Graf heads, meet the Letterheads
One of my favorite font foundries for the last few years has been Letterhead Fonts.
Letterheads is doing for signpainters what Handselecta is striving to do for graffiti writers. Collaborating with some of their industries most practiced talents, to create new fonts based on colloquial history.
The site certainly seems to cater to contemporary signmakers (almost more than graphic designers), which may account for some of the over-the-top heavily decorated treatments in the sample images. A lot of the type treatments are not exactly to my personal liking (some are a little too Nascar for me), but look past the sample images aand take a look at the actual typeface pages to see potential in these fonts that I believe are not found in many other places in the market. You'll be blown away with the unique qualities these typefaces present.
Awesome disply types for not just signage, but also garment graphics, identity and logo design, menu's. I can find infinite uses for some of these. These guys are not just offering great product, but they are preserving art in an artform that might die as the world moves more and more toward the digital. These styles are finding new life in vectors.
Need a new workhorse of a sans? Try Garner by Duncan Wilke.
A chunky round script ? Try Cosmic Cursive by Tom Kennedy.
A prety great gothic Stratford by Arthur Vanson)
Or peep Tonic by Tom Kennedy
Letterheads is doing for signpainters what Handselecta is striving to do for graffiti writers. Collaborating with some of their industries most practiced talents, to create new fonts based on colloquial history.
The site certainly seems to cater to contemporary signmakers (almost more than graphic designers), which may account for some of the over-the-top heavily decorated treatments in the sample images. A lot of the type treatments are not exactly to my personal liking (some are a little too Nascar for me), but look past the sample images aand take a look at the actual typeface pages to see potential in these fonts that I believe are not found in many other places in the market. You'll be blown away with the unique qualities these typefaces present.
Awesome disply types for not just signage, but also garment graphics, identity and logo design, menu's. I can find infinite uses for some of these. These guys are not just offering great product, but they are preserving art in an artform that might die as the world moves more and more toward the digital. These styles are finding new life in vectors.
Need a new workhorse of a sans? Try Garner by Duncan Wilke.
A chunky round script ? Try Cosmic Cursive by Tom Kennedy.
A prety great gothic Stratford by Arthur Vanson)
Or peep Tonic by Tom Kennedy
posted by Mene Oner at 2/05/2007 11:16:00 AM
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