Five more pages of surfing for type, lettering, fonts, calligraphy and cool stuff about typography are behind us. As we say goodbye to the 20th annual fonts surf, I’m thinking we may just be back to add yet more. Please send in your favorites to share with all other DT&G Magazine and Design Center readers! Enjoy:
[*] Lettering and Signage Trends at the Grocery Stores
[*] A cursive font you thought was done by hand
[*] Stephen Miggas of Aerotype Arbordale
[*] Take this FONT in your lunchbox
[*] Uber chic for cheap
. . . and more!
Five more pages of surfing for type, lettering, fonts, calligraphy and cool stuff about typography are behind us. As we say goodbye to the 20th annual fonts surf, I’m thinking we may just be back to add yet more. Please send in your favorites to share with all other DT&G Magazine and Design Center readers! Enjoy:
[*] Lettering and Signage Trends at the Grocery Stores
[*] A cursive font you thought was done by hand
[*] Stephen Miggas of Aerotype Arbordale
[*] Take this FONT in your lunchbox
[*] Uber chic for cheap
. . . and more!
Stephen Miggas of Aerotype Arbordale
An elegant release from Aerotype, the Arbordale design is a fluid, contemporary script. Refined without feeling stuffy, the design has a distinct charm; its ligatures, standard, and contextual alternates make the Arbordale typeface a versatile addition to any designer’s type library.
Other features include crossbar ligatures for common letter pairings, case-sensitive quotes and smart apostrophes. Arbordale Pro extends the character set to support Eastern European and Baltic languages.
Full story : Aerotype ~ Monotype Fonts Click here for: some more examples
A cursive font you thought was done by hand
Azola Cursive is an elegant connected letter cursive script arriving with a family of detailed & artistic styles. Azola Cursive features diagonal hatched texture, outline & solid variations. Azola Cursive is extended, containing West European diacritics & ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments & publications.
Also a boon to its versatility, the Azole collection features West European diacritics and ligatures, making it an apt choice for multilingual applications. Full story : Natsuko Hayashida ~ foundry Okaycat ~ Monotype Fonts Click here for: really cute examples
Take this FONT in your lunchbox
You’ll get three good weights with the Lunchbox family — and each with its own alternate characters and ligatures . . . LunchBoxSlab-Light, LunchBoxOrnaments, LunchBoxSlab, LunchBoxSlab-Bold
Your fonts menu will read LunchBox Slab, LunchBox Ornaments, LunchBox Slab, and LunchBox Slab. This OpenType features uppercase and small caps as well as Contextual Alternates — in specified situations, replaces default glyphs with alternate forms which provide better joining behavior. Used in script typefaces which are designed to have some or all of their glyphs join Full story : Kimmy Kirkwood Design ~ Monotype Fonts.com Click here for: another look
Uber chic for cheap
Madeline sends along these free fonts she’s chosen and writes :
I still love a good font that has hand drawn qualities. I have been collecting some of my favorite fonts with those qualities . . . Madeline is the uber chic for cheap: Return to Sender ~ Doodleista ~ Somebody I Used to Know ~ Learning Curve ~ Some Weatz ~ Matilde Sketch ~ Pablo ~ Carte Blanche ~ Shipped Goods ~ Frenchy ~ Castro Script ~ Amatic Dingbats ~ Bergamont Ornaments ~ Frames ‘n Ribbons ~ Free Ribbons ~ Cornucopia of Dingbats Three Full story : uber chic for cheap Click here for: another look
Lettering and Signage Trends at the Grocery Stores
Take a look at what’s trending in hand lettering and signage at local grocery stores with lettering artist, Jill Bell. From the casual chalkboard look, to corporate sign systems, see and hear what’s working, what’s not and why in this quick survey of seven stores in seven minutes.
Jill comments : I had a great time looking at these stores, talking to the employees and getting a take on what’s going on with signage in grocery stores these days. Hope you enjoy the essence of what I saw and found out that’s in this video. Full story : Jill Bell Brandlettering
How good does it get ?
There’s a ton of good fonts stuff left over, so we’ll probably pass along some of those into October and November. Unfortunately we didn’t hear very much from our readers . . . too busy with social media to get involved — but we had a great time and have included to some really beneficial goodies this month! Enjoy.
And, … The Fonts Fest Continues!
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