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May 4, 2023

Exploring The Bones of Typography: Part One

Typographic terms can seem downright confusing when you don't know exactly what they mean, so we thought it would be fun to do a three-part series that really digs into the bones of typography. Through a little digital archeology, we're going to explore the structure of letters and drop a little...

October 20, 2022

Nomina – a practical sans serif font inspired by the roots of Helvetica

Inspired by classic grotesque fonts like Venus and Akzidenz-G, the brilliantly executed sans serif font Nomina proves there is plenty of room to be creative and distinct within a highly usable font. Nomina's clever details distinguish the font, while in no way impeding Nomina's smooth readabilit...

September 7, 2022

An Elegant Serif Font for Classy Designs

The fact that a beautifully designed serif font works so well for wedding invitations and high fashion partially explains why sans serif fonts were originally called grotesque fonts. The delicate serifs imbue graphic design with class, whatever the use: fashion, magazines, logo design, branding,...

July 12, 2022

A Fabulous Update to The Ultimate 1970s Retro Font

Cooper Black has been a classic for over a century, and it's the inspiration for a fabulous new font from Emil Bertell: Chunk Black. Chunk Black features a hefty character with rounded serifs and a soft yet sturdy overall appearance. Chunk Black provides a timeless and friendly feel, making it i...

April 10, 2022

A Fresh Alternative to Cooper Black Font

Bogart was designed in 2020 by Francesco Canovaro as a personal homage to the iconic look of low-contrast old-style fat faces, like Cooper Black (Oswald Bruce Cooper, 1922) and Goudy Heavy Face (Frederic W. Goudy and Sol Hess, 1925-1932). Originating from the modern old style of Bookman, these m...

August 12, 2021

Bodoni Ferrara and the Count’s Cape

You just finished your workout in the four-car garage where you keep your Bodoni Ferrara. Sure, you could afford three more cars, but why? The Ferrara's subtle curves offset by the V16's entirely indiscrete power—what could beat it? But despite the way this car struts up and down the catwalk, it...

July 26, 2021

Straight from the Cardium

The word Cardium comes from the Greek word for heart. Used alone, it denotes the heart's protective region. It also refers to the Cardium Formation, an oil and natural gas area of Canada, and it denotes Cardium Pottery, a signature of the Neoloithic era. In 1758 the common cockle, an edible clam...

July 21, 2021

Fontfabric’s Code Next, A Geometric Masterpiece

Fontfabric in Sofia, Bulgaria is a studio wholly dedicated to their craft. When they say they draw on 1000 years of Glagolitic and Cyrillic heritage, they mean it. The Fontfabric staff can tell you all about how Boris I established and commissioned the Preslav Literary School to develop Early Cy...

June 25, 2021

A Dripping and Melting Font Design

Here you are again, trying to select a birthday gift for those two difficult girls, those twin cousins of yours that make you uneasy for some reason—especially when you visit that remote hotel they live in, and see them standing at the end of a hallway holding hands asking you to come play with ...

June 21, 2021

Meutas: An Everywhere Font

We are confident Meutas is a font we'll be seeing a lot of very soon. This is the brilliant common object, the indispensable tool we take a closer look at and realize we are holding a work of art. Meutas can be broadly applied across a sprawling range of commercial, technical, and private medium...

June 3, 2021

Garet: A Highly Versatile Sans Serif from Spacetype

Spacetype is a super cool foundry based in Bulgaria's ancient beautiful capital Sofia. The founders Mirela Belova and Stan Partalev recently enjoyed Cyrillic Alphabet Day on May 24th where they celebrated the Bulgarian alphabet and Slavic culture and literature. They seek to flavor all their fon...

March 29, 2021

New Fonts by Yellow Design Studio & Mark Simonson!

Cardium by Yellow Design Studio Cardium is a hard-working 54-font modern geometric sans. It’s versatile, clean, legible, and slightly dissident. Cardium shares much of its DNA with our Draft type suite but is more utilitarian. It’s a comprehensive family with nine weights from Hairline to Black ...

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