masukomi, Starting to deal with layout questions means starting to consider #typefaces.
Wanted to share some really nice ones (not free, but cheap) I've come across this morning
ARQUI: a really nice take on traditional architecture drawings handwriting style BUT it ALSO has a lower case variant. https://creativemarket.com/juanmikes/1828260-Arqui-Architect-Blueprint-Font
Architect: (pic with escalator) somewhat extreme display font with arguably bad accessibility but also 👼💩 for a big name, could be great. https://creativemarket.com/Eleidan/1119873-Architect-sans-serif-font
FontsInUse, Over the past eight days, we have published 80 new Uses. Among the featured #FontsInUse are 38 #typefaces that weren’t represented in the collection before.
The debutants include brand new releases like Choppin, Euchre (@Okay) and Retiler, the custom Curtis (all 2024), and the yet unreleased Turist. The oldest newbie is Fuchs Space Age (c.1969).
There are sans, serif, slab, script, stencil, mono, rounded, pixel, eroded #fonts and more. See them all at https://fontsinuse.com
FontsInUse, Over the past week, we have added uses for 18 #typefaces that weren’t represented in the collection before. Here’s the #FontsInUse debutants (1/2):
AC Affix (2024) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/233089/ac-affix
Aelyn (2021) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/183804/aelyn
BDR Mono (1999) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/155422/bdr-mono
Feather Bold (@krista 2019) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/233362/feather-bold
Goga (2023) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/233235/goga
Hexadecimal (c.2019) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/231418/hexadecimal
Imperial Script (2003) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/21324/imperial-script-leuschke
Kit Sans & Rounded (2023) https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/230879/kit-sans
FontsInUse, @Luke No, that’s an exclusive typo.social service! 😉
What you can do on the site is visit the typeface page and check for Use count = 1.
Luke, @FontsInUse that’s brilliant. Thanky!
FontsInUse, New Typeface Entry: Theda Bara https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/232222/theda-bara, an art deco style in the vein of Baby Teeth, shown by Solotype as early as 1982. Like most Solo designs, it likely originated elsewhere. More info welcome!
Image: Art Deco Display Alphabets, Solotype/Dover, 1982 (https://archive.org/details/artdecodisplayal0000unse/page/90/mode/2up).
fhardwig, I have a soft spot for #typefaces that don’t really count as #blackletter but are infused with characteristics of broken script. Think Fanfare (Louis Oppenheim, 1929), ITC Honda (Bonder & Carnase, 1970), or, more recently, Eskapade Fraktur (Alisa Nowak, 2012) and Birra Bruin (Elena Schneider, 2019).
Felix Braden’s Ferryman is a fine new addition to this hybrid genre, and a convenient one: it comes in a full range of weights, with italics.
Now out on Floodfonts:
https://www.floodfonts.com/ferryman/
FontsInUse, Newly added:
Stingray, a twisted 3D extravaganza drawn by John S. Allen in the late 1960s for Photo-Lettering, Inc. See it in use for a book jacket and two record covers:
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/175125/allen-stingray
FontsInUse, Last week, Albert Boton, one of the preeminent French type designers of the past sixty years, died at the age of 91. We pay tribute with a series of applications of his #typefaces ➛ https://fontsinuse.com/type_designers/13/albert-boton
The newly added in-use examples span 57 years and feature 13 different typefaces, providing a glimpse into #AlbertBoton’s rich œuvre. Six of the #FontsInUse weren’t represented in our collection yet.
FontsInUse, Overview of #typefaces designed by #AlbertBoton. From “Albert Boton. 21 planches typographiques”, a publication edited by Olivier Nineuil and published in Ypsilon éditeur’s Bibliothèque typographique collection in 2011 (out of print).
ronanmcd, @FontsInUse That image alone is like walking through a small French city that still has lots of non-chain shops. It brings me back even further to family holidays in the 80s
davidbisset, https://www.freefaces.gallery is a curated collection of #typefaces that are available under a variety of free licenses. #fonts