The Lost Type Co-op has launched. Go see what’s inside.
Free Faces is a website dedicated to free fonts that are readily available on the web that I use regularly and would like to share.
by Simon Foster
Web font services - An Overview by sprungmarker.de (Sylvia Egger)
Web fonts are here, sparking an exciting new era in web design. FFFFALLBACK makes it easy to find the perfect fallback fonts, so that your designs degrade gracefully… using magical unicorns and javascript rainbows, FFFFALLBACK clones the page and provides a tool where you can test and analyze different fallback font choices.
Photolettering.com is a new service that allows users to create, modify and purchase headlines from an easy-to-use online interface. The original Photo-Lettering was a mainstay of the advertising and design industry and was renowned for its unparalleled quality. Since acquiring the Photo-Lettering collection in 2003, House Industries has been working to recreate the attention to detail that the original staff dedicated to each headline.
The Letter-Heads is a Firefox 4 demo that lets you experience interactive shadow art. Meet different characters made with letters and text-shadow. Animated with CSS3+JS.
Daily Drop Cap is a project by designer & illustrator Jessica Hische. (@jessicahische)
Since September of 2009, an illustrative initial cap has been posted daily (or at least regularly), to prettify the internet and beautify your blog posts. Individuals are welcome to use the drop caps on personal (non-commercial) sites within blog posts by following the instructions below each letter. The project will end after the twelfth alphabet is complete, but the site will remain up for your use and inspiration.
CODEX | THE JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
… a fresh new quarterly print magazine with feature articles, type reviews, interviews, tips, type history, new and notable faces, essays, type design, from top web and print experts. 144 full-color pages. A4 (8”x11”).
Chartwell is a family that explores the use of OpenType to interpret and visualize data. The font format is highly portable and can be used in any application that supports standard ligatures. The data also remains editable allowing for easy updates. (via TK TYPE > Chartwell)
Iconic is a minimal set of icons consisting of 136 marks in raster, vector and font formats — free for public use. To give the greatest flexibility, the icon set packages all icons in PNG, SVG, SWC, OFT/TTF/EOT and Omnigraffle stencil formats. Iconic tries to work with various tools/workflows to make your life a bit easier.
Ampersand • The Web Typography Conference
Ampersand is an affordable one-day event for knowledgable web designers & type enthusiasts…
Typography Deconstruction Letterpress Poster
This letterpress poster is the result of several months of research both on the subjects of the Anatomy of Type and Type Glossary. Inspired by the craft of letterpress printing and a love for typography, Typography Deconstructed aims at providing a resource for educating those interested in what makes type… well, type.
Explorations in Typography / Mastering the Fine Art of Typesetting
/via @smcbride
Cue up a kaleidoscope of House Industries techniques, substrates, disciplines and muscle memory compressed into high-definition pixels and actively matrixed through modulated electroluminescence with an audio lesson from The Bird and The Bee. “Many thanks to Inara George and Greg Kurstin for loaning us their Polite Dance Song (under license from EMI).” The House Industries trailer is directed by Andy Cruz and filmed by Carlos Alejandro.
Wordmarks from a private stock of predigital lettering scoured from low resolution archives, personally converted to bezier outlines by Robb for use by today’s graphic designers who appreciate the wonky shapes of yesteryear.
