Type Lost &Foundry
I’m Delve Withrington, a type designer and artist. See/buy my typefaces at: Delve Fonts.
And check out my mixed media/ assemblage art as well.
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Only Six Days left until Christmas!
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Collection of Starry Night/Space photography. Go here for more, along with links to the very talented photographers to which these photographs...
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(via timefighter, sltwtrkisses)
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Star Trek
by Jan Skácelík
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Amper-Sand. Literally.
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Typeverything.com - TypoCans by Pavel Kulinsky.
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Typeverything.com - Click me by Marian Bantjes
Helfa
I’m proud to announce that my latest typeface, Helfa is now available and you can get the regular and italic fonts for free (details below).
Helfa is a new, original typeface that has been in the making over the course of the last four years. The original impetus for Helfa was in challenging myself to create a typeface that I could rely on for use in my own graphic design work. So I set out to design something that felt just right.
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Funding New Fonts
Thoughts on the recent trend of microfunding the development of new typefaces
Traditionally there have been basically two ways to fund the development of a new typeface: Externally, as a commision, wherein a client pays a designer or foundry to create a new typeface. Or internally, as a speculative project self-financed by a designer or foundry (usually in the form of time away from paid projects) to finance the design. Of course, there are variations within both of those funding models: funding from grants, private art patrons, the designer as employee, perhaps even a government contract could be considered a variation of it.
Now, with the advent of microfunding websites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, crowdsourcing as a means of funding creative projects is gaining popularity.
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An excellent article on contemporary type design by Paola Antonelli a critic and Curator for NY MoMA
“…Font design might just be the most advanced form of design existing today.” —Paola Antonelli
Cortina by Joachim Müller-Lancé
Last week, after some work by Joachim Müller-Lancé and I that took a little over a month to complete, Cortina became available once again. This is the first of several of his typefaces that were a part of the TypeBox foundry to be updated and re-released in OpenType format through my foundry, Delve Fonts.
When it first came to my attention late last year that these fonts Joachim did while he was with TypeBox were no longer available, I thought it was a real loss and talked to him about getting them out there again.
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An excellent overview of web fonts given by Jeff Veen of Typekit in this video interview.
Negative Width = Positive Outcome
Among the type services I offer at Delve Fonts is Quality Assurance Testing of font data. Recently as part of some tests for a client, I discovered a problem and a solution I’d like to share.
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via stewf:
Font Aid IV’s “Coming Together” font is now available. It costs $20 and the proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders in support of their continuing efforts in Haiti. Nearly 400 type and graphic designers submitted ampersand designs for the project.
I am proud to announce that the newest Delve Fonts typeface, Rieven Uncial, by Steven Skaggs has received the “Certificate of Excellence in Type Design” in the TDC2 2010 competition.
More versatile than traditional uncials, Rieven Uncial tastefully blends roman and uncial characteristics infusing text with the flavor of an uncial without sacrificing readability in extended settings. Rieven Uncial will soon be available for purchase at Delve Fonts and for use on the web via Typekit.
