For this month’s competition we have three copies of the fantastic 269 page “Business Cards 2: More Ways of Saying Hello” book. Between the 10th & 17th of March, we will pick three lucky winners at random from twitter. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning…

one of these typetastic treats, is to click below and tweet…

FOR FONTS SAKE, Give Me That Letterific Lovin! @hypefortype

We will announce the winners on the 19th of March, and good luck to everyone involved, this competition is a global competition so feel free to enter wherever you are. The book itself along with postage and packaging is all paid for, best of luck!



For a chance to win, just tweet…

FOR FONTS SAKE, Give Me That Letterific Lovin! @hypefortype

Here’s a brand new font addition that recently landed on our doormat, and what a cracker it is! FR Pasta Mono was designed by Faber font foundry, and comes in 4 different weights. FR Pasta Mono family is an offspring of the well received free font FR Pasta Simpla (which can be download form here.

FR Pasta Mono family is a monospaced, tall typeface capable to set playful, elegant and catching titles and displays. It compress 4 style: Mono, Decor, Decor Black and Extrude. Use it anytime, anywhere and be sure your message will reach its audience – be sure you use it in big size. FR Pasta Mono family comes with a few OpenType features like case fractions and extended ligature set as well as support for many languages (Nordic, Icelandic, West and Eastern European, Turkish etc.).

Type. A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, 1628-1900

Two great books from Taschen, Vol.1 is currently on sale, Vol.2 goes on sale next month…

This exuberant selection of typographic fonts and styles traces the modern evolution of the printed letter, reproducing pages from exquisitely designed catalogs showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Also included are borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations, and many spectacular examples of their use. Victorian fonts, spectacular in their complexity, are accorded a prominent place. In addition, examples from lithography and letters by inscription carvers and calligraphers are also included and described.

Featuring works by type designers William Caslon, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Paul Renner, Jan Tschichold, A. M. Cassandre, Aldo Novarese, and Adrian Frutiger.

View the book Volume 1

View the book Volume 2

Posted by: Jeff Knowles – RS

One for the typoholic, an absolute treat of a bookmark… LoveHelvetica

Brilliant type themed microsite from Pentagram, entitled What Type Are You.

It determine exactly what font represents you as an individual. Apparently… we’re Cooper Black Italic. So the big question is… What Type Are You?

A week-long programme of typographic study in London for recent graduates and professionals. Alongside live projects run by Fraser Muggeridge, the school will host talks, seminars and tutorials from daily visiting practitioners:

Sara De Bondt, Paul Elliman, Ken Garland, Jeff Knowles
(Research Studios), David Pearson, Robert Sollis (Europa).

20 places are available for each week:
5–9 July 2010
12–16 July 2010

For more information visit Typography Summer School

Posted by: Jeff Knowles – RS

Tyler Thompson has got pretty fed up with the design of boarding passes, or lack of design, so has had a bash himself. You can see more of the designs at his dedicated Boarding Pass/Fail website

If you fancy designing one yourself you can submit your own attempts to his website.

You can already see a range of designs, some of which are ‘ideal world’ designs, some are working with the existing limitations of boarding passes, of which thermal printing is one of them.

Posted by: Jeff Knowles – RS

Brevia is a beautiful new font family from Hannes von Dohren. More preview are available on the homepage.

Brevia is a soft sans serif type family consisting of seven weights plus matching italics. The fonts have a hint of a brushed feeling and come across casual and friendly. Nevertheless Brevia’s architecture is straight, making it perfect for longer texts. Because of its big x-height, it also performs nicely in very small sizes. Brevia’s heavier weights are slightly more curved and have an eye-catching appearance. They unfold their strength especially in bigger sizes. This contemporary type family is intended to be used in applications like: Cosmetics, Service, Food and Advertising – basically everywhere where a pleasant feeling should be conveyed. Brevia is equipped for highly professional use. The OpenType fonts have an extended character set to support Central and Eastern European as well as Western European languages.

One of the most impressive student projects, I have ever seen. Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases. Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in. And the clou is: It does all that on an interactive table, using tangible objects to navigate and control actions, so the workflow is easy to understand.

We understand how busy people are these days, and time is precious. As you may well know, we are currently working on a brand new site to make these matters, a thing of the past.

However, if you are in a rush before this, it may well be worth taking a look at our Cargo Collective account. It’s probably the most simple and easy to use tool to find exactly what you are looking for.