The faces behind the fonts - Bo Berndal

I can spend every minute doing the thing I like most of all; my hobby is creating typefaces. I’m a little jealous of those designers that seem to go on and on into their old age creating excellent typefaces. ;-)
In other words, I hope I’ll be doing the same, but I have already had a very good life …so far!

Read the whole interview with Bo here: new.myfonts.com

5 Great New Free Fonts

  

Tondu

A versatile display font that combines classic proportions with modern styling. The precise letter fit makes it perfect for use across signage, book jackets, packaging, posters and t-shirts. Details include an extended European character set, manually edited kerning and Euro symbol.

You can find it here: myfonts.com

Fanwood

Based on work of a famous Czech-American type designer of yesteryear. The package includes roman and italic. The current version is 1.1, which includes a few improvements. It also introduces Fanwood Text roman and italic, which are the same as Fanwood but slightly darker and reduces in contrast; I tailored it to increase readability on my Amazon Kindle 3 e-book reader.

Download it here: www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com

 

Fabrica

Fabrica is a deceptively simple sans serif typeface optimized for screen display on handheld devices. With its optimal quality and legibility, Fabrica proves to be highly efficient for small screens. Its details are drawn from the more systematic constructed Neo-Grotesques, giving it a neutral tone of voice. Above all, Fabrica's beauty is found in its functionality.
Check it here: practicefoundry.com 

Weston

The main purpose is to provide designers with font, suitable for modification in logos and headlines. Combined wisely, Weston will spice up your design adding the “not-your-usual-font-choice” effect. Inspired by the evergreen Grover & Rockwell, this font would love to find his place in your library.

More here: fontfabric.com

Matilde

Matilde is friendly thin typeface with extra tall capitals, elegant look combined with decorative elements. This typeface will work well for headings, short paragraphs, magazines, children’s books, posters, logos and any type of graphic design.

You can find it here: www.typedepot.com

The Big Book of Font Combinations

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography. You can see more here: bonfx.com

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.

The Big Book of Font Combinations is an expansive collection of carefully crafted typeface pair samples. The font pairings in BBOFC will inspire you and give you back time you need for your design projects. Use the font combination examples straight out of the BBOFC in your next project, or use them as a springboard for your own creativity. However you use the BBOFC, it’s bound to inspire and is a trustworthy companion to consult for all kinds of design projects and general study of typography.

Meeting Natalia Vasilyeva

This month we venture into a region few of our readers will ever visit — Siberia. Our interviewee is one of the most prolific designers of pragmatic text fonts and accomplished calligraphic typefaces for Para Type, Russia’s principal typefoundry. 

Interview with Natalia Vasilyeva at: myfonts.com

Apolonia - new polish type

"Apolonia" by dr. Tomasz Welna is type designed especially for polish language, but it also improves the appearance and legibility of the texts in other languages. It's a result of author's doctoral dissertation in the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.

"Apolonia" is free for all private users. Check out more here: www.polskalitera.pl

New Rising Stars on MyFonts.com

Ever since webfonts began influencing the look and feel of hundreds, and then thousands of websites, Exljbris Museo Sans has been all over the place. This new variety is likely to become as successful as its older siblings. Museo Sans Rounded is a softened version of the Museo family’s best-selling variant, Museo Sans. While the lighter versions are just that — a sans with rounded corners — there are some interesting modifications in the heavier weights.

Check out more at: myfonts.com

14 cool free fonts

Most of the fonts shared in this post shouldn’t be used for blocks of text, 

but they can be interesting for titles.

Found on: www.designer-daily.com

40+ Beautiful and Fresh Free Fonts for Download

Find out more: designmodo.com

Woody Allen favourite type

"Ed Benguiat had a breakfast at the same New Jersey diner every morning. Among the other that would dine there was Woody Allen. On one occasion, referring to Benguiat as a "printer," Allen asked him what a good typeface was. Benguiat had an affinity for Windsor and suggested it to him that morning. He's used it in every film since"

Article source: kitblog.com and you can buy than font at myfonts.com 

Interview with Stefan Hattenbach

 

“do what you like as good as ever possible and trust that the audience will find a way to appreciate your work as it is.”

Read more at:  myfonts.com

Maven Pro - FREE Sans Serif font!

Maven Pro is a FREE sans-serif typeface with unique curvature and flowing rhythm.

This sans-serif typeface was designed in late 2010 by designer Joe Prince, courtesy of Vissol Ltd. It was part of a small, on-going project that quickly led into something great. Maven Pro's unique curvature and modern forms make it very distinguishable and unique when in context. It blends styles of many great typefaces and is suitable for any design medium. The best part about Maven Pro... it's 100% FREE!
You can downloaded and read more about it here: www.vissol.co.uk 
 

Rising stars of February on MyFonts

I've just received a newsletter from MyFonts.com with some nice looking types. 
All looking like a rising stars but Aviano is looking really good.
Check it out: new.myfonts.com

30 Fonts that every designer must/should know/own

Very nice article about best fonts/typefaces that every designer should know.

Sorted by alphabetical order. There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. 

A brief description of what each font is best suited for is provided however are not limited to this.

You can find whole article here: justcreativedesign. 
After reading please leave a comment and let me know which one is your favourite.

Great free font!

Reklame Script is a brush typefamily consisting of four weights. 

It was designed by Hannes von Döhren in 2010.
Also more fonts on:

www.myfonts.com/reklame-script

20 New High Quality Free Fonts

New free fonts for your design.
www.smashingmagazine.com/20free-fonts