About Friends of Type:
Erik sent me a sweet sketch. I said, “you should post that!” He was like, “where?” So there you go. 8 hours later, at about 4am EST and 1am PST, we are Friends of Type.
We are, at the moment, alphabetically:
This is a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue. Please contact us if you’re also a friend of type: hello@friendsoftype.com
We're done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won't have it. It's time to raise our standards. Here, you'll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
Like any revolution, we aim to make progress, and we need help. If you want to be a part of this free, open-source type movement, you should join us and contribute. If you have any questions about The League or the movement, get in touch.
Friday Fresh Free Fonts on this blog
Thanks to Kim for telling us about this Tekserve contest
Design the next Tekserve Mac FAQ book cover to win amazing prizes from Adobe, Wacom, and Tekserve. Three finalists will be chosen to win over $2,500 in prizes. The artist with the winning cover will be published on the 10th edition of the Tekserve Mac FAQ and win the grand prize! Enter up to five covers by April 30th, 2010.
One Grand Prize:
Two Finalist Prizes:
letterPLAYGROUND is a place to play with letters.
Letters are so simple but can be represented a million different ways.
How many different ways can you represent the letter "M" or the number "6"?
Thanks for participating,
Even with a small sample of 100 typefaces, a timeline shows quite accurately the acceleration and proliferation of type design during the 20th century. Click on a typeface name to find out more. | The scale changes increment (x3) from 1900 onwards to show the number of types produced; the important manufacturing innovations that fuelled this increase are shown in red. | Although the traditional categories of type (like old style, transitional etc.) are based on historical developments, in a diagram like this all styles appear to co-exist without any clearly defined boundaries. |
AIGA/NY is excited to have Patrick Borelli perform his one–man multimedia show, "You Should Judge a Book by Its Cover," where he takes thirty of the oddest book covers and tears them a new one. Joining him on stage are Dan Kennedy (author and host of Moth Story Slam), comedienne Julie Klausner and book cover designer Evan Gaffney. The show also features videos of interviews Patrick conducted with Steven Heller, Chip Kidd and Rodrigo Corral.
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