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The Sketchnote Typeface. The Sketchnote Typeface was born of necessity: veteran designer and illustrator Mike Rohde needed a series of hand-drawn fonts to produce his recent book, The Sketchnote Handbook (2012, Peachpit Press). Because of its origin, the typeface was designed to be practical, to convey the human character and quirks of Rohde’s normal handwriting and unique hand-drawn lettering with the benefits inherent in digital fonts. More… Sketchnote Square is a bold, somewhat compressed headline type that complements the Sketchnote Text fonts. Drawn instead of written, the characters in Square have neat little happenstance voids within the strokes. The texture of Sketchnote is the result of actual ink-spread on paper, captured in scans of the written letterforms and left intact during production to preserve that feeling.

Sketchnote Square is best used at larger sizes for headlines, titles, packaging, etc. Gentona. 23:27 - YOUR USER PROFILE IS A BATTLEGROUND™ - 00:08. 30 of the most beautiful typeface designs released last month (April) Anyone who’s tried their hand at designing a typeface will know it’s a wildly difficult process, and to actually come out at the end with something attractive takes an extreme amount of skill, taste and patience.

Type design isn’t for everyone, but typography is, and nearly every designer works with it every day. This is exactly why Type Release creator Sean Mitchell is here to share with you a list of 32 beautiful typefaces, all of which were released over the last month. See his findings from April, only on TNW: Wordshape: Vaud A neutral, yet formally nuanced grotesk typeface. Latinotype: Trend Hand Made A typeface made of layers, taking as a basis a sans and a slab font, Trend is trending. Lineto: LL Circular Strikes a balance between conceptual rigour, skilled workmanship and measured idiosyncrasy, resulting in a no-nonsense sans-serif text font with unmistakable character yet universal appeal.

HVD Fonts: Mikado Intended to be used everywhere where a pleasant feeling should be conveyed. Display Fonts ~ Mr Chalk by HypeForType. ABOUT: Mr Chalk is a brand new typeface designed to give a 100% chalk feel. The reason the chalk feel is so authentic is because the original sketches were actually drawn in chalk, taken into illustrator, retraced and then edited carefully in Fontlab. If you're after a chalk typeface with an authentic feel, then Mr Chalk is the one for you. DOWNLOAD FORMAT: TrueType (TTF) file compatible with Mac & Windows. LANGUAGES SUPPORTED: Albanian, Basque, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Manx, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Oromo, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese FOUNDRY: Thinkdust Mr Chalk Fonts > Display For designer and art director Alex Haigh, an early obsession with type was the first clue that letters would take a leading role among his design devotions.

/HypeForType Alex Haigh. Display Fonts ~ Bahn Pro FAMILY by PF MARTINI. The Sketchnote Typeface. Soto. Wordshape. Substance. Buy & Freely Download Cool Fonts & Typefaces | HypeForType. Sys 2.0™ Eco Coding. Lucida Sans Typewriter. Realist. Realist is a straightforward typeface that speaks in a clear voice without appearing stern. It has so far been used for demanding editorial and corporate design, as well as product design and a film poster.

It works for all expressions where the message plays the leading role. Realist is flexible in weight and style (16 fonts), and next to the standard typographic forms Realist comes with alternates, various figure sets, sets of arrows, and ornaments. Realist is furthermore available as Realist Narrow and Realist Wide More… Realist was chosen by Typographica as one of the Favorite Typefaces of 2011. Helia. Aleo free font. Download the 105 best free fonts | Typography. In this freshly updated free fonts for designers post, we bring you the world's best free fonts.

We've filtered out the diamonds from the thousands of less perfectly designed free fonts available online, for you to use in your designs and illustrations. Get Adobe Creative Cloud now This list represents the 55 best free fonts we've found in eight categories. You can use the drop-down menu at the top of the page, or the boxout, right, to jump to the section you want. Don't forget, we have many other articles covering specialist font types including handwriting fonts, kids' fonts, cursive fonts, beautiful fonts, web fonts, professional fonts and more. Most of the typeface collections listed here can be used in your projects for free, but please be sure to check the terms. Serif fonts 01. This free serif display font takes inspiration from the late 18th century European Enlightenment and the work type designer John Baskerville. 02.

Lora is a free font that has its roots in calligraphy. 03. 100 Greatest Free Fonts Collection for 2013. Korpo Sans. Core Sans NR. Nanami. Core Sans NR.