New Font Bureau Fonts

Font Bureau’s latest release includes: Titling Gothic, a versatile new family that’s being put to use in publications like the LA Times and GQ; Truth, an expansion of Apple’s Charcoal®; Minah, a fanciful display typeface by Jacqueline Sakwa; and 45 new styles of Clicker, Greg Thompson’s grid-based sans serif. Read on for samples.
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New Device Fonts

Rian Hughes of Device Fonts has unleashed a bucketload of new type in the last few weeks. All of it — ornate and playful, display and text — is now available at FontShop.

If the samples below whet your appetite for the diverse wares of this prolific Englishman, order his new anniversary catalog: Ten Year Itch. The 160-page tome of specimens is free (minus a small shipping fee for those outside North America) — just shoot us an email.
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The Logos of Web 2.0

There is no official standard for what makes something “Web 2.0”, but there certainly are a few tell-tale signs. These new sites usually feature modern web technologies like Ajax and often have something to do with building online communities. But even more characteristic among these brands is their appearance. Web 2.0 sites nearly always feel open and friendly and often use small chunks of large type. The colors are bright and cheery — lots of blue, orange, and what we jokingly call the Official Color of Web 2.0: lime green.

You can see some of these striking commonalities in Ludwig Gatzke’s compilation of nearly 400 Web 2.0 logos. Read on for a breakdown of the fonts used in a few of our favorite brands.

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Tip: Elements of Web Typography

Robert Bringhurst’s “The Elements of Typographic Style” is the undisputed bible of typography, but its instructions are limited to print design. Richard Rutter is filling that need with “The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web”. The new site will present Bringhurt’s principles one nugget at a time in a manner relevant to web designers. We can’t think of a better way to improve the way type looks and reads on the screen.