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Northern Block shares its love for the marker pen with new experimental typeface, Hubsch

Creative Boom

Background Hubsch includes seven weights with obliques and over 600 characters per style and is available as a variable font. It's built on the principles of modernist fonts that are fit for use with new technology, including a variable font version. Language support covers Western, Southern, and Central Europe.

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50 Best Design Blogs You Have To Read (2023 Update)

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That’s why Jeremiah Shoaf set up Typewolf , which shares examples of popular fonts in the wild. I Love Typography I Love Typography covers everything from typography and type history to making fonts, and everything in between, including printmaking to book history and occasionally calligraphy.

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35 Examples of Vintage and Retro Typography You Need to See

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These were then sold on to print shops, where a typesetter (yep, there were even typesetting back in the 1800s) who would set the fonts to allow for maximum legibility. Given that typewriters are now considered dated technology, fonts like American Typewriter (which is by no means the only typewriter-inspired typeface!) Fat Albert.

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Famous Pop Art Artists’ Everlasting Influence on Graphic Design

Creative Market

Because of the kitschy approach to art, which was meant to actually be his ode to modern culture, his Soup Cans were initially received by critics and the public as something offensive. Rosenquist even used the traditional Coca-Cola script font in the work to highlight the meshing of celebrity with pop culture and commercialism.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

Shillington

This unprecedented publication, authored by Jens Müller, brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Buy the book. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

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This unprecedented publication, authored by Jens Müller, brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940–1980, to examine how modernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity. Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman. Buy the book. Buy the book. Analog Algorithm. Buy the book.