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Brownstone by Alejandro Paul

Alejandro Paul has just released Brownstone, a new monoweight font family complete with a set of luscious interconnected border options.Decorative yet simple.



Purchase individual weights from Veer or the whole font family from Paul's foundry, Sudtipos.



More images can be seen on Typography Served.

Flat-It Font Foundry

While doing a little font research today, I stumbled across the deliciously vintage fonts from Flat-It, the brain child of Japanese type designer Ryoichi Tsunekawa. There is an brief interview with Tsunekawa on MyFonts. His fonts are designed in OpenType with attention to detail including serif connections, extended character sets for European languages, ligatures and alternate characters.

The worst thing? Trying to decide which fonts I'll buy first!

[Camera is available in 3 weights and includes extensive ligatures, small caps and full European character sets]

[HT Libreria by Flat-It]

Font-of-the-Week: Miller

I am totally in love with Miller. I have used the font in the past, but over the past week I have become intimately acquainted with it and just love how it looks and acts. It looks timeless yet modern and you can beautifully mix italics, caps and simple text to create elegant and lovely designs. I thank type god Matthew Carter bringing such a lovely typeface into existence.

Font-of-the-Week: Waza

Waza is a newly released font from type designer Franciszek Otto. It comes to life with pretty, whimsical swash caps and lovely ascenders and descenders. Pick it up today for a steal from for just $52.

Font-of-the-Week: BAnkrutt

Today while doing research for a project for work, I stumbled across the SMeltery type foundry create by GUsto design group out of out France. I was super excited to see lots of great free fonts and wondering if we had covered them on P+P and it turns out that Ana and I think alike cuz she had already nominated them as a Font-of-the-Week. I want to nominate them again because I have a small weakness for black letter and was excited by their stencil black letter type called BAnkrutt.

Font-of-the-Week: Megolopolis Extra

This week's font-of-the-week is a new OpenType version of Megalapolis Extra from Smeltery. This font includes alternates, ligatures and many other options. Read their user's agreement and you may qualify for a free copy of the font. Sweet!

Font-of-the-Week: History

Typotheque has created a typeface called History that is made up of 21 layers (font variations) inspired by the evolution of typography. It starts with a basic set of Roman caps and each of the iterations shares the same widths and metrics so each layer can be combined to create a vast array of type styles, adding slabs, pixels, shadows or decorations. History is an OpenType family that is available with an online application called History Remixer to help control and mix the 21 layer options. History Remixer allows users to enter the text only once and then adjust various layers' colors, visibility and opacity and then generate a hi-rez PDF of the finished lettering.

Font-of-the-Week: Trixie HD

[Desktop wallpaper design from FontFont to celebrate the newest version of Trixie]

Font Font has released a new version of Erik van Blokland's face Trixie, best known as the X in the X-Files logo and any other place where the digital world needed the mystery and intrigue of a good lo-tech type solution. The newest version, Trixie OT HD, offers more variations and utilizes the power of OpenType to provide several alternate versions of each character to more realistically simulate an old typewriter. Additional options allow for the censor feature, erratic baselines and fake Cyrillic.

Cue eery music now.

Fonts of the Week: Brothers and Council

[Top: Brothers font. Below: Council font.]

I love yummy, thick and interesting slab serifs that remind me of another era. That is probably why I love Brother and Council both by John Downer. Typofabulous Emigre offers both fonts for reasonable prices.

Font(s) of the Week: Kinescope + Lakeside

Mark Simonson was inspired to create Kinescope from Superman cartoons and then used OpenType technologyto provide a wide range of alternate lead-ins, exit strokes and alternate characters. For all this hard work, the starting cost for this font is a measly $29. Available at Veer, FontShop and others.



Mark has also just released another 1940s style typeface called Lakeside based on the hand-lettered titles for the film Laura. It also employs OpenType technology for the perfect look including three sizes of caps, alternate characters and the cross bar of the lowercase t will extend itself if space allows. Lakeside starts at $39 and is available through Fonthaus and other vendors.

Check Mark's website for more information and to view pdf user's guides for both faces.

[Tip from Typographica.org]

Font-of-the-Week: Circus Maximus

Circus Maximus is a very well executed non-font: a bumpy, chunky, anti-helvetica. Created by Blake Marquis, this set of alphabetical charaters is sold as a set of EPS drawings. For a mere $18.95, what are you waiting for?

Font of the Week

Fun type to celebrate the Year of the Rat from le pen quotidien. Gung hay fat choy!

Font-of-the-Week: Burgues Script

Burgues Script is part of the Alejandro Paul script collection available at Veer. This is an OpenType font that includes a ton of swashes and alternates to best recreate the the hand of an Engrossing calligrapher. One weight with a bazillion characters is $99 or available as part of the Alejandro Paul script collection for $395

Beautiful Fonts; Little, Tiny Price Tag

[Fontin Sans – 5 weights plus a set of ligatures and a smaller serif collection as well]

Exljbris is offering a collection of seven elegant, usable font families including extended language support, ligatures and multiple weights. The cost: $0. The creator, Jos Buivenga, does ask that you make a small donation via PayPal for use of the fonts and adhere to his usage agreement. The fonts are so beautiful that a small donation seems like a pittance for such quality craftsmanship.



[Diavlo, a 5-weight font family with over 3200 kerning pairs]

Font-of-the-Week: Milk Script

This beautiful poster set was created by The Decoder Ring Design Concern from Austin, Texas. The poster features Milk Script which was designed by Sudtipos and is available for purchase from Font Shop for $59US.



[Font Specimen of Milk Script Regular]

[Tip from The Font Feed]

Fonts of the Week: Feel Script and Ventura

[Top: Feel Script. Below: Ventura]

I love script typefaces, but it is hard to find ones that don't look clunky or cheesy. Veer has just introduced to new fonts that both look gorgeous – Feel Script and Ventura. I am going keep both of these in mind when I start to design my wedding invitations.

Font of the Week: Metroscript

Script fonts make me weak. I saw Metroscript in a book at work and just knew I had to have it. True love?

Font-of-the-Week: The Shire Types

Deliciously chunky and yet uniform in x-height, the Shire Types have a somewhat historical, somewhat modern look to them. These letters speak of manual labor and industrial revolution. Designed by Jeremy Tankard and available for sale on his site.


[My favorite weight is Worcestershire]

Font-of-the-Week: Gill Sans

In a blatant case of cross-pollination blogging, Jim Coudal posted a great link yesterday about the history and development of Gill Sans from Typotheque.

Cool things I learned from actually reading the (rather lengthy) article:

1. Gill Sans (and its variations past and present) are the Helvetica of England
2. Gill Sans was inspired by the type for the London Underground and not the other way around.
3. The London Underground type was created by Edward Johnston and has been lovingly revived by P22 and and ITC.
4. The whole article made me reconsider the impact English typographers have had in the creation of modern type design.