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

“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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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!

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.

“For our bachelor thesis, we engaged ourselfs with dynamic typography, especially with dynamic typefaces. Since not much work has been done in this field, we devised a system in which a typeface would not be defined static fonty styles anymore but would be able to change it‘s shape and appearance at any moment reacting to a broad spectrum of inputs.”

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“3 years ago I started to work as a graphic designer in a small studio and study graphic design at the same time. From the first time typography was my favorite subject. Some of my exam works were exhibited at the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts this year – definitely biggest moment till now :) This year I leaved the school and started experimenting with typeface design – and become an addict at once. Now typographic/calligraphic self-training consume all of my spare time.”

The first thing I noticed from Béla’s portfolio is his enthusiasm for posters and fonts, his website is definitely worth a look and it’s a nice example of Indexhibit. But where I found the cream of the crop is on his Flickr page, Béla has collected a very large amount of photographs of found type and development work of his own. His finished type work is of a very high standard butBéla’spen work is on another level, hours of practice have definitely been spent drawing letterforms.

Béla’s website is here www.fabergraph.hu and flick www.flickr.com/photos/fabergraph

Béla submitted his work to Font Soup, you can do the same by emailing hello@fontsoup.com or twittering @fontsoup

Aron is a self-proclaimed type addict, primarily working with modernist and calligraphy styles. The sample-poster that you may have seen doing the blog rounds belongs to the font family Ogaki, available from Gestalten.

What I find nice is the consistency of simple, clean designs. Focusing your eye on the details of the letter-forms.

Check out more of Aron’s work at his Flickr.

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.

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: