Forma – The Failed Quest for a Universal Typeface
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Living in the age of speed-of-light technical progress, it’s hard to remember when innovation and change was slower … much slower. Yet businesses faced some of the same challenges we do now when they fail to adapt quickly enough, and...
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Can a Free Font Really Kick You In the Chest? 
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We don’t know about that, but this week’s pick will certainly add a punch to your design toolbox. Bold, classic and spare.  That’s the overriding characteristics of this week’s first free font, League Spartan. Designed by The League of Moveable...
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Make a Big Impact with This Week’s Free Fonts
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If you’re looking for a font that makes an inviting impact without being too bold, try Rubik.  The sans serif font from Hubert & Fischer features a sturdy but soft design with rounded corners and comes in five weights plus...
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10 Steps to Creating (Yes, Creating!) Truly Stellar Fonts 
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Creating a new font is often a challenging journey, as Mathiew Triay writes in Creative Review. “I recently finished working on Marvin Visions, a modern reinterpretation of the typeface Marvin that was originally designed in 1969 by Michael Chave and...
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Tall, Skinny and Honest Free Fonts
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Inspired by playbills and advertisements of 1800s, Abraham Lincoln font by Frances MacLeod is a humanist display face font with sturdy serifs. Tall skinny, and honest, you can download it at Lost Type.This week’s second font is Serrific, an absolutely terrific...
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Trysting the Night Away on Free Font Friday
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Can a typeface have split personalities? Any good font geek will tell you they sure can. But it’s not always obvious on first glance. Take Tryst, a transitional, highly readable serif font designed by Philatype. The way it’s been designed...
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Polly Want a Free Font?
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Looking for a good, clean and concise serif font for your web or print design challenges? These two free fonts deliver. Poly was designed by Nicolás Silva as his final project for the postgraduate certificate in typeface design from the...
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A Little Whimsy, a Little Elegance for Free Font Friday
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We've got fancy fonts this week! Maybe it’s the warm spring weather, who knows, but we think you’ll like our two free font choices for this week. Athene is a traditional font with a Greek classical feel, designed by Matt Ellis from...
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Raise Your Hands for Type Revivalism in the Digital Age
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Traditionalists vs. modernists exist in just about every aspect of our culture. Their preferences and beliefs shape their work, their creativity and their careers, often with polarizing effect. This is evident in the world of font design, as this article...
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A Whole Extended Family of Free Fonts This Week
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What’s better than two free fonts? Two big font sets with plenty of in-laws. Source: Behance This week’s free fonts start with Butler, by Belgium designer Fabian De Smet. Inspired by the Bodani and Dala Floda font, the serif typeface...
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