Drew Wilson has introduced a new service ($19–$99/year) which allows designers to create custom icon fonts from his Pictos collection. It’s crazy simple: Pick your icons, assign to letters, and embed the font live, ala Typekit, or download the file for a small fee. Brilliant.
Also: if you need a little convincing as to why you would want to use a webfont for icons, check out this excellent article on CSSTricks.
Collator, a Pay-What-You-Want font that is also available for web embedding. Distributed through Practice Foundry:
Practice Foundry is an independent type foundry and a collective space for showcasing the work of amateur type designers in Canada. Our goal is to create a stronger Canadian typographic presence.
AIGA takes a look at the popularity and use of Archer, a fantastic (if not overused) slab serif from HFJ:
Archer boomed right when the U.S. economy went bust. With unemployment continuing to soar and businesses declaring bankruptcy, with newspapers and magazines folding and personal savings accounts shrinking, Americans, more than ever, crave trust, comfort, friendliness and other fuzzy feelings. Companies are responding, and Archer may be part of the solution.
House Industries has launched their new mid-century typeface, Eames Century Modern, at the Eames Office in Santa Monica.
This is not helping my H&FJ addiction.
One of Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ finest emails: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts.
A Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.
The venerable typography blog, I Love Typography, has released a list of their favorite fonts for 2009. The post is designed a bit like Boston.com’s The Big Picture, with big, beautiful samples of last year’s greatest typefaces. Of note, I definitely plan on picking up a copy of Trilby soon, and shown above is HFJ’s Sentinel, probably my #1 pick for best new font in ‘09.
“You saw me, in my humble proportions, and said “No, not big enough.” Undoubtedly, a few mouse-clicks later, your most talented technician had me soaring to new cap-heights. Let me never come back down.”
Public Gothic is a new gothic font by Antrepo with 4 fantastic variations, and it’s free.
