List Best Font: February 2014

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Neue Haas Grotesk Font Download

The first weights of Neue Haas Grotesk were designed in 1957-1958 by Max Miedinger for the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei in Switzerland, with art direction by the company’s principal, Eduard Hoffmann.

Neue Haas Grotesk was to be the answer to the British and German grotesques that had become hugely popular thanks to the success of functionalist Swiss typography. The typeface was soon revised and released as Helvetica by Linotype AG.

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For instance, the matrices for Regular and Bold had to be of equal widths, and therefore the Bold was redrawn at a considerably narrower proportion. During the transition from metal to phototypesetting, Helvetica underwent additional modifications.

In the 1980s Neue Helvetica was produced as a rationalized, standardized version.

“Much of the warm personality of Miedinger’s shapes was lost along the way. So rather than trying to rethink Helvetica or improve on current digital versions, this was more of a restoration project: bringing Miedinger’s original Neue Haas Grotesk back to life with as much fidelity to his original shapes and spacing as possible (albeit with the addition of kerning, an expensive luxury in handset type).”

Schwartz completed the family in 2010 for Richard Turley at Bloomberg Businessweek. Its thinnest weight was designed by Berton Hasebe.

Pop Flowers is set of 64 cute graphic flower illustrations derived from Kapitza’s graphic pattern font Pop.

Pop Flowers marks a new direction in Kapitza’s exploration of shapes in nature.

While their projects such as Blossomy and We Love Nature Leaves are based on photographs of plants and flowers, Pop Flowers is constructed of graphic shapes. In moving away from ‘realistic’ forms, Pop Flowers creates a reality of its own that evokes a magical atmosphere.

Hasan Alquds Unicode is an Arabic display typeface. It is useful for titles and graphic projects where a contemporary, streamlined look is desired. The font is based on the simple lines of Kufi calligraphy, and the uniform slope of its strokes gives it a structured, geometric feel.

It supported all scripts that used Arabic glyphs compatible with Unicode 4.2. Hasan Alquds is the first released typeface of collaboration between Hasan Abu Afash and Mamoun Sakkal.

Pompeijana is part of Linotype’s Type Before Gutenberg series. Adrian Frutiger designed Pompeijana in 1992 modeling it on the “scriptura actuari” (scriptura=writing; actuari=fast) used by the Romans for handwriting and stone and bronze inscriptions since the first century BC; this style of lettering is also seen on inscriptions six centuries later.

These early letters were made quickly with a brush held at a steep angle, producing characters with horizontal strokes that are wider than the vertical strokes.

Pompeijana is ideal for books as titles and initial capitals.

More sophisticated job work, for instance, stationery and wedding invitations could easily use Pompeijana as well.

Simple - The Bilingual Font.

The process of Simple began with the usual alphabets followed by a series of icons and soon it was an avalanche of Chinese characters. The pool of proposed Chinese characters were loosely determined by the needs of a lunar calender.

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After months of extensive typesetting, Simple is also realized to be well-catered for use in graphical information design in games and tournaments, logotypes, advertisements and headlines.

An awe inspiring nightmarish font for use wherever you need to add unease or fear to your artwork. The main focus and usage of AweX are headlines, posters for event graphics and music/media/game packaging.

AweX was revised 2012 and now hold a full character set of basic english/latin letters and west european diacritics!

A.M. Cassandre’s original and trend setting stressed sanserif which mixes capital and lowercase forms. Designed in 1937 with Charles Peignot for Deberny & Peignot, this face has almost become a symbol for France and things French.

Parkitecture JNL is the latest font to embrace the angles and lines of the Art Deco era.

Bold and solid in look and feel, it gives nostalgic headlines a “solid” retro appearance.

Archive Steeler Font Download

Engraved display typeface.

A fresh new decorative display face bubbling with life & spontaneity, Jabberwub belongs to a rare genus of creature fonts that time forgotócasual animated. A fun & bouncy eye-catcher that crosses into the land of the zany, dancing a whacky line between discord & rhyme, Jabberwub packs tons of fun into a state-of-the-art OpenType font loaded with 270 extra glyphs, including stylistic alternates, discretionary ligatures, word ligatures and capitalized ligatures, allowing creative typographers to achieve a custom hand-lettered look without all the mess & spilt glue of a manual paste-up job.

Just like using rub-down type but it never cracks or splits, and it never runs out. The moment you start using Jabberwub you'll be laffing! More…

It takes an outline with no problem-o, and you can squish & squoosh it as the occasion takes your fancy. Optimal results are achieved by hand setting each individual glyph. Available in OpenType only.

This family was inspired by the set of fonts used in Paris by Ponce Rosset, aka “Faucheur” to print the account of the second voyage to Canada by Jacques Cartier, first edition, in 1545. It is a Garalde set, the punchcutter is unknown, certainly it was not Garamond himself.

In our two styles (normal and italic), fontfaces, kernings and spaces are scrupulously the same as in the original. This Pro font covers Western, Eastern and Central European languages (including Celtic) Baltic and Turkish, with standard and long-s ligatures in each of the two styles.

Goudy Handtooled Font Download

Forty-six leaf designs from the Leaf Assortment font were three-dimensionally rotated to various viewing angles other than perpendicular (which is how they are viewed in the Leaf Assortment). Holding the modifier keys, Shift, Option, Shift + Option, and typing the same character will access different views of the same leaf.

Font contains 180 characters

Named after the collaboration of Frank Sheeran, Ian Chai and Glenn Chappell that produced the FIGlet application, FIG is set of three postscript typefaces in the spirit of early email and ASCII art explorations.

Written in 1991 using the programming language C, the FIGlet application allows users to create fonts with basic ASCII characters. The FIG types capture the simplicity of the FIGlets with a family that includes a sans, a serif and a script.

Wedding Doodles Too is the follow-up font to the popular Wedding Doodles.

This font gives you all you need to make your own invitations, announcements, RSVP cards, save your date cards and thank you notes.

Font includes 3 sets of hand-lettered words… save our date, thank you and RSVP. Just add a wedding cake, flowers, top hat, wedding bell, heart or flower and you are done.

Check out Wedding Doodles, you may need both.

Add some personality to scrapbooks, greeting cards, invitations, announcements, signs, menus, restaurant themes, and more.

The thick, brush-stroked lines of Menu Item lend unique character to the letters of this cool font.

Arnprior is an modular exploration of ornament in lieu of strokes. Wavy crossbars imbue your works with catchy rhythmic hooks.

I was working on an unrelated job with curls and wondered how I could apply them to a font. Well, here it is, all pair-kerned. A little silly but fun.

Bravo-AR is based upon a 16-pt type designed by E. A. Neukomm and released in 1945 by the Haas foundry of Münchenstein, Switzerland. in 1948.

The Digelectric Font Family is a hybrid between an LCD typestyle and electricity or lightning. It was created during my digital phase, but was more of a mutation of it towards odd-type again. The family comes with both Regular and Oblique versions, and carries a slick comic display feel to it.

Put some shock into your designs, jolt your audience, get Digelectric today!

There’s something satisfying about tweaking to perfection a typeface based on the particular style of lettering applied to a particular kind of paper by a particular human hand.

One day, in pursuit of this curious sense of satisfaction, I sat down with a porous pad of lined note paper and printed out the alphabet with a ballpoint pen.

I found particularly interesting the bulbous ends of the strokes where the ink soaked in. More…

Named it Cedar Street, after a favorite address of mine.

LD Gypsy Font Download

LD Gypsy is excellent for chic scrapbook pages or layouts. Use this digital font to add flair and creativity to your titles or captions.

Cordin is a rough handdrawn face useful for scrapbooking and other craft-based ideas.

There is a free version available.

Here’s another offering based on the work of Alf Becker, long-time contributor to Signs of the Times magazine. This only comes from the 1940s, and is a light and bouncy single-stroke face that’s sure to pep up any project it graces.

This font contains the complete Latin language character set (Unicode 1252) plus support for Central European (Unicode 1250) languages as well.

NK Fracht Square Font Download

NK_Fracht Square (meaning Cargo or Freight) is a stylized version of Neue Konstrukteur Square.

It is more suited for headline and display purposes, but can also be used quite successfully for short blocks for running text and captions.

Status is a hybrid of a super fat alphabet and ultra light figures and other special glyphs.

Kipp Clean Font Download

Elegance SF Font Download

Nirvanium NB Font Download

If John Baskerville had been born in Seattle in the 1960s his type would have looked like Nirvanium: a wide, extended body with chunky Dr. Martin serifs, an assertive inelegance and a sense of rebelliousness.

It’s a display face, too big, too chunky and too rambunctious for text, but always friendly.

Twenty-six classic paisley designs to spiff up any project you might be working on

Cyberboys Font Download

36 high quality illustrations portraying the first generation of kids growing up immersed in digital technologies.

LD Little Buggy Font Download

LD Little Buggy is an enjoyable, outlined font that is perfect in adorning invitations, digital projects or just adding some flavor to a page.

Westway Font Download

Slaving away at the 9-to-5 is no way to live! Not when your head is filled with all kinds of creative ideas, gossip and new finds to share with your devoted readers! Let 'em know you don't give a rip about the bossman invading YOUR time to update that blog .

. . You Go Office Blogger! Find your voice with Office Blogger, loaded with tons of automatic ligatures and alternate letters in dynamic OpenType!

Morris Fuller Benton’s 1917 typeface named Invitation provided the pattern for this elegant and endearing face. Classic Engravers Roman style caps are exquisitely balanced with a sinewy lowercase, adding warmth and charm.

All versions of this font include the Unicode 1250 Central European character set in addition to the standard Unicode 1252 Latin set.

Here’s The Thing -- it can be loosened, twisted, tied, tripped over, wagged, bitten, forked, stuck out or kept in your cheek.

You need your tongue to talk, taste, chew, swallow and sing.

You can keep a civil tongue in your head or you can give someone the rough side of your tongue...

and it'll only cost you $29!

All has been said, unless words change their meanings and meanings their words.

From Okaycat is the Azsion font, hand-lettered with loving hand in a distinctive style. This font is artistically textured with great detail, yet highly legible with a soft pleasant look.

Azsion matches well with Okaycat font, Azsitra.

Illustrated pen & ink, artistic typography for that hand drawing look. Azsion is extended, containing West European diacritics & ligatures, making it suitable for multilingual environments & publications.

An unreleased typeface called "Aragón", designed by Enric Crous-Vidal, provided the inspiration for this decidedly retro face.

It’s quite useful for distinctive and commanding headlines.

Both versions of the font include 1252 Latin, 1250 CE (with localization for Romanian and Moldovan).

Imperium is the official font of the Imperium Romanum, the Roman Empire.

Only since my youngest son decided to learn Latin do I know that the Romans had another font for everyday use, Scriptura Vulgaris an italic script.

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Albrecht Dürer was one of the first ones (1525) to reconstruct the roman capitals, Frederic Goudy did a fantasic job as well as lots of others (most of the fonts are called Trajan).

I could not trace the lettering directly, so I had to rely on my photographs. In order to make it usable for today, I added small caps, numerals and all the diacritical marks -- even Yen and Euro signs.

I designed a complete set without changing the original appearance.

To top things off, I added a relief capital letters alphabet for use as initials. It has got the same spacing as the smallcaps alphabet, so you can produce a two-tone effect by overlaying the relief over the normal capitals.

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