Linotype: The Film
On February 3rd a movie will premiere that will explore the history and impact of a near extinct creation that many people today don’t normally give thought to, and no, I’m not talking about dinosaurs, I’m talking about Linotype.
For Your Friday: “Kern Type, the kerning game”
This has been making the rounds among various design-focused individuals and sites lately, and with good reason: it’s brilliantly executed and a ton of fun.
Photo-Lettering Catalog by House Industries
We are all really excited to have recently received our Photo-Lettering catalogs from House Industries.
Lost Type
Over the past couple of months, we have been really excited about Lost Type, a new “Pay-What-You-Want” type foundry that creates and offers a host of cool, vintage-inspired typefaces for download. Many different designers have contributed their designs and the site is already growing to be an extremely valuable resource full of inspiration and quality [...]
Droid Fonts
Yesterday, a few of us at the office had the pleasure of attending Steve Matteon’s HOW webinar on custom fonts. Steve and Ascender Corp. have a great niche in the type world—mobile font development.
Alright Sans FTW
This week’s Font Hour (a monthly meeting where Orange Element shares and votes on our favorite typefaces to purchase) included the type families: Maple Ideal Sans Anomoly CA Zaracusa Anchor Meta Serif and Alright Sans. The winning typeface by a slim margin was
Font Hour Winning Typeface
We recently had an exciting meeting of an OE favorite – Font Hour! There were quite a few fonts this time around, and choosing just one was difficult. After a round of voting, the big winner is:
A Gusto for Soccer
We’ve enjoyed a month of World Cup action. As the games close, we’d like to pay a little attention to the type found throughout the event. Yomar Augusto designed Unity for Adidas.
