We live for type. The FontFeed is an inspirational journal of typography tips, recommended fonts, and bits of design from around the web that caught our typographic eye.
Extra Light, Ultra Thin Fonts: Hairline Type Lends Elegance to the Page
FF Meta Light with PMN Caecilia in Real Simple magazine.
Just as there is often a need for extra heavy type, the delicate stuff on the light end of the spectrum has its place as well. Here, we gather the typefaces in FontShop’s catalog with the thinnest of weights. See the Fine Lines newsletter for a closer look at some of our favorites.
By Stephen Coles | link | No Comments | 
New Foundry: Porchez Typofonderie
FontShop is honored to be the exclusive reseller of Porchez Typofonderie, France’s premiere digital type library by Jean-François Porchez. Read more and see the fonts in our most recent emailing.
The Font 006 Online Companion
The latest issue of Font magazine is hot off the press, and it’s free. Check your FontShop subscription settings to make sure you are subscribed.
In Font 006, we visit design from South Africa, Sarajevo, São Paulo, Iran, and Havana. You can take the journey to the web, too. Here is a detailed table of contents, sprinkled with links and font info, so you can follow along digitally while you read the magazine.
By Stephen Coles | link | No Comments | 
QBN Sessions Demonstrates Fine Web Typography
The inaugural QBN Sessions, a one-day design lecture series, will kick off on September 7 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Names like Shepard Fairey, Joshua Davis, and Michael C. Place are worthy enough of mentioning, but we’re giving the conference props here in the ’Feed simply for the elegant website design featuring FF Info Text and Underware’s Dolly, which sits remarkably well on the same page with HTML Georgia. And what’s that chunky serif type in the QBN logo? Cooper Black, of course.
Every conference website should display speaker and program information this clearly.
By Stephen Coles | link | No Comments | 
2007 FontShop Calendar: August
August Featuring Bureau Grot and Mayo
A special edition of our FontShop 2007 calendar celebrates David Berlow and his SOTA Award at TypeCon2007 for lifelong achievement in type design. His versatile family Bureau Grot rests among the bright colors and angles of the Seattle Public Library.
- printable 11×17 (12.8MB PDF)
- desktop wallpaper (270K JPG)
- widescreen desktop wallpaper (321K JPG)
By Calliope Gazetas | link | No Comments |
