Type designers often try to make analogies between fonts and people or other objects, for example “if fonts were humans” or “dogs as typefaces“. Mary Huang took this idea one [...]
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James Reynolds is a talented young designer from London. You should definitly check out his portfolio, there isn’t a lot of work yet since he just graduated, but you will [...]
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Subtitude is a small design studio from Montreal, in Quebec. They just launched a bunch of products: fonts, vectors, cards,… It’s been a real pleasure for me to browse their [...]
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Early this year I published a post with 15 typography-based objects, since the creative work around typography is so amazing, I thought that I should do another roundup on that [...]
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Using grids for design is far from new, but it never gets old. The following images showcase some great uses of the grid, but they are far from exhaustive. 1. [...]
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Wooden type blocks table, I want one! Every typography lover is by definition a fan of printed documents. However, beautiful typography can be also be found on objects and products. [...]
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After recently writing about logo design, I thought that it would be good to give examples of what are good logos. Of course, many of these don’t respect some of [...]
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Miyagi is a redesign of “Yagi Link Double”, a letraset font. It’s a creative and beautiful work by designer Alex Haigh. I thought that Designer Daily’s readers would be interested [...]
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You can probably spot a type specimen when you see one. They started as no more than a way for printers to demonstrate to their buyers how a certain typeface [...]
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Russian calligraphy is far from being as famous as chinese or arab calligraphy. From what you’ll see in the following examples, it’s a shame that it doesn’t get more exposure. [...]
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In my last two post, I tried identifying alternatives to well known serif and sans typefaces. I barely scratched the surface, so I thought I’d provide a list of more [...]
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Gotham Ah, Gotham, the vernacular, everyman sans serif. It’s likely to be the Helvetica of 2007–08, or better yet, “The New Helvetica.” It’s forms are sturdy, and its character distinct [...]
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Hello, my name is Bram, a brand strategist, hacker and typophile. I’ll be guest blogging for Designer Daily during Mirko’s vacation week. Consider this fact: today, we have more typefaces [...]
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Typographie: A Manual of Design is a must-have book for every graphic designer. The author, Emil Ruder, is a Swiss typographer who thaught in that field for over twenty-five years [...]
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I only came across the TypeCulture website today, it’s a real shame I didn’t get to discover it earlier. This site is pretty much the best one I’ve seen on [...]
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When talking about street typography, people will immediatly think of graffiti. This is of course part of the typographic elements you’ll see in the streets, but it’s far from being [...]
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There isn’t many blogs solely dedicated to typography, but many blogging graphic designers out there love typography and they usually tend to be either grid maniacs or letterpress lovers, or [...]
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I’ve been having a lot of fun this morning with the Type is Art website. This experiment let’s you appreciate the beauty of type by focusing on parts of a [...]
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March 18th, 2010 
