Dienstag, 15. November 2011

Drift (Peter Skwiot Smith)


Drift is a free, handset EPS font. It contains capitals, numerials and basic punctuation. It is distributed in with the letters in both strokes and solid vectors, for more flexibility. Files are saved as Adobe Illustrator CS3 EPS.

Dienstag, 16. März 2010

Goudy Bookletter 1911 (Barry Schwartz)



The great & free typography font Goudy Bookletter 1911 is made by Barry Schwartz and based on Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle.
A few words on why I think Kennerley Oldstyle is beautiful: In making this font, I discovered that Kennerley fits together tightly and evenly with almost no kerning. Thus the following words from Monotype specimen books are just: “[W]hen composed into words the characters appear to lock into one another with a closeness common in early types, but not so often seen in later-day creations.” These are letters that take command of the space around them; notice, for instance, the bowed shapes of the v and w.

Sketchetica (Ossi Gustafsson)



The new free font Sketchetica by Ossi Gustafsson is a mix between sketch an helvetica. The weight light you get free at the portfolio -> typefaces (via MyFonts.com).

Kilogram (Karl Martin Sætren)



KalleGraphics is the portfolio from Karl Martin Sætren and he is the creator from the excellent free font Kilogram. Don’t miss it!
These are freeware fonts and can be downloaded and used free of charge for both non-commercial and commercial use. Although these fonts are available for free, KalleGraphics™ retains the copyright, meaning that restrictions apply to alteration, reproduction, publication and distribution of the fonts. Practically you are not allowed to sell the fonts for profit or to include it in another product or CD-ROM compilation without permission.

A_B_ Stochome Modular (Adam Brandon)

A_B_ Stochome Modular Typeface from Adam Brandon has 2 weights, vector and hand drawn. 

Raleway (Matt McInerney)



Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed in a single thin weight. It is a display face that features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than it’s neo-grotesque inspired default character set.

Dienstag, 9. März 2010

Franchise Bold (Derek Weathersbee)




FRANCHISE is a powerful new display typeface meant to communicate your message quickly and with power. The characters were meticulously drawn to achieve a unifomity without compromising style. Franchise is just as much at home on the front of a donut shoppe as it is on the scoreboard at a football stadium. The face was created & kerned by someone who deals with type every day, so with Franchise, you won’t be spending all day fixing the space between A’s and Y’s. Happy Typesetting!

Montag, 16. November 2009

Deibi (Wete)


Deibi comes from Wete.

Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009

Retro Super Skinny/Stark Debonair (subflux)


Original designer: Robert Stark, 1975, VGC.

Digital substitute: Retro Super Skinny from subflux

Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009

McLane (The Cartoonist)

The Cartoonist (Ralf Zeigermann) made a typeface out of the titles of the science fiction TV series »Raumschiff Orion«: Mc Lane

Here the words from Ralf Zeigermann:
The Raumpatrouille Titles. I still think this is a rather modern looking typeface, even by today's standards. It's slightly reminiscent of the wide-running Eurostile typeface, but it's certainly not any known font. Hand-drawn, perhaps?
According to Josef Hilger, long-time fan and curator of the Raumpatrouille Museum, the titles were indeed drawn by hand. In the mid-sixties, this was probably done with a ruling pen on thick cardboard, then filled in with a brush.
Another version of the typeface surfaced many years ago, probably on Compuserve, which was created by someone unknown and was called »Star Patrol«.
After a discussion in the Frog Mailing List, I decided to give it a go myself. Anyone who wants to recreate the 'Raumpatrouille Font' is faced with the above problems — which version to go with? Also, there are a few characters missing in the titles. For example, I couldn't find an "x" anywhere, so I had to make it up, along with other 'missing' characters. Since there are so many different versions of the various letters in the original, I opted for the square version: a 5x5 matrix for the x-height.
I had to compromise. And I cheated too. Graphic designers always cheat.
I started off in fontstruct (which is great, but also rather limited) for the basic letter shapes, then downloaded the font to open it up again in FontLab, which a friend kindly lent me for the purpose of creating this darn Orion-Typeface.
And now it's all done and from my point of view the best Raumpatrouille font you can get for your computer. And that's simply because there is no other one. Enjoy.
I designed it as an Open Type .ttf and it's got got the basic Latin and some extended Latin, published under Creative Commons License 3.0, which means you can do whatever you like with the typeface; extend it, change it, or even mess it up completely. I don't care.
Final copyright is probably still with Bavaria Film.
Enjoy; grab the font and improve it. And if there are any problems, I really don't want to know. And don't get me started on the italics.