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Type Tuesday: Laura Meseguer’s Sisters
Laura Mesegeur’s latest typeface celebrates the creative women of the world. The family of four dubbed Sisters began as a custom lettering project for an art exhibition identity, and grew from there....
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Lettering and Typographic Canvas Prints—a Perfect Pairing
This post is brought to you by our partners at CanvasDiscount.com Typographic and lettering-based prints have a timeless appeal. Whether they feature an inspiring quote or lyrics from your favorite...
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The Weekend Heller: A Name Is Not A Not A Number
He has been “consumed by that for last few days,” Tom Bodkin, chief creative officer of The New York Times, told me in an email early this morning: “It references 19 century newspaper design,” he adds....
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Type Tuesday: Pampatype’s Hypnotic Octothorpe
It started when Jorge Iván’s cousin gifted him a page from the 1978 Manual de Caligrafía, featuring display faces like Astra, Good Vibrations, Piccadilly and, most presciently, Stripes. Letraset...
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The Daily Heller: Public Domain
Introducing a new “occasional” Daily Heller series devoted to type, lettering and imagery in the public domain—found or orphaned graphic material that has no particular provenance, lives homeless on...
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Pandemic Type! 8 of Our Favorite New Typefaces From the Past 2 Months
Sure, we’ve all been locked in and masked up … but that doesn’t mean we should sleep on these eight great new typefaces released in April and May. Every Tuesday we spotlight a new release. Stay tuned...
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The Daily Heller: Demonstrative Typography
Last week, President Trump got a typographic surprise near the White House. Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser took to the streets to send a message to the president, ordering a giant two-block sign reading...
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Type Tuesday: Confitería and Dilemma
Yesterday afternoon, we sat down to write our weekly Type Tuesday post, about Buenos Aires type collective Sudtipos’ Confitería—and as we were doing it, they released their Dilemma typeface. Trying to...
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Why Do All Diplomas Use Blackletter? Charles Nix Breaks it Down
If you’ve ever received a diploma or certificate of achievement, it probably looked something like this (complements of Shutterstock): Graduation season has us wondering about the perpetual bond...
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Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian’s Beautiful Plex Arabic Wins a Pencil
When IBM started brainstorming a new typeface for their brand, they sought to create a workhorse that was steeped in and honored both their values and their long design legacy. The solution? A...
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