February’s staff picks are compiled. (Short month you know, and I can’t believe we’re already halfway through March.) See the complete list of February Staff Picks, or read on for the highlights.
Before February’s over I thought we might as well publish January’s Staff Picks. Here’s the complete list, with selected pieces below.
We hope you enjoyed the typographic treat in your inbox this morning to kick off the second day of your new year. The FontShop team loves putting together this Best Type issue of our newsletter each year and 2012 was no exception. It’s always agonizing making the final list because we love so many of the fonts that make their way across our desk(tops) every 12 months. We try to showcase a variety of 2012 additions from our catalog, from runaway hits like FontFont’s FF Chartwell to brand spanking new releases like Monokrom’s Telefon.
Planning for the issue begins about two months before we unleash it on the world. We bring together our Sales & Support Team, our Marketing Team, and of course our Design Team and Type Experts to bring their favorites and review the 2012 typefaces. As we brainstormed categories this year, we began joking about how it felt like putting together a yearbook. We ran with this and love the retro yearbook style our designers brought to the final product.
Huge props always go to our amazing type experts, David Sudweeks and Yves Peters for creatively writing the issue based on our theme and categories. Who didn’t laugh at the line about Filmotype Kitten washing her hair?
We truly hope you have as much fun reading this issue as we did making it. How excited are you for a whole NEW YEAR of fonts though? What releases are you most looking forward to this year?
Is your 2013 off to a great start? Good! It’ll get even more awesome tomorrow when FontShop‘s Top Type of 2012 hits your inbox.
Make sure you’re signed up for our newsletter so you get your hands on this type lover’s electronic collector’s item first thing.
What to do while you wait? Take a look at our 2011 edition and place your bets on our new picks!
Goodbye December and 2012. Here are December’s staff picks. Happy new year.
“… the perfect font for a wedding invitation from Zelda and Link …”
“My pick for this month is American Uncial, inspired by Mayene’s Hobbit pinboard.”
November’s nearly gone, and of course that means December’s bound to come and go in a wink. While we’re still in November, Staff Picks are out, so let’s get right to them. Here’s the complete list, and we’ve highlighted a few below:
“The Great Pairs series made me fall in love with Benton.”
“So pretty and fun and flirty.”
October Staff Picks have been selected. Take a look through a few of the favorites below, or peruse the complete list. Now on to the picks.
“50s fridge fonts”
“For making elegant looking occupy signage”
September’s picks are in. See the complete list or just sit back and enjoy the following selections.
“That ‘w’ is ready to party.”
“’cause it has the coolest dingbats”
“All lasers, all the time”
Staff picks time again, which means summer’s cooling off and the kids are back to school. Here we take a look at a few of the outstanding typefaces selected, and of course for the complete list—and I must say, it’s a good one this month—see all August 2012 Staff Picks.
“All the Mars Curiousity space talk has me leaning toward Dalton Maag’s Elevon this month.”
“… a friendly slab”
“I just think it’s beautiful. It’s sturdy and elegant, and not too fussy.”
July Staff Picks are in! Staff Picks are FontShop’s monthly chance to recommend faces we like and to suggest ones we’d like to see get more use. Let’s take a closer look at a few of them now. See the complete list.
“If it’s good enough for the Ramones, then it’s good enough for me.”
“A useful font that’s great for text, and at larger sizes you see the interesting cuts each glyph has.”
We’re also on Pinterest now, where you can graphically browse through recent Staff Picks, as well as see all the type-related stuff we happen upon while traversing the web.
It’s Staff Picks time! The full FontList is here. And we’re glad to include our readers’ comments on what’s made the cut for Best of 2012 (so far).
“I like the mix of functionality and personality.”
“Who says display faces have to be bold or heavy?”
“An emphatic display font.”
And we got a number of responses on what’s been best so far this year, including:
Krul & Winco by Ramiro Espinoza of ReType, Trim by Göran Söderström of Letters from Sweden, and FF Tisa Sans by Mitja Miklavčič, published by FontFont. What more have you come across this year that’s been great? Keep ’em coming.
May Staff picks are in. Take a look at the complete list, or just these highlights.
“… for its sparkling, inky texture.”
“Elegant with a slight hint of ninja.”
“There are just a very few narrow serif typefaces that work well on both screen and paper, while having a very distinct yet non-obtrusive character.”
Hey, it’s Staff Picks time again; Our chance to pull out the new and dust off the old and tell you why we love all these clever, stately, familiar and unconventional faces. Here’s the whole list, and three in a bit more depth.
“The impossibility of it makes my eyes happy and my brain itchy.”
“I love Alda’s Bold Italic, especially in large sizes, with its distinct flat edges. Strong and sturdy, but still elegant—a font that a football player could use in a note asking his high school sweetheart to prom.”
“It’s the official typeface of TYPO.”
| Final | Final | Final | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | FF Tisa | 74 | Minion | 78 | FF Unit Slab | 81 | PMN Caecilia |
| 52 | Miller | 51 | Farnham | 51 | FF Spinoza | 44 | Lexia |
Our March Madness Faceoff continues Thursday at 1pm Pacific. Get your updated bracket with scheduled game times here. What’s March Madness?
On another note, March staff picks are in. Have a look at a few of them in detail or see the complete list; or both.
This one comes in three degrees of blackletter; the first dabbles and the last seems to fully commit.
“I could stare at the letterforms of Acta Poster Swashes all day; pretty dreamy, pretty bold, and just pretty.”
“An affordable script with pen-like strokes that’s easy to work with in any program.”
January Staff Picks are in. As you may know, our staff here at FontShop regularly brings a few of its lesser-known offerings to the fore for a discussion on what makes great type great. Here are a few of the selections followed by their letters of recommendation.
“I dig the silhouettes it makes with short strings in larger sizes. In longer paragraphs in smaller sizes it acts almost like an optical illusion – jumbled until you make out the first word or two.”
“Fun Script. Reminds me of practicing my letters in school and trying to make them perfect.”
