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The League of Moveable Type

Font Soup — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:57:18 +0000

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.

Village

Font Soup — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:25:33 +0000

While scouring the depths of Twitter for some typography people I came across http://vllg.com

Village is a union of ten fresh type foundries that have decided to band together to help each other survive in the fierce world of font distribution.

We are based in New York City, but are a global group, with members from Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.

What I find especially pleasing is the fact they have restrained themselves from growing any bigger than what they wanted, by keeping their members small Village have guaranteed the quality of work will be maintained. Compared to other foundry behemoths such as MyFonts, Village stands strong as something unique and inspiring.

Ironically if many fonts that get watered down by being available on MyFont or Dafont where to be available on a site such as Village, maybe they would be have a better reputation in the design community.

Immediately I noticed two of my favorite new typefaces, Fakir and Bello from Underware.

p.s.type

Font Soup — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:01:25 +0000

I’m a big fan of the Cargo Collective cms so when I found the p.s.type website I was very impressed. I think what gave it more importance is the fact that the founder, Mark Caneso, is not using Cargo for his personal design studio website, ppwrk studio. While we are on the topic of the website, Mark has integrated a very nice drop-down ecommerce system for every font that is for sale.

What I really like about p.s.type is the extremely high quality of all the typefaces, it is definitely all killer and no filler. The images Mark has created leave you wanting more, especially the compare diagrams. He has strayed away from the typical type sample poster.

The foundries newest release is Ratio: ”Ratio is a new, contemporary typeface designed by Mark Caneso and released by psType. Ratio exudes the best of both humanist and geometric sans serifs. Ratio is available in 6 weights ranging from Thin to Heavy all with matching italics.” To celebrate the release of Ratio, Mark is offering a special ’12 fonts 12 months 12 bucks’ deal, bargain! You can check out more of Ratio in the release PDF or on the website.

Now for some eye candy: