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Custom Hand Lettering: Tattoos, Cereals, Beef

Between thumbnail and finished letter form is a well trod path. Typographer and designer Alan Ariail has been kind enough to document the entire process from ideation through execution.

Posted in Education, Resources, Typography

A, [lowercase B with a line], B, [backwards 7], [chunky uppercase A], E, [X with a line], 3

Cyrillic Letters do I see!

Posted in Design History, Drawing, Typography

Ministry of Type

Oh, the loveliest sites can be stumbled across when searching for something completely odd, such as a compendium of airport iconography.

Posted in Amusement, Course Related, Education, Resources, Typography, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession

Typography for Lawyers

Attorney Matthew Butterick invites lawyers to embrace clarity through typography. He is engaged to Aldonza Dulcinea Lorenzo del Toboso. They are planning a June wedding.

Posted in Amusement, Course Related, Shameless Plug, Typography

Understated, Humanist, Sans- and Great with Fish

Designed by Jos Buivenga, Fontin Sans is a both a complete type family and completely free. You can do anything with it but sell it. Check it out.

Posted in Course Related, Education, Resources, Typography, Vocation & Profession