Marcin WicharyWorking on my first font specimen. It’s fun.
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Here it is! https://shifthappens.site/gorton-perfected-specimen.pdf
Any feedback is very welcome. Even though it’s out, I’m still working on it! I have so many photos of Gorton in use it’s hard to choose sometimes.
David Jonathan RossToday @FontsInUse features a truly mind-blowing use of my typefaces Fit and Lab DJR for http://mikesmaze.com, rendered in corn at font sizes upwards of 100,000pt.
The maze asks the question “In the age of artificial intelligence, what makes us human?” and was designed by Jess Marsh of Hired Hands Signs (https://www.hiredhandsigns.com / http://instagram.com/hiredhandsigns). She even used Fit’s variable width axis to help the text align with the rows of corn and the size of the field!
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/55689/mike-s-maze-2023-what-makes-us-human
Fonts In UseOver the past days, we have published more than 25 new uses of #fonts with interlocking letterforms. https://fontsinuse.com/tags/10566/interlocking-letterforms
The examples include film titles and posters, record and book covers, food packaging and more. They range from 1961 to 2023, and from Brazil to Greece and the Philippines.
See all uses of the featured fonts by Headliners, Filmotype, PLINC, Lettergraphics, House Industries, @typodermic, and PintassilgoPrints: https://fontsinuse.com/search/advanced?v=2&match0=all&typefaces0=230949,40498,125579,144046,28096,29098,28977,202766,115266,161117,126972,91899,125578
Sixty years ago, in November 1963, #MauriceSendak published his now famous #ChildrensBook, Where the Wild Things Are.
Did you know that the casual letterforms on the first edition #BookCover aren’t custom drawn, but type? They stem from an obscure #font named Safari which came with numerous alternate glyphs. Patrick Concannon put together a post about the #design, and @jaykay109 tracked down the origin of the #typeface. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/54045/where-the-wild-things-are-by-maurice-sendak-h
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Harper & Row first edition)
From Wikipedia: Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an a
This week I made a wild discovery: the original interlock display font used for the cover of “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak. I wrote about my “Safari” here: https://blog.threestepsahead.com/general/safari-where-the-wild-things-are-font/ @FontsInUse #typography #WhereTheWildThingsAre #MauriceSendak #fonts #fontsinuse #photolettering
Mark SimonsonI wrote a piece on my blog about something that's been on my mind lately: Keeping the digital world in its place and reconnecting with the analog world... https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/1979
The Skiffy and Fanty ShowWhat a super cool piece on the history of the font on the covers of Frank Herbert's Dune novels! From Fonts in Use. Digs down into the history of the font, the difficulty in tracking it down, and much more. #sciencefiction #typography https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43515/the-mystery-of-the-dune-font
Riley CranOk, I’m going to try my first thread about #typography on Mastodon. Wish me luck!
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Today’s thread is a story about some #lettering research I did, which led me to discover a strange mystery :
Letterform Archive ImagesGreat to see @kennedyprints on here! @letterformarchive has a few of their incredible pieces
