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Book Review: How to Create Typefaces
[Call for Entries: The HOW Logo Design Awards] Tipo e’s How to Create Typefaces: from sketch to screen is an excellent primer on type design, albeit a little primer. Unlike other books on type and type...
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Free Font Friday: Kitten
Enter before October 30th, 2017! We might send you to HOW Design Live 2018! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! We are constantly browsing the web to...
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Free Font Friday: Margem
Enter before November 20th, 2017! We might just send you to HOW Design Live 2018! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! We are constantly browsing the web...
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Parakeet’s Wonderful Plumage of Icons, Emojis & More
Most designers are generalists, making small and large designs across various mediums—logos, business cards, brochures, letterhead, posters, signage, websites, apps, etc. You name it, a designer can do...
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Free Font Friday: Neoneon
Enter before November 20th, 2017! We might just send you to HOW Design Live 2018! Welcome to Free Font of the Week, where we showcase our favorite free font finds! We are constantly browsing the web...
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Embracing Event-Specific Type in Sports Design
Event platforms require far more than just a logo. Far more. That includes type. “There are really a lot of moving parts,” says Bill Frederick, principal and creative director of New Jersey-based...
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Future Fonts on the Future of Fonts
As a type designer, what if you had an idea for a typeface, and had begun experimenting with its design, but didn’t have the resources to continue the work? Future Fonts could help with that. Or as a...
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An Interview with Adam Ladd, Fresh Off Making the HOW 100
Adam Ladd has worked in branding, art direction, and magazine layout, and along the way, he happened to see and use type—a lot. Having been the art director and designer for both HOW and Print...
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Pressing On: Keeping Letterpress Alive
Design language is global. Get recognized today. What is letterpress? Who uses it today? And who will use letterpress in ten, twenty, forty years? Those are just some of the questions that co-directors...
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Who Needs Helvetica Now?
Helvetica has been a typographic workhorse for decades, seemingly everywhere as documented in Gary Hustwit’s 2007 movie. The font looks and feels timeless, but it hasn’t seen a major update since Neue...
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