This is an interesting strategy. Jos Buivenga is a type designer producing high quality, fully-featured fonts and releasing them for free through his website. Perhaps realising the seemingly universal attitude that it’s perfectly OK to steal fonts, rather than accepting that they are licensed software products, he allows you to download his fonts with no restriction and just providing an option to donate through Paypal. I don’t know what the solution is to software and digital media piracy, but I’m not sure the honour system is the right way to go about it. I hope Jos Buivenga gets lots of donations, because the quality of his work deserves reward.

I’m particularly liking Fertigo. I think I can make use of that at work (and yes, we will donate):

And I just like this image:

Now this is what I call a character set. Swissmiss pointed me at this incredible new typeface by Alejandro Paul, on Veer. I have a strong urge to buy it just to play at typing things and seeing the ligatures appear. I mean, some of these ligatures are whole words!

Yes, as usual, on Flickr. Ah well, it’s worth looking for the nice type.

Since I don’t have a links page I should make posts about sites I read more often. I Love Typography is one. There are some great articles on here, some for beginners, most of interest to experts. I particularly like this one, 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography, and this one made me laugh, Typoholism. An Addict’s Tale (image from the latter at right).

Another Flickr set! I might have to create a whole category for Stuff That Exists On Flickr at this rate.

This is a collection of scans of The Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill posted by Jason on Graphicology

With the note from the author of ‘Fuck Comic Sans’, the free typeface Comic Serif is introduced. To me it looks like a bouncy version of Rockwell, and is a hell of a lot nicer than Comic Sans.

I always thought that the names of the shuttles was written in Helvetica, at the very least screened on in some regular manner. Looking at this image from airliners.net, I see that it looks hand-painted, and after all these years of patching and repainting, the lettering looks decidedly wonky.