You Can't Miss: Free Fonts and Typography galore

Fonts are my thing. I feel like I have complete control over a project just by picking the right type. If I were to develop a personal style, it would definitely be typography based. Mostly because I'm a pansy at Illustrator and Photoshop. My favorite tool in Illustrator out of all the amazing things you can do with that program: create outlines. Boom. Original font.

I found this site, Lost Type, a little while ago while I was looking for some fresh fonts for my marketing work at my job. They had every kind of type I had in my head. And the best part? You can download for free. It's based on a pay-what-you-want model and all the money goes directly to the designer of the font. Pretty neat. So if you're looking for something a little different, but still keeping in touch with current trends, Lost Type fulfills your needs.

From Grain Edit this week, they had an awesome showcase of designer Jude Landry's work. And it's based a lot on, you guessed it, typography. I agree with the blogpost as it comments on Landry's thoughtfulness on each design. However, you can still pick up on a consistent, clean visual style throughout each piece. I love the layers of the first piece. I was so caught up studying the type that I didn't even notice the illustrations of the apple and serpent at first. Then I was like whoa...this dude is cool. The details of all the designs are ridiculous, but not overwhelming. That's the kind of style I hope to develop in this class. Thoughtful, but not crazy. Might be hard though since I pride myself on being mad.

The aesthetic appeal of this to me is unreal.