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- TastyType #24 – A Bit of Everything
"What's your favourite typeface?" I get a mild panic when this question pops up on Twitter in various forms. I always want to reply with the most obscure and kick-ass typeface but usually get stuck because I cannot choose – there are simply too many that I like.
I look at typefaces as a part of a brand design and how they would look as a wordmark. Often I look at hundreds of fonts a day in all sorts of styles. Unlike say... UI designers I don't have a top 3 of typefaces that I stick to. If I did that all my projects would start to look the same.
Some Variety
Keep reading to view the different typefaces I picked for today to spice up whatever design you are working on. Or will be working on in the future.
(Ps, I made the images clickable!) 🎉
A high-contrast grotesk with a lot of personality. Cohesive across weights yet very different when viewed in Ultra Bold or Light. This will add character to any branding or website project.
For some reason slab style typefaces seem to be heavily under appreciated currently. A shame because they can add some great flair to any design. I'd love to see these used more in branding or long form reading content as headers, for example.
I absolutely love typefaces with an industrial look. Thin, bold, all caps, italic, all of it just looks great. Lower case 'g'? Amazing. Italic 'e'? Surprising round edge. With typefaces the beauty is often in the details.
As a young logo designer I would often use round typefaces for brand names next to my logos because they just look so nice and friendly. It's hard however to get round typefaces right, they are often too round, hard to read, or distracting. Nourd gets it right.
I can't stop looking at these shapes, this typeface is pretty much perfect. While writing this blurb I kept being distracted by these graceful shapes. So satisfying.
Those little gaps in the image above are ink traps. They are used to reduce the spread of ink, keeping the typeface crisp when printed. They've come back into fashion as a stylistic element, as most people do not do a lot of printing these days.
I said I would add some variety, right? This soft and bubbly display type adds some friendliness to any design. Most suitable for branding designs but I won't stop you from experimenting.
Alright, let's wrap things up with a calmer typeface. A fresh take on Future and other geometric typefaces. Comes with a lot of stylistic alternatives to many of its letters, so plenty of fun to be had playing around with it.
One More Thing...
An extensive set of free monospaced typefaces. I don't write code but if I did I would surely consider using this typeface.
You can grab Erik Spiekermann's famous typography book for free - couresy of Google Fonts. Scroll down a bit to snag the 23mb PDF file.
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