May The Force Of Typography Be With You!

Dual geekery! Star Wars and typography at the same time! Impressive!

Advertising Agency: H-57 Creative Station, Milan, Italy
Creative Director: Matteo Civaschi, Gianmarco Milesi
Account Director: Sabrina Di Gregorio
Typographer: Matteo Civaschi

Click on the images to enlarge and notice the legend of all fonts used to create the Star Wars Characters (bottom left corner of posters).

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Typography Coffee Mug

Essential type tools in convenient mug form; historical font measurements, classifications, decimal conversions, proofreader marks etc...

A perfect gift for typophiles or anyone who works with fonts.
Get it here.

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Typographic Chessboard

The white pieces are set in Caslon Bold Condensed and the black in Univers Bold Condensed, each respectively representing the traditional and modern sides of typography. The pieces are cast in resin and the board is 10mm black acrylic with 45 degree lines laser engraved to represent the squares.

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Typefaces And Body Weights

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The Font Snob

Oh so true!!!...
Thanx Fad!

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iPhone Font

The iPhone Font is made by using 540 existing apps to create every letter in the alphabet (with the exception of W).

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Helveticaca: Helvetica For Babies

Helveticaca onesie! Hilarious!

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Typographic Mobile From Veer

Each set of characters is laser cut from recycled back card and lined with colorful press sheets from Veer’s past marketing pieces. The typeface is Clarendon modified with Baskerville ornamentation.

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Helvetica Cookie Cutters

Helvetica Cookie Cutters by Beverly Hsu.

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What Type Are You By Pentagram

Pentagram offers this fun interactive microsite to figure out which typeface best represents you. The password is "character".


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Around The World With The Bodoni Family

Written by graphic designer Teresa Monachino and printed by The Society of Revisionist Typographers, the 60-page limited edition book "Around The World With The Bodoni Family" cleverly takes a look at the centuries-old font by associating letters with places.

Using the Bodoni typeface, Monachino illustrates a geographic location with each letter of the alphabet—such as the letter A designed to represent the Alps (pictured above) and a leaning letter I representing Italy (pictured below).

Other locations include Olympia (pictured below, left) and Disneyland (below, right), highlighting both the font and Monachino's imaginative personality, more of which can be seen in her book "Words Fail Me" from Phaidon.

Complete with a foreword written by Dan Cruickshank and signed by both him and Monachino, "Around The World With The Bodoni Family" is an essential addition to any designer's bookshelf. A small run of only 40, the book can be purchased for £95 from the London Design Museum Shop or by emailing Studio Monachino.

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Helvetical

We all love most of the Google apps but Im sre most of us can agree that its UI is quite "disturbing". By using the Helvetica font, "Helvetical extends the work done by Jon Hicks on Helvetireader, turning the mayhem of the Google interface into something that doesn’t offend."

click here for more info on how to use it.

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IKEA Switches To Verdana, Everybody Goes Insane!

So, apparently, IKEA switched from Futura to Verdana. Why? Here's their official answer from Typophile:

"IKEA abandons 50 years of Futura and Century Schoolbook for… Verdana.
In an interview with swedish design magazine CAP&DESIGN the reason for the change is to be able to use the same font in all countries, including asian countries. Also they want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and the web."

Following the change, people go crazy about the whole issue. There is a petition to "ask IKEA to get rid of Verdana" , a facebook group was also created, and everybody is complaining about it on Twitter. Even Time magazine wrote an article about it.

Take a chill pill guys. Its not that big a deal! I think there are more important issue to worry about!!!!

So Fadi, hows the situation there in sweden, home of the retailer giant?

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IQ Font

iQ font by Pleaseletme Design; when driving becomes writing. Check out more pictures here.


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Helveticons

What if the font Helvetica was an icon set containing 245 icons, what would it look like? The brave souls at Helveticons.ch have taken the famous font and created the perfect royalty-free glyph companion for the typographic allstar Helvetica.


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Deep Font Challenge Game

Hilarious! You have to shoot the right font! Try it out!

via Ralf Herrmann's Typography Blog