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.
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:
Font Hour is back.
Orange Element is really excited to welcome back Font Hour next week! For those of you who are not familiar with OE’s Font Hour, it is a monthly OE office event in which each OE employees vote on a typeface that we’d like to see added to our collection.
Font Hour Freebie Friday
Thanks everyone for the great Font Hour submissions! We had a lot of fun looking through them all. Results will be in on Monday! Until then, enjoy a Font Hour themed Freebie! 1024×768 (standard) 1680×1050 (widescreen)
Why just use Helvetica?
We ran across a typography site today that could have easily occupied our entire evening. Handmadefont.com is an Estonia based design company that specializes in exactly what their name implies: making fonts by hand! They make fonts from grass, wood, wire, water, dust, donuts, petals and the list goes on. You name the material and [...]
KERN On The Go
KERN is an iPhone game perfect for all Graphic Designers! Your goal is to place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures. It’s a typographer’s Tetris…check it out! FORMation’s KERN game for iPhone Andy www.orange-element.com
Design Connects
I was in Dumbo, Brooklyn a few months back and saw an amazing limited edition print by Susanne Cerha of Silo Design. I recently circled back to the website and wanted to share what I found. Silo and JRVisuals have created a public interactive art project. It’s a lot of fun for type geeks and [...]
Free Font | Ecofont
Happy Friday! Get ready to download because this is a great find! Last month we had a font hour and Sarah brought a free font to the table that you should download and default in your emails right now. In an effort to extend the life of print cartridges everywhere, Utrecht based marketing and communications [...]
Typography Is Art
Happy Friday to all. My friend Joey sent me a pretty cool link yesterday that I wanted to share. Check it out. Have some fun, flex your design muscles and learn more about the elements of typography. http://www.typeisart.com
Freebie Friday :: 8.22.2008
Since this edition of Freebie Friday falls on a Font Hour week, we thought it would be appropriate to give away a free font. You might remember Aaron’s pick, Pointy. Well, even though it didn’t win the competition, we were able to pick it up because it is FREE. You can get it by going [...]
Font Hour :: August
Yesterday we sat down for another Orange Element Font Hour. For those of you that want to learn more about how Font Hour works, go HERE. Yesterday’s contenders were as follows: Tarzana Montag (Not Heidi) Filosofia Paragraph Mrs Eaves Pointy Matthia And this, for entertainment purposes: It was interesting that three of the fonts chosen [...]
Cool Free Font
Ok, it’s not Freebie Friday, but I’m still giving something away. I’ve been reading a really great book by Maggie Macnab called Decoding Design and I came across a typeface that was referenced in the book that I really liked, so I looked it up. It is called Culture.ca and the design firm that created [...]
Font Hour Winner :: Wrongway
We just had our most recent version of Font Hour here at OE and I wanted to share the news. Those of you who don’t recall Font Hour, can go HERE to check out a recap of the prior Font Hour. This time, we had some really stiff competition. Among the potential new fonts that [...]
Custom Fonts :: Typecast Press Gets Press
Mary Mashburn, our coaster guru, recently received some stellar press in the New York Times. Mary runs Typecast Press, which is where we recently had our sweet Orange Element coasters letterpressed. You can see them here, next to her work for Woodberry Kitchen, which is actually the subject of the Times article. The article is [...]
Type Inspiration :: Hand Done Print
While looking for some type inspiration this morning i ran across a great calligraphy post from abduzeedo and figured i would share. Another great artist I can never get enough of is Si Scott. At first i questioned his originality since his signature “swirled” technique is repeated throughout the majority of his work but as [...]
Font Hour
Yesterday was a really exciting day for our crew at Orange Element. It was the inaugural monthly Font Hour. Font Hour was an idea of Aaron’s in which we each vote on a Font that we’d like to see added to our collection. Each team member was asked to bring an idea for a font [...]
