Carolyn Sewell

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Check out the lovely hand-drawn lettering from designer Carolyn Sewell, Carolyn has a number of wonderful side projects where she expresses her passion for lettering and design, a nice example being Postcards to my parents, a collection of daily postcards designed and sent to her folks. Check out…

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Greta Sans

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A well considered and full family from Typotheque foundry. The video above sums Greta up, a versatile and stylish typeface, just waiting to be used. An in depth overview over at Typotheque blog

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Type Chess Set

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A wonderfully minimal typographic chess set conceived by Hat-Trick Design based in London.A typographic chess set based on chess notation. The forms are based on typeface Champion (Lightweight) by Hoefler Frere Jones.  

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Typebutter

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Typebutter comes with preset options for a few typefaces, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Times and Georgia but also gives you the option to Roll your own, setting custom kerning for any pairing set of characters. TypeButter allows you to set optical kerning for any font on your website. If you’re l…

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Typecast announce new features

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The new changes and updates to Typecast are generally rolled out incremently, the latest offerings improving the colour picker tool, now with support for Alpha transparency. Revisions is another new major feature with support for rolling back to previous versions. Much like the new features on OSX…

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Alegreya ht Pro

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Alegreya ht Pro is a great new typeface from Juan Pablo del Peral, I immediately loved the italic version of the typeface, so many wonderful characters and small details. The lowercase ‘k’ ‘g’ and ‘p’ for example show real calligraphic elements. Alegreya is a typeface originally intended for literature.…

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Stefan Sagmeister, The Happy Show

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A fascinating project by Stefan Sagmeister, combining research from a collection of social data from psychologists, anthropologists and several prominent historians he attempted to discover how and what makes someone happy and what can trigger happiness. He combined research data with typography…

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Chrono

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Everything that comes out of Process Type Foundry lately has been gold, each of their typefaces are stunning, beautiful and practical. The large range or weights for both Roman and Italics makes this a very usable typeface.Chrono is a refined oval sans serif of 20th century origins and 21st century…

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Bob Dylan - A hand Lettering Experience

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Some amazing hand drawn lettering by Leandro Senna. I love how the use of the different tips and thickness of the markers make a huge impact on the shape and outcome of the lettering. Inspired by Bob Dylan´s Subterranean Homesick Blues video, where he flips cards with the lyrics as the song plays, …

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Hell Yes

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Branding and publicity materials for a series of performance art events curated by Hell Yes at PSL (Project Space Leeds). Materials included: a fold-out brochure/poster; exhibition signage (vinyl lettering); and website. Qubik Portfolio

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