As the title suggests, Petra Eisele, Annette Ludwig and Isabel Naegele’s lovely hardback book explores one of the most popular typefaces of all time: Futura. Created by German designer Paul Renner in 1927, the sans-serif font was based on geometric shapes with near-even weights. The book explores the typeface’s beginnings through to notable uses and insight behind the design via illustrations and essays by design …
Since everybody has been (understandably) freaking out about Netflix show “Stranger Things” and its excellent opening credits, it makes sense that the internet has lost it for this “Stranger Things” font generator. Self-explanatory and too easy to use, the generator makes any two words you choose in the show’s font. Whether you choose to type your own name, Barbara Holland or something nonsensical, it’s a …
Spector is just as magical as its James Bond-sounding name: it’s a small tool that captures fonts from the real world and imports them into InDesign for use on your own project. This is a working prototype made by Fiona O’Leary, for her graduation project at the Royal College of Art—and at the moment, can identify seven fonts. The fervor for this handy designer’s tool …
