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October 13, 2021

Emil Bertell’s Kiosk Has Everything

Kiosks can be found the world over, small closets tucked into the walls of residential streets or brightly lit beacons on major thoroughfares. These little shops often cater to the late night crowd with a variety of instant midnight delicacies or emergency beverages. Although beer and cigarettes...

September 6, 2021

Stribe from Wisnu Cipto Wibowo

Stribe from Wisnu Cipto Wibowo. Stribe strikes entirely different chords in basic, rounded, or marker. But whether it's the kinetic marker mode or the strong declarative basic, all forms of Stribe are fun, full of comic book energy and street artists on the run. Stribe rounded for a new graphic ...

August 18, 2021

Hugh Ultra Wide—Big and Bold

The first fat font is generally attributed to Robert Thorne. He developed it in 1803 at his Fann Street Foundry—appropriately located in a former brewery. Fat fonts subsequently rose to prominence wherever bold was needed, often advertising and poster art. In keeping with the fat tradition, Hugh...

August 10, 2021

Sudtipos and the Magic of Magari

Magari from Sudtipos has roots in both the German and Italian print traditions. Magari's antecedents are alluded to on the pages of H. Berthold AG's type catalogues, circa 1900 to 1913, or perhaps in Berlin's William Gronau Foundry, circa 1890s. Prague's Gottlieb Haase Söhne also lightly shades ...

July 18, 2021

Mocking the Past with Cassette Tape Mockups

Hey, Indieground, leave us 1980s veterans in peace! Sure, we know those cassette tapes. They were in our collection when we deejayed the junior high dance in 1981. Turntables? Mixes? Mashups? Nope. We brought our Panasonic tape player from home, and we played your cassettes into a microphone tha...

June 18, 2021

Plastic Textures: This Bubble Wrap Pops

"Vintage" indicates something from a past era, or something new designed to have the appearance of the past. So although the word works to describe most of Indieground's products, it's not a perfect fit. The reason for that resides in the sheer perfection of Indieground's renditions. They are so...

June 14, 2021

II Vorkurs: Cultivate Imagination

The modular stencil sans serif Architype Albers was designed by Josef Albers at the Bauhaus in the late 1920s. If one considers its discrete geometric shapes and bold, poster-centric look, the connection it shares with II Vorkurs (German, preliminary course, the foundational classes at the Bauha...

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 ...

September 23, 2020

LC Gianluca: A Dramatic Flare Serif From Compania Tipografica de Chile

Founded in 2018 and based in both Chile and Argentina, the Compania Tipografica de Chile is operated by Gastón Uribe, Raúl Israel, and Alexis Navarro. The idea behind Compania Tipografica de Chile arose from their shared affinities for type design. When the foundry was established, the designers...

August 19, 2020

El Grosa: A Trio of Fonts That Celebrate Spanish Culture

Based in Indonesia, Wisnu Cipto Wibowo is a talented illustrator and typographer who revels in the artistic freedom offered by his chosen profession. His favorite part of the process is the gathering of ideas and watching them materialize before his eyes as he designs them. Taking all of his “wi...

July 29, 2020

Slandic: An Italic Humanist Script Family From Vibrant Types

Based in Hamburg, Philip Lammert is a graphic designer and typographer who studied for his master’s degree under the supervision of acclaimed typographer and calligrapher Jovica Veljovic. Philip’s passion for type design grew from his desire to understand the science behind the craft — discoveri...

July 6, 2020

Font Feature of the Month: Qirate Mono From Wisnu Cipto Wibowo

Living with his spouse and son in Indonesia, Wisnu Cipto Wibowo is a type designer and illustrator who releases work under the studio label, Fateh Lab. Aside from working on his own font projects, Wisnu works as a freelance illustrator for several brands and products. The one thing that draws Wi...

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