Design Jones

Check out Segura Inc HERE for a look at their recent project creating a custom series of fonts for Jack Daniel Distillery. “For the project, the three prominent lettering styles from the famous Black Label (c.1904) were developed into complete fonts.” What a cool project to work on, creating and building on something so instantly recognisable!

“TypoFlat is a personal & experimental project of designer Branislav S. Cirkovic. A set of EPS fonts and vector files free to download and create with. It’s a really nice set of resources and you’re free to build on them and share the results. You can take a closer look HERE.

One of my new business year resolutions is to attend a couple of design conferences and make time to visit some interesting exhibitions. Whilst ‘Type As Image’ may be a little too far to travel for me this time it certainly looks like it would be a great event plus there is a pop up store to many many of the beautiful objects. You can read more HERE. (Via CoolHunting)

A great new resource for quirky, interesting and distinctive fonts and what’s more the pricing is really reasonable. Check it out HERE.

Smashing Magazine have a great post linking through to some ‘beuatiful, free, high-quality fonts, you can see them HERE. My personal favourite comes from ‘The League of Moveable Type’ offering only the best of the best in free, open-source type, Chunk is one of four currently available but designers are invited to join the revolution and contirbute their own. You can view the collection and read their manifesto HERE.

Thanks to Dave for the link to this quirky font foundry specialising in the bizzarre, unique, sometimes odd but most importantly – handmade fonts. Check you the entire collection HERE.

The final resource is available from Chicago-based type foundry T.26 here. They have produced 2 volumes of wooden type impressions. Whilst the DVDs may seem highly priced compare to there usually competitive rates, the resources they contain are vast. And the real beauty of these 600dpi tiff files is that each ‘font’ has been produced with varying amounts of pressure applied so instead of ‘light, regular, bold’ and so on you get vary degrees of texture, depth, intensity and darkness. The only downside to this DVD is that they are only image files so you couldn’t realistically set large amounts of copy but unless you have any antique letterpress equipment lying around this is a must-have!