Posts Tagged ‘Design’
Font Feature: Cooper Black
The last font we are featuring this week is:
Cooper Black is a child of the roaring 20′s. Typographer Oswald Bruce Cooper designed this font in 1921, Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type foundry released it in 1922. Cooper Black is a rather versatile font and has enjoyed a lot of use in popular culture and product packaging.
Cooper Black is currently sold through Linotype and can’t be found for free on-line. But, never fear! If you are drawn to Cooper Black for your font needs and have Microsoft Office installed on your computer, the font is included.
Font Feature: Museo Slab
And here is #4 in our Font Feature, Museo Slab. This font is from Jos Buivenga’s foundry, exljibris. Museo Slab rounds out the geometric Museo family of fonts with a nice slab serif that complements with the Museo Sans.
P.S. – We should mention, the fonts we’ve featured so far, except for Helvetica, have at least one weight that is free to try! Websites offering the downloads are linked to in each post. As for Helvetica, it is owned by Linotype and the various iterations of the popular font can be purchased. There are, however, a few free offerings out there that are riffs on Helvetica, such as Coolvetica Regular.
Font Feature: Val
#3 in our Font Feature this week is:
Val is a newer font, released in July of 2009 by Bulgarian designer Svetoslav Simov through his digital type foundry, FontFabric. The simplified, bold letter forms make Val a good font for large graphics, logos, etc. There is also a stencil form of Val, released May of 2010. Val and Val Stencil are both available free of charge on the FontFabric website.
Font Feature: League Gothic
Font #2 in our Font Feature this week:
Another sans-serif like Helvetica, League Gothic is an adaptation of an earlier American Gothic typeface, Alternate Gothic No. 1, designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1903 for the American Typefounders Company. The League of Moveable Type has released League Gothic as one of the many open-source fonts that they host. In general, the American Gothic family is highly legible, making them useful for titles, signs, and logos.
Font Feature: Helvetica
This week we are going to take some time to fill you in on our favorite fonts here at Skytemple and tell you a little about them. Our first font is:
Helvetica is a well-loved in the design world. Developed in 1957 by the Swiss designers Max Miedinger and Edüard Hoffmann, Helvetica is a clean, modern, extremely legible sans-serif typeface. It is used by countless businesses and organizations to disseminate their messages to the public, including the US government (take notice of the text on your next income tax form). This seeming king of typography is almost omnipresent in the modern world, so much so that it received some sizable recognition when it turned 50 in 2007. There is even a documentary about the development and proliferation of Helvetica as well as the effect and psychology of typography in everyday life.
