Articles by John Boardley

Celebrating women-led foundries

I Love Typography launches a mentorship program for women-led (or co-led) foundries. Today, as we celebrate the first International Women’s Day since launching our store, we are thrilled to announce that we are starting a mentorship program for women-led or co-led foundries which will focus on providing regular advice on business development and marketing strategy.

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Typefaces for Human-centered Branding

If typography is the voice of a brand, what sort of typeface would fit a human-centered one? Award-winning type designer, educator, and typographic branding expert, Dr. Nadine Chahine, recommends typefaces ideally suited to human-centered branding design — typefaces able to project modernity while remaining anchored in humanity.

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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Nicholas

In this seventh episode of Font of the Month, Steven Heller goes back to the future with Nick Shinn’s magnificent Nicholas typeface family. Reminiscing about the great Herb Lubalin’s extra tight type settings in Avant Garde and Fact magazines of the 1960s, and then back to the present day and a typeface inspired by that era and those legends.

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The Month in Type: Feb 2020

Our monthly roundup of fonts, typography, and graphic design news and inspiration. From Pimp my Wordle and missing webfonts to interviews, must-read books, and design trends — all in the Month in Type.

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Featured Fonts: Feb 2022

Our monthly Featured Fonts Series is an opportunity to highlight some of our favorite typefaces, from hugely popular bestsellers to sometimes overlooked and hidden gems. This month, we have a classic text typeface with beautiful ornaments, a modern-day classic, a heavy-hitting display face, and a must-have brush script.

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Hot new fonts

This month’s hot new fonts include a voluptuous space-aged sans from Jean François Porchez, plus two new gems from Beasts of England that take us from the roaring twenties through the psychedelic 70s, and into the present day with aplomb and pizazz. Oh, and the launch of ILT’s premium collectibles!

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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Show

In this sixth episode of Font of the Month, Steven Heller takes us on a geo-historical journey from Modernist manifestos and 19th-century wood type to the brightly painted handcarts of Buenos Aires, Argentina — to trace the origins and inspiration for Huy! Fonts’ layer fonts family, Show. Buckle up!

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Font Chart Toppers: Recent bestsellers

Last week, I looked back at 2021 and chose ten of my ten favorite releases. Today’s typefaces kind of chose themselves — or more precisely, you chose them! These are ILT’s five top chart-toppers or bestsellers. It’s great to see world scripts represented, with support for Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin. So, without further ado, and in no particular order, your top five typefaces.

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The Month in Type: January 2022

Apparently, it’s now the year 2022 AD! I hope that you were able to decompress over the holidays and New Year, and that you’re now in good health and good spirits. If you missed last month’s edition, be sure to check it out. We named it The Year in Type. Oh, and […]

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My Favorite Fonts of 2021

It’s that time of year again. Although, for many reasons 2021 is best forgotten, it was a great year for type design. Join me as I look back and talk about my top ten favorite typefaces published in 2021.

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