Legendaria
Manuel Corradine from Bogota, Colombia, has given us some fine fonts in the past, such as the eclectic and elegant Mussica and the spontaneous Corradine Handwriting. But Legendaria is his biggest coup so far, his pièce de résistance, his Nec plus ultra. Legendaria is a sophisticated connected script font that [...]

It is very rare that a mediocre logo is a cause for re-branding. Yet, it still happens sometimes… a young company starting out in business, makes a logo in-house and goes ahead with it. A few years later they feel the need to conform to the market realities and it becomes the reason for [...]

Based in Siberia, Natalia Vasilyeva is one of the most prolific designers contributing to Moscow’s ParaType foundry. Her latest offering is Orbi, a type system with a wide array of styles. Orbi consists of ten roman and italic faces of different proportions and weights and three decorative calligraphic fonts. To add a romantic and/or classical touch to your [...]

So often we can hear from our clients that silly “like – dislike”. Almost everyone is trying to show their sense of style creating design for their company. So what is that sense of style?Let us consider some examples that would give us clarity of the difference between a professional sense of [...]

In typography, roman type has two principal meanings, both stemming from the stylistic origin of text typefaces from inscriptional capitals used in ancient Rome:

one of the major families of traditional typefaces as a synonym for serifor antiqua fonts;

the “regular” or up right counterpart of an italic or oblique typeface, regardless of whether the type design is seriffed or a sans serif.

Popular roman styles include Bembo, Baskerville, Caslon, Bodoni, Times New Roman [...]

The word “Grotesque”, or “Grotesk” in German, is also frequently used as a synonym for sans-serif in typography. At other times, it is used (along with “Neo-Grotesque”, “Humanist”, “Lineal”, and “Geometric”) to describe a particular style or subset of sans-serif typefaces. The origin of this association can be traced back to English typefounder William Thorowgood, who first introduced [...]