This week we’re moving our Free Font Friday up to Wednesday … because timing is everything when it comes to the holidays. First up we offer Katahdin Round by Tyler Finck, a graphic designer based in Ithaca, NY.  Named after...

There’s no doubt that “handcrafted” is having a moment. The artisanal, made-by-hand concept is even being mocked by mass-market brands, so you know it’s a thing. While big brands might publicly heckle the artisanal approach, consumers are increasingly self-selective about...

Westward ho, circle those wagons, and all that. This week’s first font would be right at home on the old saloon door. Barbaro by Iván Núñez is a vintage style reminiscent of the late 1800s. The family includes both Roman...

Sometimes you need to go big.  In the design world, it’s not simply a matter of upping the font size. To really have the impact and design clout you want in your large-scale projects, choose fonts that were designed specifically...

Part of the fun of working in design in the range of styles and occasions we get to create for. And sometimes, you just have to put on your fancy duds and dress up. When that time comes, consider Niconne...

There are a million ways to use fonts in our multi-channel world. But when it comes to news – when you need to get the message across clearly and legibly – it’s best to use a font designed specifically for...

Teeny tiny.  That’s the basic idea behind designing for today’s smartphone apps. So it makes sense that font designers are creating new solutions, like Rhodium Libre by James Puckett, founder of Dunwich Type. This slab serif font has wide, open...

There are times for bold statements, and times to back it off a bit. This week we offer two fonts that can do just that. First, please meet Unna by Omnibus-Type. It’s a kindly font, designed by Jorge de Buen...

Slab fonts– with their thick, block-like serifs – generally impart a certainly solidity and confidence. Yet not all slabs have the same gravitas, and sometimes it’s easy to overlook the subtle, but important, differences.Take Gaspar, for example, a contemporary slab...

Back in 2014, designer Ben Whitmore saw a problem. “Of the hundreds of thousands of free fonts on the web, only a tiny handful are ‘text’ fonts suitable for plain text,” he explained in a blog post. “Some of these...