Day 358 - Typography: Learning to read with friendly elephant font

Mirko Humbert, a swiss designer, created  a new font. Not just a font, but a font in which a cute elephant figures. He used this font to teach his son how to read. 

Below you see the illustrations of A, B and C.

Day 356 - Merry Christmas!

Tomorrow it's Christmas. Wish you and your families and friends a very merry Xmas!

Day 351 - Free font for graphic designers: LOT

LOT is a free font that can be downloaded on Fontfabric.

It can be uses in any type of design, but personally I think it looks the best on large prints, such as on posters and t-shirts.

Give it a try and create your design with LOT!

Day 302 - Free display font for graphic designers

How about this free display font? I personally love it!

It's called ACCENT and it is designed by Nelson Balaban.
You can download via his page on behance.

Day 294 - Free font for personal use: Drops of Jupiter

Today a link to a very nice handwritten font that carries the curious name:
Drops of Jupiter.

The font is designed by Kimberly Geswein, and it can be download for free at fontspace.

Enjoy!

Day 281 - Handmade typography: font made from.... flowers!

Yesterday, I told you about design studio Handmadefont. They develop new fonts by looking around them and taking everyday objects as inspiration.

This fancy font is called 'Yellow flowers' font. It refers to the hippie's time. I like it a lot, it makes me happy.

If it makes you too happy, you can buy it at the website from Handmadefont.

Day 280 - Graphic design & typography: funny font, made from... eggs!

Handmadefont, an Estonian design studio, is specialized in developing unique fonts. the inspiration comes from everyday objects. Like e.g. eggs!

Here's an overview of the ingrdients of this font:
1000 eggs
10 pans
5 burned fingers
3 hours
1 bottle of oil

And here's the result: Egg font, for sale at www.handmadefont.com/product/eggs-font

Day 277 - Free script font for graphic designers: Braxton

On the website of Fontfabric type foundry I found this new font: Braxton.

Braxton is a brush script font. Is is designed by Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky, from Russia.
You can download for free.

Enjoy!

Souce: www.fontfabric.com

Day 272 - Graphic design: Dislectika, or how it feels to be dyslectic...

Wondering how it feels to be dyslectic?

Navid Nuur, a Dutch artist who was born in Iran, had developed a typeface that let's you experience dyslexia. In his for, that is called Dislectika, lines start to move, forms are transforming and the letters blend together and create new words.

Visit hie website and discover how it feels to be dyslectic:
www. dislectika.nl

Dislectika by Navid Nuur

Source: www. dislectika.nl

Day 243 - One of my favorite free fonts: dingbats and more for graphic designers

Dingbats are great, e.g. for displays, brochures, banners, chalkboards, etc.

How about these? I like and use them a lot.

Want to use them too? Then visit Ella Claire's blog!

Day 241 - Free font for graphic designers, great for logo's and displays

Today I started to work on a new logo design.

I made sketches, experimented with different colors and searched for a nice typeface.
On the internet I found the font you see below. Not what I needed right now, but still very nice. So I decided to download it. For free, for personal and commercial use (www.dafont.com).

Source

Day 207 - Free font for graphic designers: Neon font 'Kabel'

I have been searching for a light or neon font.

On the website of FontFabric I found this amazing font.
It is called Kabel, and it is designed by Mathias Nösel. 

You can see more of his work on:

www.behance.net/mnoesel

www.twitter.com/mnoesel

Day 183 - Free font for graphic designers: Prime, a free techy font

As I told you befote, Fontfabric type foundry offers several free fonts on their website.

One of them is this techy font, designed by Max Pirsky:

"Prime is a simple typeface with a techy feel and a strict, geometric origin. I wanted to create something that offers great readability in various sizes yet still offers enough subtle differences to stand out. Basic and somewhat neutral, it can be used in a variety of ways from distinct titles to body text.  – Max Pirsky

Day 170 - Typography: Photograghical alphabet Type the Sky

It's not new, it was designed in 2007, but as I like it vey much I like to present you
Type the Sky

Type the Sky is a photographical alphabet, created by Lisa Rienerrmann.
It consist of sky 'snippets that are framed by houses.

Want to see more of her work? Visit her website!

Day 155 - Amazing 4D typography by studio Lo Siento from Spain

Lo Siento, a Spanish design studio, made a very special cover for Wired Magazine UK.

They developed a 4D typography by injecting a colored liquid into plastic bubble wrapping paper.
Here's an impression of their work (source: Lo Siento)

Day 152 - Lovely free font for graphic designers: Lovelo

Lovelo is a free font that was originally developed for bike manufacturer Velo Arch.
The font is designed by Renzler Design (Vienna, Austria).

The geometric typeface is available iin 3 versions:
- sans serif 
- a light line version
- and a bold line version

(Source: Font Fabric)

Day 143 - Free font for graphic designers: Multicolore

Fontfabric type foundry offers several free fonts on their website.
One of them is this multi colored vector font, designed by Ivan Filipov from Bulgaria.

Mulicolore is not only available in .otf but also in vector format (.eps and .ai), so you can easily create your own color varieties. Below you find some examples (source: Fontfabric)

Day 77 - Free font for Graphic Designers: Qub

This amazing font, called QUB, is designed by Adi Dizdarevic.

A free download is available for personal use. If you want to use it commercially, it has to be bought.
More photos of this beautiful font are available in his behance gallery.