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Category Typography and Fonts

Typography, type and fonts are an essential part of any design. These articles focus on characteristics for typography in wayfinding and sign design.

Typography for your iPhone & iPod touch

A review of the great and addictive Font Game by ilovetypography and reviews of typography related app available for your iPhone / iPod Touch.

Typography: Citroën rebrand with custom corporate typeface

Citroën introduced a rebrand for their visual communication. With a new logo and custom corporate typeface are they ready to beat the financial crisis…? The typeface is a combination between Futura and Gill Sans which makes it an attractive typeface. Let me know what you think!

Font Series: Arial is everywhere

designworkplan font series: examples of Arial used in the build environment.

Review: WhatTheFont for iPhone

WhatTheFont is released for iPhone & iPod Touch users, you can shoot and photo anywhere and use this iPhone App to find out what font you are looking at. The WhatTheFont iPhone App uses the myFonts engine to recongize a font and allows you to buy the font from the shop. Read the review and find out if you want to use this iPhone App.

Dutch government introduces corporate typeface

On Thursday the 13th of November the Dutch government introduced a custom typeface designed by Peter Verheul. The Rijksoverheid typeface will function as the bread letter of the government and all of its visual communications. Releasing this typeface is part of the project 1 Logo which will bring the Dutch government 1 logo and 1 identity.

Font Series: Rotis is everywhere

The font family Rotis (by Olt Aicher) is everywhere to be found. Designed in 1989 the type has a very distinctive look and feel with a high legibility. You can easily spot this type by taking a closer look at the letters ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘s’ and more. Take a look at this photo showcase of Font Family Rotis.

Museo Sans Released!

Jos Buivenga released Museo Sans, a fabulous designed sans font family which is available in ten variations. Starting at $0,- this is a low cost high quality sans font which can be used in various fields of designs & visual communications.

Font Series: FF Meta is everywhere

In this font series I have taken photos of billboards, bottles, books, cars, signage and more where the wonderful typeface FF Meta is used. You can see the power of the Meta Font Family displayed in many different ways, take a look around and tell me.. did you have your Meta today?

WTF: April 2008, The Winners!

The answer to the popular WhatTheFont Type contest, did you win? Thank you for participating in this great font contest!

WTF: What the Font? Raad en win!

Doe mee met deze lettertype wedstrijd ter promotie van het Nederlands ontworpen lettertype en maak kans op een laser-gegraveerde naamplaat. Inschrijving sluit woensdag 24 april om 24:00.