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‘F is for The Flash’ Font Friday

A is for Captain America

Alphabet created by Simon Koay, from SimonKoay.com: Superbet ‘Superbet’ is a typographic exploration of alphabet design by reimagining each letter of the alphabet as everyone’s favourite superheroes and supervillains. Each letter has been created with inspiration from characters who share that same initial in their name.These would be great for kids, or as CNet put it, “perfect for any bedroom wall or […]

Fake Font Friday 1

"Typeface Designed for Doctors" chart showing an unreadable squiggle for each letter of the alphabet

Just a quick visual so you know why their handwriting looks like that: Not to be confused with my posts Fake Font 2, Fake Font 3 or Fake Font 4. Link to larger size. Created by Orion Champadiyil (web, Twitter).

‘fonts dot info’ Font Friday

In my LinkedIn profile, I put ‘Typography Evangelist’; this type stuff is awesome! FDI is an independent German type foundry. To quote FDI’s website: We [offer] a library of unique, contemporary typefaces designed by talented European type designers for use in print and digital publishing. FDI Type was founded in 2004. The name comes from the […]

Fleuron Font Friday

A fleuron, or flower, is a decorative typographic character. The category of fleuron includes some characters that are not floral in design. Also known as a printer’s flower or floret. Flowers are in a category of characters known as ornaments or type ornaments. Scroll down or jump to here for a short essay on fleurons.   […]

Faëry Font Friday

Ok, so this is a total cheat. Today’s Font Friday is “font” as in “fountain”: in this case, a font created and guarded by faeries. I came across the poem when I was looking for font-related words that start with “f,” and I thought it was interesting.

This kid made a steel rose prom corsage for his date

OK it’s prom season and looking back who among us wouldn’t have preferred a handmade steel rose corsage? This kid (and his mom! extra adorable!) made one for his prom date: I made a steel-rose corsage for my prom date! by ThomasBenn via iPhone

Fenotype Foundry Font Friday

Fenotype Font Company is the type foundry of Finland-based type designer Emil Bertell. Bertell started Fenotype in 2012 and has designed hundreds of typefaces since then. You can see all his fonts at http://www.fenotype.com/font/fontpage.htm and download the free ones there. Below is a short article from MyFonts, where Bertell’s commercial typefaces are available. His typefaces there are […]

Fear Font Friday 1

Puttin’ the frighteners on ya! Here are seven classic posters—lots more at fontmeme.com. Not to be confused with my post Fear Font Friday 2. 28 Days Later Font 28 Days Later font here refers to the font used in the poster title for the movie 28 Days Later, which is a horror zombie movie that […]

Finance Font Friday

Wells Fargo logo

Financial institutions have traditionally wanted to create a feeling of stability and trust, but more recently some consumer banks have opted for a feeling of vibrancy and energy. Either way, banks et al. therefore spend a great deal of time and money on their branding: cool, dark colors and serif fonts for the traditional logos, […]

Fresh Font Friday from Font Meme

Madelyn typeface: script "M" with pink heart in back

A sampling of new and fresh fonts from Font Meme, an awesome online resource for free fonts. There are many, many more—four pages’ worth!—at https://fontmeme.com/font-finder/. Madelyn – Handwritten Script Font by Fontfabric

Font Technologies Font Friday

Parametric fonts: Diagram of capital "A"

This article, from SmashingMagazine.com, explicates the concept of parametric fonts. The concept has been around for 40+ years but it has novel applications in web type design. How Font Technologies Will Improve the Web PARAMETRIC FONTS (original article) Words are the primary component of content for the web. However, until a short while ago, all […]

Freaky, Frightening, Fantastic Font Friday

"The Vault of Horror" comic book cover

A fun look at “scary” typography in the pop-culture occult over the last 125 years or so: Ouija boards, comic books, TV shows, and movies. Original article is here.

Font-Pairs Font Friday

Mixfont logo

Here are five font generator sites with added special sauce: pairings of fonts. (Not to be confused with my earlier bog post Four or Five Fonts Friday, which suggested techniques for  creating harmonious larger font groupings.)  ByPeople has created 50 Google Font pairings. Each pair is shown in a layout—truly a labor of love. You can go to […]

14,000+ color names! Just type in a hex code

Smashing Magazine‘s Smashing Newsletter Issue #190 has this gem: more than 14,000 color names, accessible by entering a 6-digit hex code. Some examples below. Click on “quick! Find one of 14’000 color names!” to get the HTML, CSS, and JS code (see below). What comes to your mind when you hear terms like “Bright Nori”, […]

Pantone announces new purple shade in honor of Prince

In collaboration with the singer’s estate, the company announced the release of a new purple hue, called Love Symbol #2, in honor of his signature color. The new hue has been dubbed Love Symbol #2, after the singer’s logo and custom-made Yamaha purple piano. Throughout Prince’s career, he became indelibly associated with the color, from […]

FontStruct ‘Arabic Pixel’ Font Friday

Arabic Pixel Font

Via online font-building tool FontStruct comes this ingenious pixelcraft from game designer Alex Clay, who is localizing video games in Arabic. (See my post Create-a-Font Friday for a list of paid and free font creation software.) Previously, a lot of effort has gone into hacking code to get Arabic text, especially punctuation and positioning, to appear […]

Fontfabric Font Friday

Muller Narrow type sample

Fontfabric.com is a fantastic resource for loads of imaginative, classic-ish (and free!) fonts. I say classic-ISH because the kerning of many of the stalwarts of type design—the Garamonds, Akzidenz Grotesks, and Avenirs—is correct and appropriate only in paid versions. Paid providers also have the most trendy, cutting-edge fonts. Here are several recent Fontfabric examples, but there are […]

Feline Fabric Font Friday

This charming fabric of acrobatic kitties was created by designer Elena Naylor and is available by the yard at Spoonflower, a great print-on-demand fabric company. Spoonflower has a wide range of fabrics available, from chiffon to heavy cotton twill to lycra (full list below). I reference them in my post How to Make a Tea Cozy […]

Pastries Like You’ve Never Seen Before by Dinara Kasko

Dinara Kaska red pastry

From Design Milk‘s weekly blog. Design Milk showcases architecture, art, home, interiors, and more. 06.30.17  Posted by Pinch Food Design Ukraine pastry chef Dinara Kasko breaks the mold with her artistic approach to baking cakes. Using 3D printing technology she not only creates never before seen cake forms, but she then delights you with pastry surprises when […]

Found Font Friday – original

Doves type letter "e"

With regard to the surreptitious disposal and triumphant recovery of the Doves Type from London’s Thames River (from an article in typespec magazine): The Doves Type® revival . Not to be confused with my post Font Friday 2, about fonts created from lettering and signs found in the great outdoors. Raised from the dead: The Doves Type […]

Forgotten Font Friday

Dwiggins hand-drawing letters

A lovely type-related article from Atlas Obscura, chroniclers of the strange and wonderful. The Lost Typefaces of W.A. Dwiggins The pioneering designer created dozens of fonts, only a few of which are still around today. By CARA GIAIMO for Atlas Obscura

Free Tree Font Friday

The phrase "about trees" in the Tree font

From Atlas Obscura. Read the Tree Leaves, With an Artist’s Invented Tree Font The plants are speaking. Time to read what they have to say. The phrase “about trees,” shown in the font Trees

Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces

by Christopher Jobson from colossal.com Wikipedia Kintsugi (or kintsukuroi) is a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics with a special lacquer mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and to visibly incorporate the repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. The […]

(Batman) Forever Font Friday

"Batman Forever" font cookie cutters Y-Z

From 3D print vendor JB Cookie Cutters, cookie cutters in the shapes of the “Batman Forever” font! Really! You can use these with cookie dough, with fondant to decorate the cake of a lucky child (or adult), or with any rolled material. The “Q” is backwards, but nobody’s perfect.

Japanese Artist Creates Fun Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 5 Years

From boredpanda.com Since 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating creative and playful miniature dioramas. Not only has he not shown any sign of stopping since we last wrote about him, but he seems to be getting better and better Tanaka has been collecting the creative images into an everyday calendar that you can follow on Facebook or […]

Film Font Friday, Wes Anderson Edition

See also Film Fonts Friday 1; (Bond) Film Fonts Friday; Font Film Font Friday; and (Oscar) Film Font Friday. Sara Enríquez  from Madrid, Spain created these whimsical typographic illustrations as an homage to film director Wes Anderson. See if you can figure out which film each letter goes with, then scroll down to check your […]

Funny Font Friday 1

Ratatouille movie poster

Here are five movies (of many) from fontmeme.com to make you giggle, laugh, or perhaps snort. See also my post Funny Font Friday 2, a silly alphabet book ca. 1850.  Parks and Recreation Font Parks and Recreation is an American television sitcom starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, mid-level bureaucrat in the parks […]

Fantasy Font Friday

Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show poster

Escape to a world that never was in these movies and TV shows. A better world? A worse one? You decide. Via fontmeme.com. Here are six but there are many more. Spirited Away Font Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The […]

Family Font Friday

Fun fonts from family films! Via fontmeme.com. Here are five titles but there are many more. Marley & Me Font Marley & Me font here refers to the font used in the poster of Marley & Me, which is a 2008 American comedy drama movie about the adorable but naughty and neurotic dog, Marley, from […]

Fightin’ Font Friday 2

The Bourne Identity poster

Action fonts! Movie posters with all the fightin’ fonts you need, from fontmeme.com. Here are five but there are many more. See also my post Fightin’ Font Friday 1, a typeface for model combat aircraft. Spectre (Film) Font Spectre is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It was directed by Sam Mendes […]

Far, Far Away Font Friday

"Far, Far Away" text from 1977 poster

From Yves Peters at fontshop.com on December 14, 2015 (revised December 20, 2015): An exhaustive article on the various versions of the fonts for the “iconic opening [text] crawl” and posters for each Star Wars movie! To say a whole lot of people are getting a whole lot of excited about Star Wars: The Force […]

Le Choléra: Le Petit Journal, December 1, 1912

Cover of French newspaper "Le Petit Journal" with illustration of the figure of Death cutting down marching troops

One hundred and three years ago today, Le Petit Journal, a French newspaper, featured an illustration of cholera, which was decimating the troops of World War I: Death cuts through the marching men with a scythe. Notably, the men wear the red fez, identifying them as Tirailleurs Sénégalais. (Tirailleur translates variously as “skirmisher,” “rifleman,” or […]

92-Year-Old Grandmother Creates Amazingly Complex Temari Balls

By Noel Kat from mymodernmet: These stunning embroidered balls called “temari” were made by the prodigiously nimble fingers of a 92-year-old grandmother in Japan. Although she only learned this elaborate skill in her sixties, she has since created nearly 500 unique designs that have been photographed by her granddaughter NanaAkua. Impressive does not even begin […]

‘Forgetting the Point of a Website’ Font Friday

Block of blurry, unreadable type

An excellent rant from a developer who’s sick of designers using “cool” but unreadable web fonts. Written in 2012, so many advances have been made since then towards getting cool type to be readable (e.g. Google Fonts), but the point stands. Web font rant, forgetting the point of a website This is just a rant […]

Monaco’s Pantone Cafe is a Beautiful Place to Eat

Red Cup Blue Tray

From mentalfloss: Image credit: Pantone Cafe Pantone—the corporation behind the popular color-matching system developed by Lawrence Herbert in 1963—now has a cafe that blends pastries with their trademark aesthetic. Arguably one of the most photogenic cafes in the world, the restaurant invites customers to “taste the colors.” It’s hard not to feel like you’re eating […]

A Selfie on the Edge of Space

Selfie on the edge of space

By Glen Tickle from Laughing Squid:  A recent episode of the series Seeker Stories explains how photographer Christopher Michel was able to take a selfie at the age of space. While on assignment, Michel was given the opportunity to fly in a Lockheed U-2 spy plane that provided him some impressive views of the Earth.

Multinational Typeface, Letters Based on National Flags

Multinational flags type

From ad agency GSK Unit @Grey Singapore. Much has been written and said about the needs of our global economy. In fact: heated debates have and are still taking place about the dichotomy of global vs. local. Here’s our take on it all: when you set up a new hub to work with the rest […]

Four or Five Fonts Friday

Cafe menu with five fonts

Combining fonts is an art rather than a science, but there are basics that will help you make decisions. Typography.com has some ideas. (Not to be confused with my blog post Font-Pairs Font Friday, which suggests five websites for AI-generated two-font pairings.) Four Techniques for Combining Fonts Building a palette is an intuitive process, and […]

Folies Facade Font Friday

Facade of the Folies Bergere before renovation

The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France. Established in 1869, the house was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s through the 1920s. The building was updated in the 1920s with a strong Art Deco font and sculptural inset. The type on top of the building […]

Fuller Folies Font Friday

Poster for Loie Fuller at the Folies Bergere

The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France. Established in 1869, the house was at the height of its fame and popularity from the 1890s’ Belle Époque through the 1920s’ Années folles. (See my post about the Folies facade here.) Loie (Loïe) Fuller was an American modern dancer and choreographer who […]

Fingers, Facial Hair, and Phalluses Font Friday

Vermeer 'Girl with the Pearl Earring' - "D"

Art History Masterpieces Transformed Into Surreal Typefaces By Alison Nastasi from Flavorwire Typography and art nerds, this one’s for you. Israeli designer Oded Ezer (who we first spotted on Co.Design) enjoys playing with type to create unusual fonts — and he’s designed some humorous typefaces inspired by the annals of art history. Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, […]

Foreign Font Friday 1

Devanagarish font

These foreign-look fonts explore the different shapes and rhythms of non-roman type, in a roman font. All are available here.

Fruitcake Font Friday

Oxfam 2011 Holiday Campaign by Jessica Hische For the 2011 holiday season, Oxfam International enlisted the beautiful lettering and illustration work of Jessica Hische. Besides all of the excellent typography and witty messaging, these ads encourage donations for a wonderful cause. Oxfam consists of multiple international groups that partner and campaign for resolving poverty and […]

Flip-Free Font Friday

Christian Boer designs typeface for readers with dyslexia “When they’re reading, people with dyslexia often unconsciously switch, rotate and mirror letters in their minds,” said Boer, who is dyslexic himself. This “anti-flip” typeface is designed to reduce that possibility. Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: a typeface created specifically for dyslexic people by Dutch designer Christian Boer […]

Fantastic Four Font Friday

From fontmeme.com: “Fantastic Four font” here refers to the font used in the poster title of Fantastic Four, which is an American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics of the same name. The film was directed by Tim Story and released in 2005. The font used in the title for the theatrical release poster […]

Fungus Font Friday

Great shimeji mushrooms font from handmadefont: Mystical mushrooms create interesting letter figures, bringing an original atmosphere to an illustration. Super food can create super designs, give it a chance. Mushroom font is made of high-resolution photos and contains letters, symbols and numbers. Every letter has a transparent background ready for placement in your design. Mushrooms […]

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