2013 was a year rich in new fonts, which makes it hard to sort out the best fonts in that period of time. Nevertheless, looking back at the year’s font catalogues, I’ll try to pick the ones I found the best. 1. Metro Nova This sans serif font family published by Linotype covers all the […]

Have you noticed a trend around layered fonts recently? I did, and I really enjoy this trend. These type systems usually allow for great flexibility and a focus around titling that I find very welcome. In this post I tried to make a selection of the best layered fonts currently available to designers. 1. Core […]

Whether you are a design studio, a freelance designer or simply a typography lover, building up a font catalog is a costly thing to do. Luckily there are quite often some deals that allow you to save some money while building a professional font catalog. 1. TipoType font bundle A great font pack that brings […]

I’ve been wondering today, if I started a design firm today and could only buy ten fonts, which fonts would it be? Well, here are the results… 1. Source Sans Pro Source Sans Pro is Adobe’s first open source font family. Open typefaces already existed before that, but even though some were very good, they […]

Hoefler & Frere-Jones, the famous New York based foundry, has recently launched its own cloud typography service. If Google Webfonts and other free font-face services are not up to your standards, you should definitively take a look at H&FJ’s alternative. They made the announcement through a gorgeous website that explains the core concept and all […]

With the rise of @font-face and the new possibilities it opens, web designers like to use fancy fonts to make their website more unique. However, this does come with a price, an more important loading time for web pages. If saving bandwidth and having fast loading pages is important for you, don’t worry too much, […]

For now the service is pretty much the same as what is offered by Google Web Fonts, but there is potential for improvement since Adobe owns Typekit and distributes its font library. Anyway it’s good to see a major player like Adobe taking steps toward the promotion of web fonts. Check out Adobe Edge Web […]

I just finished reading “Just My Type – a book about fonts”. I was expecting a more professional and technical book, but I enjoyed reading it nonetheless. The book is basically a bunch of type-related stories, anecdotes about fonts and more. I would recommend any font lover to read it, you’ll probably learn a lot […]

It’s been a while since our last collection of free fonts. Most of the fonts shared in this post shouldn’t be used for blocks of text, but they can be interesting for titles. 1. Lobster A script font with tons of ligatures and alternate. 2. Dekar Clean and lightweight sans-serif font. 3. Null Extra-bold rounded […]

This is good news for people who want to use professional fonts in their web designs, about 120 fonts of the Adobe collection have been added to Typekit. You can see all the Adobe fonts available on Typekit on that page, you can also learn more by reading the FAQ. I’ve been very excited when […]

For a recent project I’ve been needing some pictograms, my lazyness pushed me to use some existing ones and I ended up doing some extended research for it. So here are some great dingbat fonts that you can download for free. 1. Glyphyx 2. Pictogramz 3. Notice And of course, Notice 2. 4. Symbol signs […]

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 step further, she created a software that turns your face into a font. Basically, what this program does is to translate your facial dimensions to […]

Originally appeared as the subgenre of alternative rock music, grunge had turned into a whole culture or, to be more exact, into a subculture during the 80th-90th of the previous century. Grunge had a great influence on people’s minds and creative design trends, and though the glorious times of grunge have already faded away, its […]