FontShop Releases FontShuffle

Posted on December 5, 2008December 5, 2008 Posted in Apple, TypographyTagged app, fonts, helvetica, iphone, ipod, typeface, Typography9 Comments

Today FontShop Berlin announced the release of FontShuffle, a type specimen catalog for your iPhone or iPod Touch. When I read this I jumped out of my chair. I’ve been waiting for an app like this since like forever dude! But after downloading it and playing around with it this morning, I’m a little disappointed. First I’ll start off with some of the good things about this app and then I’ll get into the stuff that makes this app fall flat on its face. Continue reading “FontShop Releases FontShuffle” →

Chocolate Letterpress

Posted on September 22, 2008September 22, 2008 Posted in TypographyTagged chocolate, fonts, letterpress, sorts, Typography11 Comments

Delicious looking letterpress sorts made out of chocolate.

UPDATE:

Ministry of Type confirms that the typeface used here is FF Fago Normal.

Hiruko Typeface

Posted on September 10, 2008September 10, 2008 Posted in Merch, TypographyTagged family, fonts, rounded, san-serif, type, typeface, Typography, weights1 Comment

Alex of Thinkdust informed me about an elegant new typeface family that he designed called Hiruko. It comes in a variety of styles including Regular, Alternative, Light, Oblique, and soon Heavy, Medium, and Outline. You can purchase the fonts at the site.

Tondo

Posted on August 6, 2008August 6, 2008 Posted in TypographyTagged fonts, type, typeface, typographic, Typography7 Comments

FontShop just released a new font called Tondo by Dalton Maag. It comes it 3 weights (Light, Regular, Bold) as well a condensed version. I have soft spot for round faces (I need to use them more) and Tondo is reminiscent of the exceptional face VAG.