Museums, galleries, theaters, concert halls, artists, musicians — the ‘culture industry’ is part of everyone’s lives. Designing well in this space is a challenge, but Johannes is here to save the day with his inspiring recommendations of Fonts for Culture Branding. Definitely one to bookmark!
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Expert Lists: Fonts for the Metaverse
Our new Expert Lists series invites design experts to recommend fonts for specific uses. Johannes López Ayala, creative director at Tipogris Books and Brands, and lecturer at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, introduces some of his favorite typefaces for the Metaverse. A selection with now and the future in mind.
Read MorePimp My Type!
Here at ILT, we’re huge fans of the perennially blue-shirted Oliver Schöndorfer, better known as the Pimp My Type guy. On Oliver’s Pimp My Type website and burgeoning YouTube channel, he eloquently and effortlessly explains many of the finer points of type choice and typography.
Read MoreSteven Heller’s Font of the Month: Feneon
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Craig Eliason’s magnificent Feneon font family.
Read MoreMaking friends with SideNote
From Rock to Screw to New York Times:
An interview with Steven Heller
Travel back to the sixties, and the scene of underground design, in this live interview with Steven Heller discussing his memoir Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York.
Read MoreSteven Heller’s Font of the Month: Slag
From the moment I started the engine in first gear with Slag Black, then accelerated to Slag Inline, Two Line, Three Line, and finally slid into Five Line, I felt an exhilarating jolt. There is so much color and texture in Slag’s linear geometric variations – and in the combination of large and small caps (which replaces lowercase letters) – that I was satisfied that the Slag family WAS the winnes in this month’s type road race.
Read MoreComic Code — it’s no joke!
Life is full of surprises. For example, Comic Code, designed by award-winning type designer Toshi Omagari, is one of our recent best-sellers, and our all-time best-selling coding font family!
Read MoreFeatured Fonts
These font families might have flown under your radar: Six must-have font families. All available from the ILT store.
Read MoreSteven Heller’s Font of the Month: Farandole & Lustik
This month it’s Font of the Month with an s! Yes, Steve heller takes a look at two unorthodox layer font families from rising French star Francis Chouquet. Vive la play!
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