Who doesn’t like options? Frontage (by Juri Zaech) is full of fun options: bulbs, outlines, shadows, bold … you can go crazy with this one. Love it!
I really like this retro font — it has a 1950s advertising feel and reminds me of all the awesome hand lettered signs around Charleston. Great news for all you font collectors out there: Holla is a free font!
Cyclone, a Hoefler & Frere-Jones masterpiece, makes me happy. It’s trendy, I won’t deny it, but also a classic inline font. Super versatile, it’s become one of my favorites.
I’m not exactly sure what The Battle of Charleston is all about. I’m envisioning a bunch of crazies dressed up in Confederate uniforms, spitting tobacco and drinking whisky. But I’m totally intrigued and have to go check this out.
This sign is beyond amazing. It’s new but looks like it has been around for ages. It’s hand-lettered, not made to look hand lettered. Every line is a different font. LOVE! It’s nailed to the side of a shack. I saw it and literally pulled the car off the side of the road so I could inspect it more closely.
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I’m in love with the classic yet oh so pretty new Madelinette font (by Crystal Kluge & Stuart Sandler). Wouldn’t it be perfect for typesetting a cook book or a menu? It’s lovely, feminine, and slightly fancy, while being totally legible.
I snapped this photo at the Farmer’s Market a few weekends ago. Love the type, colors. Everything.
//photo: Erika Firm
Our apricot trees are super bountiful this year, and the Mémé’s have taken to making lots and lots of jellies and jams. They keep asking me to make them some fancy labels … I think St. Lorie may be the perfect font. It reminds me a bit of French schoolgirl handwriting.
The studio looks like a hurricane blew through here. Multiple deadlines and last minute projects and juggling clients is wearing on me. I’m also getting ready for the NSS meetup in Brooklyn, but wanted to quickly post about the big sale on VEER. Everything is 25 percent off through June 10, 2011. As soon as things settle down I’m going to scoop up some new fonts, and QUANTA is on the list. What do you have your eye on?
There’s something dynamite (as in Napoleon Dynamite) about this cute and retro new font in my toolbox: POINTY. Reminds me of passing notes in class. Do kids still do that? Or is it all texting these days?
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Font Shop, you are killing me. Dangling fabulous fonts in front of my nose via email is some sort of sick torture that you enjoy, isn’t it? I was perfectly happy not knowing that Ambicase Modern existed. Now it’s all I can think about, and poor Santa is going to have to figure out a way to wrap up a font and get it down the chimney. If I can wait that long.
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This sweet, scripty girly font is usually not what I go for, but it has charmed me. I heart Geeoh HMK.
While researching for a logo design I was working on earlier this year I came across the font Buttermilk. It reminds me of puffy stickers and unicorns and rainbows … in a very (very) good way. I’ll be using it in some upcoming Delphine promos.
You may have noticed I have a thing for “E”s. I know it’s a bit on the narcissistic side (“E” is my nickname), but I love them. I have a collection of “E” and “e” signs in my studio and would love to add this cool one I spied on Etsy last night. It would be the largest one in my collection. I think I’d paint it Jade green, a shade just shy of emerald. I’ve been loving that color lately. (Okay, I’ve loved that color always). You can check out this vintage E sign in SalvageNation‘s Etsy shop.
UPDATE: SalvageNation has offered Delphine-Ephemera readers 10 percent off the puchase of the large letters like the one shown here. So you can buy me that “E.” Just joking. Sort of. Read their comment below for details.
I found this lovely handwriting font called Sudestada while researching for a fun project we’re working on here in the studio. I can’t reveal the project just yet … but it has to do with flowers.
