Very good post about the font format Opentype and its predecessors TrueType and PostScript by Ralf Hermann:

The sixties were not only a decade of rebellion, flower power and sweet odours, but also had their particular typographic style. This style is dominated by organic curves, playful forms and strong weights, usualy combined with very bright, various colours. Here comes a collection of the best free Hippie style fonts. Continue Reading »

Greenpeace UK are doing a competion changing the BP logo:

“BP has a really nice logo, but it doesn’t really suit their dirty business. To me, a shiny green logo doesn’t really suit a company that is responsible for the oil currently gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and onto the beaches of Louisiana, or the company that’s sanctioning environmental disaster by being poised to invest in the Canadian Tar Sands. “

They are calling for designers and everybody else to change the BP logo. The winner will get a Greepeace goodie pack, but it’s all about the good cause, right? You can see stuff already submitted here.

via Spreeblick

Inspired by this blog, I tried to craft some custom ampersand glyphs myself. Download them here and use them in your designs!

As you know, the ampersand is the favorite character of most designers and typographers. It origines from the Latin “et” (meaning and) and has evolved many centuries.

Get ready for another great free font: 3Dumb/2Dumb by Tension Type. 3Dumb is one of those hand-drawn 3D Fonts, but a very neat one: It comes with 2Dumb, a, yes, 2D handwriting font which works very well with it. And it just looks much better than other fonts which this style! And if this would not be enough, it comes with a wonderful selection of glyphs. With free fonts, you can be glad if you just get any fonts, but this font has so many nice glyph features!

I recommend to use 3Dumb for headlines, and 2Dumb for body text. As both fonts are free, the kerning might need some manual improvement, so do this if you have the time for it.

Have a look at those nice glyphs (not all are included in this image):

Have a look at those Typefaces as dog breeds! The similarities are stunning. Helvetica is again classified as the German shepherd dog of typography!

via The Daily What

This one is for typophiles: Helvetica cookie cutters! I recommend not using Helvetica Light or Ultralight for baking cookies, as they would fall apart as I guess!

Created by Beverly Hsu, she sais she will create more of them and sell them on her website. So keep on checking it if you are interested!

via Park Street

 
Luz Sans is a popular font which is very similar to the classic Futura. It can be used as a Futura substitute or alternative.

Luz Sans font family was produced by type foundry Hoefler and is the corporate font of HP. So you can guess it is a quality font! Check the high quality free Futura and Helvetica alternatives post for more information.

The package contains these weights:

LuzSans-Bold • LuzSans-BoldItalic • LuzSans-Book • LuzSans-BookItalic • LuzSans-Heavy • LuzSans-HeavyItalic • LuzSans-Light • LuzSans-LightItalic • LuzSans-Medium • LuzSans-MediumItalic