There’s a lot of type today so let’s begin: Sudtipos released today Bravissima, a wild script typeface, which according to Robert Bringhurst would be an expressionist typeface. Looks really good as it is usual with Sudtipos. Are you already a fan of Sudtipos in Facebook?
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Robert Lindström, the Art Director of North Kingdom, offers a nice font for free download in vectorial format at his blog Designchapel. The typeface Black Nun Bold is a big fat font suitable to compose a nice poster.
SudTipos, the amazing type foundry from Argentina, released Semilla yesterday, a new ornamental display typeface and it looks absolutely gorgeous. You just have to love the marvelous terminations like those in Roses or Zoe above. And what about the ligature of ’ss’ characters ? I find interesting how the lowercase ‘g’ and ‘y’ saves a lot of vertical space. I am amazed at how each glyph has its own strong identity, for example the stems on top of the ‘f’ and ‘c’.
Read the great Ale Paul interview conducted by MyFonts. Ale Paul is co-founder of SudTipos and one of the best typographers in the world.
Don’t you feel sometimes that the ‘e’ in Twitter doesn’t quite fit the rest of the characters? let alone the weird difference between the first ‘t’ and the rest of the word. Well, Masayuki Sato states in this Flickr entry that the ‘twi’ and ‘r’ were type using his font, Pico-alphabet, which he released back in 2001.
Masayuki Sato has a lot of typefaces available for download at his site, mostly handwritten fonts, display fonts and even some dingbats.
The University of Reading published the works from the MA Typeface Design class of 2009. The image above corresponds to one of my favourites: the typeface ”You Are Here” by Gesine Todt from Germany, who has an outstanding design portfolio as well.
FontShop released today two beautiful fonts for free, the exquisite Sovereign (above, its Regular weight) and the sleek Dagney (its Thin weight). Read more
