Bonnaroo
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Matthew Achterberg produced this really nice opening sequence for Bonnaroo, which is a music and arts festival in Manchester, TN. Very nice use of crafted type.
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25 Websites That Use Huge Typography
I have compiled together a showcase of websites that use huge typography. Using large fonts on your website can attract attention, and can provide a simple and easy to use interface. Plus you don’t have to worry about the text being readable (unless its in a completely crazy font). Please click on each image to view the website.
Giant Creative
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Ben Lind
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LHM Design
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For a Beautiful Web
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Get Finch
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Francesco Mugnai
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Visual Box
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Big Omaha
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Red Interactive Agency
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We Shoot Bottles
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Huge Inc
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Circa
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Agenda
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Take Shape
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June Cloud
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Post Typography
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Shadow Gem
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Eduardo de La Rocque
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Stack Overflow
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Alpha
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Davor Vaneijk
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Tanoshism
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Im Always Hungry
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Mad In Spain
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Artless
The Best Free Fonts of 2009
As this year comes to a close, we can look back and see that 2009 was a big year for typography. We saw more web designs with a focus on type, and there were some pretty amazing fonts released. Here are some of the best free fonts from this past year. A few of the fonts below were released at the end of 2008, but since they didn’t see much action until this year, I included them in the list.
Chunk
Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.
Calluna
Calluna supports a very wide range in languages and is a very complete OpenType typeface. Each font counts 723 glyphs.
Vegur
League Gothic
League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.
Sansation
Quicksand
Mentone
Mentone is a new general purpose typeface, an attempt at extending the line of the great sans-serifs of the previous century, Frutiger – Stone Sans – Myriad. The font has round corners and subtle chamfers, which are all but invisible at text sizes, but add an upbeat, irreverent expression at display sizes. The typeface is named after the beautiful bayside suburb of Melbourne, Australia, where the designer lives.
Serif Beta
Goudy Bookletter 1911
Based on Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle.
Titilium
Junction
Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds.
Sovba
Sovba is an amiable rounded sans-serif inspired by handwriting. Sovba is useful for a look that is uniquely casual, fresh and smooth. Sovba simplifies character forms down to their basic characteristics, and has a strong, silky smooth forward motion.
Showcase of Beautiful Typography in Web Design
Everybody loves a nice bit of typography. This year we have seen some absolutely stunning typographic layouts used in print, web and game design. Using typography in web design can really help to spice things up, so take a look through these beautiful examples of typography used in modern web design to help inspire you when it comes to producing your own typography based designs for the web.
There are many different styles that are used nowadays when it comes to typography in web design – a lot of them are put into place in minimalistic and simple designs such as ALGA New Yorks, Buddy Carrs Skateboards and Corking Designs website, all of which use large, bold lettering on a simplistic design which typically uses no more than 3 or 4 colors.
Huge lettering doesn’t stop there though: Gummisig’s portfolio uses a great combination of large type and highlighted links with colorful textured backgrounds, and Hull Digital use a large sketched effect heading which goes great with the other hand-drawn elements of the website and its overall ‘noisy’ background image. The effect now referred to as ‘the letterpress effect’ can also be seen in several designs, such as Alonso Creative Blog and Epic Event. Chris Spooner has a great showcase of the letterpress text effect used in web design, followed by a short tutorial on how to create this trendy effect yourself.
Jam Hot is just one of the many in this showcase that uses incredible Flash effects to produce awesome animated typography combined with great illustration – a real eye opener! Another great Flash-enabled website is JLern, who use beautiful effects that cause the entire page to rotate depending on where your mouse cursor is located.
Beautiful Typography in Web Design
