Clipper was a big success for designer Dominc Le-Hair in 2009, an exclusive download on imjustcreative. A few emails between Font Soup and Dominic and we are ready to have our own exclusive download. I’ll let Dominic explain Hyaline.

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“I am a 32 year old Graphic Designer living and working in Peterborough, UK. I left Teesside University in 2001 with a BA Honours in Graphic Design.

I like to work on personal projects in my spare time as there are less restrictions than with most of the client briefs in my job. I try to be as original as possible with my work and like to occasionally combine hands-on media with digital techniques. I am inspired by designers who experiment with type, such as Craig Ward, Autobahn and Handmade Font.

About Hyaline

Originally inspired by Ultrasound scans and X-rays, Hyaline is a pixel style font that is only legible when the two individual fonts; Hyaline 1 and Hyaline 2 are layered one on top of the other.

The name Hyaline refers to a substance with a glass-like appearance. I chose to call it this as the fonts work well together when overlayed and the opacities of each are experimented with. They also work well together at 100% opacity.

Hyaline 1 consists of identical squares for each glyph and Hyaline 2 is made up of horizontal and vertical shapes that resemble tetris blocks or QR codes used in augmented reality. When layered on top of Hyaline 1, these blocks act as the negative shapes of a font taking ‘bites’ out of the square shapes to form letters.

When creating the fonts, I have set the kerning on Hyaline 2 so some of the glyphs overlap, creating interesting effects that alter depending on the adjacent letters, colours and the amount of opacity applied to each font. When the leading is adjusted so the top of Hyaline B sits flush with the bottom of Hyaline A, the glyphs overlap vertically creating the same effect.”

Dominic’s got more great type work on his Behance portfolio and you can follow him on twitter @DominicLe_Hair. Dominic will soon be making his Spykado font available for download, keep your eyes peeled.

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I stumbled upon The League of Moveable Type while looking at the Future of Web Design site, in the footer I noticed a link crediting League Gothic font that had been used.

They’ve got some pretty nice free open source fonts available for download and all are completely Font Face ready.

If you’ve got some pocket money to burn, I highly recommend spending it on some cracking prints from the guys at Friends of Type.

“A set of 4 prints, each by a different member of Friends of Type. Limited to an edition of 100, these prints were expertly letterpressed by the wonderful Jordan Provost of enormouschampion [enormouschampion.com]. Each portrait 8″ x 10″ print is blind embossed with the Friends of Type masthead and is numbered and signed by the designer. Printed on Neenah Classic Crest 110# paper.”

I received mine yesterday and I was very impressed by the quality of paper, printing and packaging, worth every penny.

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Chances are you already know the site Daily Drop Cap, if not it is an a project by typographer and illustrator  Jessica Hische. Each day Jessica uploads a new drop cap for you to use wherever you like. The site is definately worth a bookmark and so is Jessica’s portfolio site: http://jessicahische.com

Jessica is a typographer and illustrator working in Brooklyn, New York. As well as a big list of awards and magazine features, she is also quite handy with hand lettering. For more information about Jessica check out her website http://jessicahische.com Just like all the designers I feature on Font Soup, choosing which images to use was definitely hard!

Liza Pro comes from the same type foundry that created instant classics like Bello Pro and Fakir, Underware is also responsible for the very interesting MyFonts logo, recently listed as one of the year’s most successful new identities. The font also has some awards of it’s own, it has just been awarded Brush Script of the Year 2009 by MyFonts.com

Just like Bello, Liza uses the magic of OpenType to create a near endless list of possibilties when typesetting using an OpenType-optimised piece of software, a total of 4,000 glyphs definitely make the purchase worth while.