a typography geek as I am, you already know it, but for those rerefied minds that didn’t have yet the pleasure to discover it, Typetees is an online shop dedicated to showcase the best typographical tees available on the web.
The tees are amazing and the overall layout feel is clean, fresh and quite agreable, with [...]
Aside from its beeing a blast and a really entertaining specimen of geeks literature, Ellis Weiners’ piece published on the New Yorker’s online edition helps me illustrate how a very simple vertical line and a little shot of red can trick our attention into reading an otherwise neglected content.
In the overall economy of New Yorkers’ [...]
