Font Soup - Type Blog http://www.fontsoup.com Being Updated - normal service will resume shortly. Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:48:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hyaline ‘Layered’ Font – Exclusive Free Download 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.]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2010/02/hyaline/ The League of Moveable Type 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…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2010/02/leagueofmoveabletype/ Always Play Amongst Friends – FoT 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…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2010/02/fotprints/ Jessica Hische 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…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2010/01/jessicahische/ Liza Pro – Underware 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…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2010/01/lizapro/ LAIKA – a dynamic typeface Thanks to BuroDestuct for this video by two designers, Michael Flückiger and Nicolas Kunz. They are probably better explaining it than me:

“For our bachelor thesis, we engaged ourselfs with dynamic typography, especially with dynamic typefaces. Since not…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2009/12/laika/ Béla Frank aka fabergraph Béla Frank is a Graphic Designer from Hungary, he had this to say about himself:

“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…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2009/11/fabergraph/ Aron Jancso You will probably recognise this great ‘gk’ poster from doing the blog rounds in the summer. Thanks to Craig Matchett I have now found the complete typeface created by Hungarian designer Aron Jancso.

Aron is a self-proclaimed type addict, primarily…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2009/11/aron-jancso/ Village 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…

]]> http://www.fontsoup.com/2009/11/village/ p.s.type 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…

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