Font Fridays: Lettering and Type, from Princeton Architectural Press
For this week’s Font Friday, we’re very excited to give away a copy of Lettering & Type from Princeton Architectural Press.
Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces
Lettering & Type is a smart-but-not-dense guide to creating and bending letters to one’s will. More than just another pretty survey, it is a powerful how-to book full of relevant theory, history, explanatory diagrams, and exercises, ideal for anyone looking to move beyond existing typography to create original or customized letterforms. With a foreword by Ellen Lupton and hundreds of images and examples of work by historical and contemporary designers, artists, and illustrators, including Marian Bantjes, Stefan Sagmeister, Matthew Carter, Christoph Niemann, Steve Powers (ESPO), House Industries, Christian Schwartz, Margaret Kilgallen, James Victore, Abbott Miller, Sibylle Hagmann, Ed Fella, and more.
How it Works
Anyone can enter the contest by taking just a minute or two to do a good deed for Typedia. It could be something as simple as adding a release year, or uploading a specimen, or contributing some background information. Tell us your good deed in the comments to be entered in the contest. You can only enter once. You have until 10am EST Monday, January 18th to enter. After 10am, a winner will be randomly selected, and we’ll announce the winner here.
Good luck!
Update: And we have a winner! Indra Kupferschmid wins the copy of Lettering & Type! Many thanks to Princeton Architectural Press for sponsoring the giveaway. See you next week!
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Laura Fisher Jan 15, 2010
Added backgrounds for FF Archian and FF Chernobyl.
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Indra Kupferschmid Jan 15, 2010
Formata and Kaffeesatz deserved some update
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designfrontier Jan 15, 2010
Added Release Year for DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Serif
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Jake Jan 15, 2010
Added Background and Designers to the newly released Vitesse
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pixel8 Jan 15, 2010
<p>I’ve just added the website address, info on the particular foundry, a swf example of what the font looks like for <a href=“http://typedia.com/explore/typeface/algerian/”>Algerian</a></p> and update some info on one of the designers Phillip Kelly.
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HyperCreative Jan 15, 2010
Added some info to Quicksand and Public Gothic =)
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tealtan Jan 15, 2010
Added Country of Origin for Liberations Sans and Liberation Serif!
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riccard0 Jan 15, 2010
Added foundry to Karbon.
Updated Andron [Corpus] Publix and added Original Format & Distributor.
Added Distributor to Aster.
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jpcody Jan 15, 2010
Added year of origin to Chicle St.
Added year or origin and distributor to Egizio.
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Eric MacLeod Jan 16, 2010
I gave Antique Olive a background. I’m happy to contribute the background…I was very interested in what Eric Olson had to say about Antique Olive in 23:07 during this lecture at the Walker Art Center.
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giddy hill Jan 16, 2010
Added original format to Copperplate Gothic
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Christopher O'Donnell Jan 17, 2010
Added background to Simple.
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Florian Hardwig Jan 18, 2010
Added a few missing bits here and there, incl. Karbon, Kinesis, Jigsaw and Jeanne Moderno.
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paulrandall Jan 18, 2010
I added Type Designer, David Kindersley and the font Octavian
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Simon Robertson Jan 18, 2010
Added background to Stag Sans :-)
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Brendan Falkowski Jan 18, 2010
Added Distributor and Background to Public Gothic but fonts weren’t showing in Flash (because they’re PostScript maybe?) so no sample.
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santiago Jan 18, 2010
Just added Stilla EF, a beautiful fat italic and one of my personal favourites