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Bauhaus
The Bauhaus was famous for its approach to design favoring simplified forms, rationality, and functionality. Here are some typefaces created from and inspired by that school of thought.
DIN Alternatives
We’re obviously partial to DIN here at FontShop, but sometimes you want something softer, or more humanistic, or with some additional details for display settings.
Distressed Type
It’s often best to apply a post effect to make type appear authentically aged, but a pre-distressed typeface can be handy. Here are fonts that come weathered, stamped, or otherwise beaten up right out of the box.
FontShop.com’s
New Navigation Bar
Noticed a cleaner, more functional FontShop lately? As we continue to add new products, features, and content, it was time to rethink the way you get to all that stuff.
So what’s changed? We’ve reduced the main navigation tabs at the top of the site to the three cores of our offering: Fonts, Blog (news and ideas), and Help (support and services). The new “Get Started” area of the homepage summarizes those options.
This opened up space in the site-wide nav for the personal account links which should now be familiar from the bottom of each newsletter: your History, Favorites, and Cart.
Our new nav bar, along with the updated left nav and footer, will help you get to what you need quickly and maybe even introduce you to parts of FontShop you missed before. Let us know what you think!
Stefan Sagmeister Inspired Cover For Esquire
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Bar Refaeli wears nothing but lettering for the July 2009 issue of Esquire.
ScreenFonts: Star Trek, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Angels & Demons, The Limits Of Control
Our monthly review of movie poster typography.
Animated (Typo)graphics With Post-It Notes
Savannah College of Art and Design student Bang-yao Liu’s “Deadline” is a superb stop-motion video made entirely with sticky colored paper.
Celebrating the new typography of the 1830s, Nick Shinn has readdressed the history of sans and serif, questioning the convention that modernism in type is predicated on twentieth century art. The suite is two typefaces: Scotch Modern, a serif style popular in the Victorian era; and Figgins Sans, a grotesque/geometric design based on the earliest sans serifs.
Both faces share the same proportions and impressive character sets (including Greek and Cyrillic) making Modern Suite a truly integrated type system.
Download the Modern Suite Specimen PDF »
See the type in depth and read more about the theory behind the work.
Most slab serifs (Lubalin Graph, Memphis, Rockwell) come from a geometric or grotesque tradition. Conversely, Lexia is a contemporary font family with open character shapes hinting at a humanist design structure. There are no superfluous design details — every curve, every line is carefully considered and contributes to an aesthetic and functional whole. Offering six weights, each with italics, Lexia is an ideal family for modern corporate communication.
Update: Now with extra bold Advertising weight for headlines.
Adrian Frutiger᾿s masterpiece is now available in a Pro version with support for Turkish, Baltic, and Central European languages.
Alizé
Inspired by the chancery italic of the 16th century, Alizé’s syncopations in axes and subtle irregularities form a lively and delicate weave.
Diavolo
Hearken back to an era when packages were tins, labels were hand-lettered, and scripts leaned left.
Verveine
There are many handwriting fonts, but few are so readable, and very few are packed Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic character sets.
P22 Festiva
Evoke 1960s pop and TV culture with a lively latin style that dances on the baseline.
Flex 
by Paul van der Laan for Bold Monday
P22 Brass Script by Michael Clark and Rich Kegler for IHOF
Ikiru Serif & Sans by Boris Dworschak for Gestalten
TYPO Berlin 2009
The FontFeed’s Yves Peters reports from Europe’s preeminent design conference, with comments on everything from the presentations to the design of the conference itself.
Vendetta for “Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events”
The haunting end credit titles for “Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events” feature Vendetta, a peculiar interpretation of the Venetian model by John Downer.
FontStruct Is Communication Arts Interactive Annual 15 Winner
We’re pleased to announce that FontStruct was recognized as one of the year’s most remarkable achievements in interactive design.
Slab: Bracketed
Clarendon is in again! Here are all our versions of the original, plus some relatives, each with curvacious strokes, ballish terminals, and sturdy slabs.
Spurless Sans Serif
First made popular by Hans Reichel’s FF Dax in 1995, these contemporary sans serifs have no spurs (verticals that extend beyond the bowls of letters like the ‘a’ and ‘g’).
Comic Sans Alternatives
Don’t settle for the layman’s version of a “fun” typeface. Here are some more professional ways to have a good time.
The New
FontShop.com
Footer
As we continue to improve FontShop.com we’re in the midst of some big shifts in the way the site is organized. But thanks to our new, expanded footer you’ll never lose track of the most important pages and features of the site.
No matter where you are, it’s just a quick flick of the scroll wheel down to the latest newsletters and FontFeed entries, the newest fonts and bestsellers, and links to all our service and support pages.
You’ll even find ways to connnect with us via social networks, plus the latest update from our Twitter account.
As always, we welcome your feedback on these — and all — changes to the site.
These typefaces were created by Ian Party for his partner Max Buechi’s publication of culture and photography, SangBleu. Stripping his Romain BP down to its bare essentials, Party created a family in the tradition of fashion magazine typography: thin, graceful, classic and modern at once. SangBleu comes in sans and serif varieties, the sans taking on an almost inscriptional quality. The Hairline weights are especially delicate — the Serif is probably the lightest of its class — best used only at very large sizes.
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