In this collection, you’ll find some of the best free and high-quality sans serif fonts for clean and professional designs that you can download on the web. Rex Free Font Rex is a font family with three weights – light, bold and bold inline – that was designed to create unique titles on the fly. … Continue reading
Suggestion: Idlewind with Knockout Idlewind with Claimcheck A distinctive typeface that’s at home everywhere it goes. For the longest time, we’ve been reaching for a typeface that wasn’t there. We knew it was something spare and tranquil, its letterforms reaching ambitiously outward, and we could hear it speaking in hushed but captivating tones. We imagined … Continue reading
Let’s make one thing clear. A readers does not make an impression on print or digital magazine, web or newspaper design by looking at the construction of the page, photography or any other element that are part of design. Readers will make a judgment based on overall impression – they are not designers or editors, … Continue reading
Type Specimen is the first font viewer for iPad, revolutionizing the way digital fonts are presented today. It’s an ideal tool for people who need to select fonts for projects – be it magazine design, corporate identity design, web applications, or book typesetting. Type Specimen is a quick and easy way to navigate the type foundry, … Continue reading
David Berlow and staff drew Apres as part of a series designed originally for the Palm Pre smart phone, for use both on the device and in print marketing. Simple, open letterforms and generous proportions provide a clear, comfortable, and inviting experience for navigation and readability. The plain-spoken geometry is regular and balanced, without being … Continue reading
The world is filled with recognizable and unique numbers that have never been available as fonts — until now. Every year, Pentagram chooses twelve beloved typefaces for its iconic Pentagram Calendar. Traditionally, the calendar features works by typographers past and present, from timeless standards like Garamond and Bodoni to modern classics such as Knockout and … Continue reading
A Back to Basics A minimum three strong stories (high-performance emotions); At least one “beautiful” picture that will tell a story in 10 seconds; List of what I need to know and I can find in the newspaper/magazine; List of what I should know if I have extra five minutes; Something that will make me … Continue reading
Newspaper typefaces require a higher legibility then typefaces used for other printed products. Newspaper are printed on a paper of lesser quality under high speed. 1. Great newspaper body copy typeface. Serif typeface is easier to read then sans serif font. 2. The right size. Don’t go under 9 pt. As a basic rule this … Continue reading
New York Times Magazine Project Art direction by Arem Duplessis and Gail Bichler.Commissioned to replace the magazine’s trusted go-to sans Helvetica, Sunday is an expansive family of fonts for information in tiny spaces and headlines at large sizes. Exclusive to the New York Times until 2011. Design: Eric Olson.processtypefoundry.com
The Small Text versions are made specifically for use in small point sizes. The designer adjusted the thickness of the strokes and the proportions of the letters, so that they are easier to read in small sizes than the original – much like in the days of lead type when it was common to cut … Continue reading