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14 fonts to fall in love with: trending typefaces that designers adore

Creative Boom

The weights variation from Hairline to Super with corresponding italics form a coherent and versatile family, making it suitable for book design, poster design, branding, signage systems and more. This is a strongly contrasted, edgy, blazing serif typeface suitable for display purposes on screens and in print.

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Patrick Thomas & his PULP silkscreen prints respond to the era of "truth decay"

Type room

A-Z presents , exhibition , Patrick Thomas , talk , Berlin , fake news , truth , artivism , silkscreen , silkscreening prints , newspaper , printing. Between 2004–05 he was Graphic Research Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University and since October 2013 he is a professor of visual communication at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

Throughout the 1820s, publishers began covering annuals in a sort of wrapping paper, printed with minimal text, enough to identify the volume—these were referred to as “dust jackets”. He requested that the publisher print the title of his latest book, The Hunting of the Snark, on the spine of the “paper wrapper”.

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“Animal Farm” & the Evolution of the Dust Jacket

Thinking Design

Throughout the 1820s, publishers began covering annuals in a sort of wrapping paper, printed with minimal text, enough to identify the volume—these were referred to as “dust jackets”. He requested that the publisher print the title of his latest book, The Hunting of the Snark, on the spine of the “paper wrapper”.

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The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills

Inkbot Design

Perfect for beginners, it introduces universally applicable design concepts like proximity, alignment, contrast, scale, visual hierarchy and more across four concise chapters. With practical applications for print and digital media, mini-exercises let you put lessons into practice as you go.

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Uncharacteristic Characters

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

I often use printed maps as an example of how sophisticated typography can educate users about how something works, without the need to refer people elsewhere for instructions. ” These are some of my drawings from 2005, to explore how the basic design might develop. The typographic family tree is forever growing.