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Urban Typography: Treasures in Plain Sight
When was the last time you strolled around and found yourself staring at banners, ads, billboards, pub signs, road signs, graffiti, shop fronts and the like? This could actually be the healthiest form...
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Wednesday Inspiration: Playful Types On Happy Homepages
We can all agree that typography is an essential part of web design. We can also agree that we can’t take our eyes off smart typography, especially when it mingles with other design elements. While...
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This Week in Type #1
There are articles you always save for later, send to your Kindle or read during an extended lunch break. These are the texts that break the daily online routine. We’ve put some of the most exciting...
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Typography Magazines, Journals and Hubs. Part 1
If you’re into typography, you know there’s more to life than just staring at types in the street, on walls and websites. You also subscribe to typography magazines that feed your addiction, right? On...
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Wednesday Inspiration: Textured Typography
There’s no big secret behind the popularity of textured types. They are fun, but they can also be realistic, and quite often they can be realistically funny. It’s about that extra touch that helps your...
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This Week in Type #2
Time to hit the exhibitions, people! Not the virtual ones, the real ones, with displays on walls, mingling and all. At least that’s what the articles we came across this week brought to our attention....
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Wednesday Inspiration: Non-fiction Book Covers
We’ve been browsing through virtual bookshelves and picked 15 covers that caught our eye. What’s special about them is the intense use of typography to the detriment of other design elements. Whether...
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This Week in Type #3
The last week of February made us think about the future of responsive typography, but also look back at pictograms and hieroglyphs. Nothing like a good history lesson to understand the present and the...
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Film Festivals: Logos and Types
It’s Monday, but we’re in the mood for film festivals. Sometimes it’s just film festival posters, or logos, but we blame the types genie for this. There are those festival logos we’ve been seeing for...
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On Kinetic Typography and How It Moves Us
Do you know those goodie bags they give to all the nominees at the Oscars? Probably not, unless you were nominated. In which case, well done! But we thought we should follow this tradition and come up...
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This Week in Type #4
This week was… sweet. Yes, that’s the word. With all these articles about chocolate and typography, we just couldn’t keep our hand off the sugary treats. Among other things we took a crash course in...
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Typography Competitions. Part 1
For procrastinators, choosing an ongoing competition is a great opportunity to start and (mainly!) finish a project, because deadlines keep us moving in the right direction. Or a direction, which is...
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Wednesday Inspiration: Stage Musicals Typography
There is this blog, Broadway Typography, that brings together the two passions of its creator: typography and musicals. That’s when it hit us. Actually, stage musicals rely on typography quite a lot...
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This Week in Type #5
Life’s been pretty good this week, like a long preparation for the weekend. It just happens that in our virtual strolls we’ve come across films, books and vintage cards. No worry, they’re all related...
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Typography Competitions. Part 2
We’re back! We have found more competitions that will help you flex your creative muscles and, hopefully, win some cash or kudos. Or both. A capital city and a sticker need your skills, while design...
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Wednesday Inspiration: Animated Features Typography
Who doesn’t like the playful types introducing a Disney classic, a wacky South Park musical, the latest Tim Burton extravaganza or the Pixar array of cuddly characters? As you sit there, filled with...
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This Week in Type #6
It’s our Friday round-up, that time of the week when we look back at the articles and types that caught our eye, stirred our imagination, taught us something new, made us smile or laugh out loud....
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The Types Makers. Part 1
We just love to talk about types, as you’ve probably figured out by now. Today we want to talk about other people who love types, namely those who actively create them. This post should help those...
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Wednesday Inspiration: Sugary Treats and Typography
There is more than mere sugary inspiration in this post. Hopefully, it will open your eyes to the lasting ties between everything sweet and typography. Today we took a stroll through the virtual sweet...
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This Week in Type #7
We’ve got games, inspiration, installations, apps, tutorials, new fonts and some cool typography quotes. Pretty much everything you need for another well-deserved long weekend, right? Let the stroll...
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