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Harrisons – what the fonts?

August 15th, 2010  |  by pixel8gravatarcloseAuthor: pixel8 Name:
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About: designer, surfer, urban monk find me at: http://www.twitter.com/pixel8 http://www.soultank.com http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/pixel8meSee Authors Posts (6)
 |  published in typography

I’ve set myself a challenge of trying to identify the various typefaces used in the signage of this local (Aberdeen, Scotland) hairdresser. WhatTheFont hasn’t been much help so far, but it’s early days as I’ve just posted a help in the forum. Can anyone identify the characters? (click the thumbnail to view a larger version) [...]

Chunk

February 26th, 2010  |  by dodgravatarcloseAuthor: dod Name: George McKnight
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 |  published in open source, typography

The League of Moveable Type have supplied a great ultra bold slab serif typeface for ‘free download’. Check out this font at: http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/4-chunk Submitted:  May 24th, 2009 Format: Opentype Size: 26.6 KB The font comes courtesy of Meredith Mandel, a graphic designer from the USA, with a sweet portfolio that’s worth giving a look. She [...]

Periodic Table of Typefaces

June 10th, 2009  |  by dodgravatarcloseAuthor: dod Name: George McKnight
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 |  published in graphic design, typography

Camdon Wilde over at Squidspot has produced this lovely ‘Periodic Table of Typefaces’, a collection of 100 “popular, influential and notorious typefaces today”. This can be found on the Behance Network, but if your after a nice, big, juicy version to buy, then head over to the Squidspot site and place your order (they do [...]

Volcano Type

May 14th, 2009  |  by dodgravatarcloseAuthor: dod Name: George McKnight
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 |  published in typography

Volcano Type is a firm/group/bunch that have a varied range of lovely fonts, with something for everyone. The prices of each font are very reasonable. My guess is that they are based in Germany, and run by Magma Brand Design, but I may be wrong on this, there’s no clear ‘About Us’ page on the [...]

Eric Gill

April 2nd, 2009  |  by dodgravatarcloseAuthor: dod Name: George McKnight
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 |  published in typography

MyFonts have put together a fantastic article on the great stonecarver, graphic artist, type designer and writer Eric Gill. A man in love with letters and life. Some further reading on Eric Gill can be found over at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill

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