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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Typeface Foundaries

The 2 Rebel typeface foundry is quite different from the usual typefaces that I'm used to seeing on my PC. Almost all of their typefaces are a little hard to read and grungy, but that is what makes them so interesting. Some of them seem to be strikingly similar though; specifically their serif typefaces. Their typefaces Troiminut, Message, Maria's Font, and Flembo Text are my favorites because they all seem to be easy to read and they are pleasing to the eye. I am surprised by how many designers are actually a part of this foundry.




Crazy Diamond Design is definitely not what I expected to be. The name made me visualize modern, elaborate typefaces, so when I looked and saw that the site was filled with historical typefaces like wizard runes I was a little surprised. Of course some of these are a little difficult to read, but the easiest to read (and also my favorites) are



Italic Hand



Written Square Capitals OT Pack



and 17th Century Print OT Pack.






Veer really captured my interests with the wide range of typefaces they have available. They range from anywhere between Art Deco to Fun. Just the fact that they have so many to choose from is what makes this foundry one of my favorites. Also, their site is presented in a clean and easy to use way that makes me feel like I really want to explore. I also like that they use the sentence "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz" instead of the usual fox one. Their typeface Arlt Complete is definitely one of my favorites that I found.