This is not helping my H&FJ addiction.
One of Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ finest emails: Four Techniques for Combining Fonts.
Revised Font Stack »
A Way Back takes a fresh look at default font stack, first citing statistics about pre-installed fonts, then making recommendations for popular sites like Yahoo and Facebook.
The venerable typography blog, I Love Typography, has released a list of their favorite fonts for 2009. The post is designed a bit like Boston.com’s The Big Picture, with big, beautiful samples of last year’s greatest typefaces. Of note, I definitely plan on picking up a copy of Trilby soon, and shown above is HFJ’s Sentinel, probably my #1 pick for best new font in ‘09.
“You saw me, in my humble proportions, and said “No, not big enough.” Undoubtedly, a few mouse-clicks later, your most talented technician had me soaring to new cap-heights. Let me never come back down.”
Public Gothic is a new gothic font by Antrepo with 4 fantastic variations, and it’s free.
