Aug
21
2010
“Over the highways and byways the pilgrim goes aflame with the name of my small black rose.” Hey, I think I went to an Irish Pub called the Black Rose in Boston once or twice .. Well, this font has nothing to do with that, but it is a nice face with some interesting flair. A sort of swashy hand drawn cursive flow, maybe sort of pirate-like I would say. (that bar was down by the water) I could see this carved into the name plaque of a pirate ship. Black Rose TTF is from prolific freeware font creator Bright Ideas. Download Black Rose!

Aug
20
2010
Twenty Dee Bee .. 20DB .. a nice retro-flavored OTF type face from Russian designer Jovanny Lemonad (Ivan Gladkikh). Sort of Art Deco, 20DB is legible and ideal for headlines, titles, display use (i can see it working nicely on posters). It feels a little like Monotypes Broadway typeface, but a little less frilly and deco-ish, a bit more angled and “russian” feeling to me! (does that make sense?) Download 20db OTF and give it a whirl.

Aug
19
2010
Horst Roman Gothic from Cincinnati, Ohio based logo and type designer Christopher Horst “Horst is a world renowned logo designer, known best in the heavy metal community. He is most versed in, but by no means limited to metal, and he is eager to help you with all your text-based needs.” This one has a nice metal-edge with a gothic feel. Not a full upper lower case setup, but enough letters to set a headline or band name, etc. Check it out! Download Horst Roman Gothic TTF.

Aug
18
2010
A Cyber Techy Circuit Techno face .. I dig this stuff. From Illustrator/Designer Galdin Ooten in Brazil. Looking for a cool computer circuit board looking font for a logo or headline? Park Tech is a great one to keep in mind – check out some of his great illustrations on his website! Download Park Tech TTF.

Aug
17
2010
Antique typefaces can be fun, they are the origin of most of what we know today – the history of all our letterforms, but sometimes they are so hard to read and rough and dirty it makes you wonder how we got to where we are today. For a taste of some old time letter flavor, Powell Antique from prolific German shareware type designer Dieter Steffmann is a good one to choose. Download Powell Antique TTF.

Aug
12
2010
Konstata is a cool one from fresh new german foundry fontomtype, and I can’t really explain it as well as it’s creator can, so here is that .. “Konstata is really a niche font for special use. Created for stencil use, Konstata features a set of only 10 different elements (aka your templates) out of which you can compose the complete typeface. Therefore it borders between being somewhat grungy, modular and classic and greatly saves space in your backpack when stenciling. Konstata is supposed to be stenciled with closed counters — which is possible due to the modular system. In fact there are no bridges in it at all. It consists of a complete set of unicase letters — numerals are ment to be done als roman numbers, german umlaute are included as ue (ä), oe (ö), ae (ä) and ss (ß). Any medium will do the job but I suggest using fast drying paint like Placka, Edding or Montana 94 spray-paint to speed up the process of composing all elements. On the keyboard you will find all 10 elements on the position of numerals (0−9); a set of fully composed characters on the position of lowercase letters (a-z incl. ü, ö, ä, ß); and every letter composed into the lowest possible number of parts (maximal two, often only one) at the position of capital letters.” Download Konstata TTF.

Aug
11
2010
Peabrain is a super-techy experimental cutting edge type deal from Nick Jones in the UK. Maybe not the most legible of typefaces, but I guess in the future that won’t matter. Download the peabrain truetype font.
