FontShop turned my attention to some very nice fonts that they’ve released in their June newsletter. I especially like this one called Mundo Sans, a very expressive humanist sans-serif. I’ve always found humanist fonts to be very attractive; they’re the most calligraphic of the sans-serifs, and yet they’re also usually the most legible.

Too bad it’s quite expensive at €702 ($1092) for 14 weights. Maybe I can convince my next client to pay for a license…

I’ve always had a thing for unreasonably heavy fonts. Just look at the logo at the top of the screen: I just couldn’t resist using the Ultra Black weight of Interstate!

One font that caught my eye a while ago was the Black Slabbath, a slab serif font with almost ridiculous proportions. A quote from the font’s distributor, YouWorkForThem:

There’s only one thing about this new typeface that isn’t colossally black: the razor-thin white space. It slices through and between geometric characters, creating a juxtaposition of contrasts and rhythms. The heaviest typeface in the world.

I especially like the lowercase letters. Some more pictures, featuring the designer Stefan Kjartansson, can be seen in this Flickr photoset.

There’s an interesting article up on AIGA about a massive artwork called Gastrotypographicalassemblage, created by typography guru Lou Dorfsman. After it was apparently discarded from its original location, the CBS building, the Center for Design Study has been trying to restore it to its original form.

EDIT: the Center for Design Study has a Flickr account with more photos.

Dave from Grain Edit.com uploaded some photos from a very nice Dutch typography book from the early 1960s.

A digitized version of this font, Annonce, is also available.

Go check out the work of Boris Schandert, a.k.a. Boodas, who combines graphic design with custom typefaces.

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