MetaFilter posts tagged with typefaces

60 Brilliant Typefaces (and 40 free ones)

criticalbill — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:05:11 -0800

60 Brilliant Typefaces (for corporate design) plus 40 free ones. From Smashing Magazine (prev), which last year presented 80 Beautiful Typefaces for Professional Design Well I like them

An open letter to John Warnock

DrJohnEvans — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:11:33 -0800

An open letter to John Warnock. "Please consider releasing eight to twelve core fonts into the public domain. The amount of revenue lost from a small core set of fonts surely can’t have a significant impact on Adobe’s bottom line."

Type, handwriting, and lettering

persona non grata — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:50:25 -0800

Type, handwriting, and lettering

Everyone loves/hates the Olympics!

luriete — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:09:58 -0800

Free the Olympukes. Fontshop, the 500-lb gorilla of type foundries, has released Jonathan Barnbrook's Olympukes dingbat font - which does a good job of reconciling the love/hate relationship many of us have with this most constructed of all sports events - for free. Barnbrook is the politically savage designer behind the Virus typefoundry, and is probably most well-known for collaborations with Damien Hirst and the typefaces Exocet and Mason (which was originally called Manson – and "intended to speak of the uncomfortable associations between elegance and violence" – but was renamed Mason in a fit of ~~pique~~ marketing), which are sold through the fine folks at Emigre.

Identifont -- Identify that elusive font!

chrismear — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:54:14 -0800

Identifont is an amazing, free, font identification tool. Ever seen some nice text in print or on the web, wanted to use it yourself, but couldn't work out what font they used? By answering a series of simple questions (Does the 'Q' tail cross the circle? What shape is the 'g'?), all presented with handy example pictures, Identifont can quickly identify the name of the font you're looking for.

Typophile

ColdChef — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 22:24:48 -0800

Typophile : Indulge your inner Font Nerd. (check out the "Found Type Gallery")