Jilly Jack Designs has a new type crush!

This lovely is Mandevilla created by Laura Worthington. It has a casual, yet special feel with its rounded edges and flowing ascenders and descenders. You can read more about this new typeface at myfonts.com.

Take care!

Jill

Jilly Jack's Typography Tuesday

Hello friends! Here is my font find for Typography Tuesday. Sketchetik is designed by Ossi Gustafson and published by Hiekka Graphics. It's a sort of sketch version of Helvetica. It reminds me back in the day when we had to hand letter our type, you know before computers. Well maybe you don't. Anyway, I really enjoy this face and I thought you might too.

Another thing I recently discovered, now you have the "option" to buy two separate licenses, one for print and one for web use of a font. Is this new or have I been living under a rock? Why not just have one license and charge appropriately? Chances are if I print it, I'll post it too. What are your thoughts on this?

Take care,
Jill

Jilly Jack's Typography Tuesday

I wanted to share this font that I just saw on MyFonts.com, It's called Rooney. It's designed and published by Jan Fromm. I love it because it feels friendly to me. It's a serif that doesn't feel too formal, it has weight and presence. It comes in six weights, I prefer the light, medium and bold. I plan to add Rooney to my font collection asap!

What are your thoughts on the face, love it, hate it? I'd love to know.

Take care,
Jill

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Narziss Swirls

I love the curls and swirls of the serifs on this type. Of course you would need to use it fairly large so they wouldn't get lost. But hey that works for me. It's elegant and light-hearted, formal and informal. I love that about it.

Narziss Swirls is a font designed by Hubert Jocham Type, the personal foundry of Hubert Jocham, started in 2007. Read more about Hubert Jocham and purchase the type from MyFonts.com

Have a great day!
Jill

New Typface

I just found a great new typeface on myfonts called Museo Slab. It was designed by Jos Buivenga in 2009 and is published by exljbris. I just like it's simple and friendly feel. I am adding it to my list of must purchase fonts. Museo would work great in some new designs I have in my head.

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Featured Font

An oldie, but a goodie, Century Schoolbook is one of my favorite serif fonts. Sorry, but I'm a bit of a graphic design and typography geek. I love the uppercase and lowercase Qs. You don't get to use them very much. This font has the perfect balance of thick and thin and hard and soft contrast. It's a great all around, easy-to-read font. Read more about the font here.

Typographic History

I'm putting this book on my list of must haves. If you love typography, you'll want it as well. Nineteenth-Century American Designers and Engravers of Type. by William E. Loy (edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe) is now available for purchase at Oak Knoll Press. The book not only looks at American typefaces during the nineteenth century, but profiles the designers behind them.

Fun font of the day

This font is one that I discovered about 6 months ago. It is fun and friendly, which is pretty much my design aesthetic. Of course you should use it sparingly, it's not the easiest read and you'll have to kern the you-know-what out of it. But it's fun and light-hearted. Find it here.