I’ve had an excuse to let my inner-child out with my recent tongue piercing as solid foods were off the menu for the past week. So at our recent visit to the supermarket I stashed up on soups and the like—perfect excuse to get some alphabet noodles.
Of course silliness always ensues with alphabet noodles—I was reading […]
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Found this via ILT’s latest Sunday Type from fontblog.de:
Comic Jens is a looser and more aesthetic alternative to Comic Sans by Jens Kutilek. With a wholesome set of 303 characters in regular and bold, all available freely under a Creative Commons license in OpenType format no one has an excuse to use Comic Sans anymore.
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Turning the pages of a 250-year old book has a uniqueness to it that makes it quite different to flipping through what normally sits on my bedside table. Last week a friend kindly gave me the opportunity to peruse a German Lutheran bible, hand made for a Thomas CI Aussen (the “A” could potentially be […]
Because it’s type-related I couldn’t resist waiting another day before publishing this…
…Yesterday I was going through an old un-named sketch book. Right at the back were these beautiful hand-drawn versal letters and an entire page of weaving ornaments:
Versals, drop capitals or raised capitals are large and often ornately decorated capital letters marking the opening of a running […]