I wanted to share a font this week that answered a fontish issue, that stems from the recent trend of free web fonts. Free webfonts have recently been made especially popular by Google web fonts but also by others such as Font Squirrel. Some of these are really great fonts, Source Sans by Adobe, for example, […]
Tag: serif
Saint Octave – Cheese and Charcuterie
“Saint Octave is a cheese and charcuterie delicatessen in Brussels. Octave, the owner, is a lover of cheese and decided to open up his own shop so he could bring good food to the every day consumer. He not only sells cheese but he also explains and makes people understand what is behind the products […]
The Doves Type
The tale of Doves type is one of passion and obsession from two men; Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, a 20th-century bookbinder and Robert Green, a 21st-century designer. Cobden-Sanderson was striving to produce the perfect book, perfect in every way. He partnered with Emery Walker to start a private press called Doves Press based in Hammersmith London (a part of […]
Abril Titling
I’m going to start linking the Font of the Week with logos that have been featured during the previous 7 days. I guess it won’t always work, but lets have a go. Last week I featured FF Mark after it’s use on the Mastercard rebrand. This week, appearing in the Hrivnak is the excellent Abril. Designed […]
Legs For Days by Futura
A quirky name for this Mexican clothing boutique, the design is sophisticated enough to appeal to ladies with regular legs too. The colour palette is sensational. Interestingly the name appears in 3 formats, a solid geometric sans-serif, a contrasting weight serif on the packaging and a handwritten version. Of the 3 I’d drop the serif, […]
