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Typographic inspiration for the week-end

Posted: 25 May 2013 03:38 PM PDT

To relax a little on the week-end, lay back and check out a little typographic inspiration. If you like typography, make sure to check our Typography Daily blog.

Font of the week: Nexa Slab

Released during the week, Nexa Slab is a geometric slab serif font whose design is based on the already popular best-seller Nexa.

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The anatomy of type

A book exploring in-depth one hundred modern and traditional typefaces. The authors, Stephen Coles and Erik Spiekermann, are well-known and respected figures in the world of typography, their expertise will definitely teach you a lot.

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10 great free monospaced fonts for programming

An article that looks at the best fonts to use for coders and programmers.

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Isadora

A gorgeous calligraphic font created by Daniel Barba.

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Wedding anniversary invitation

A beautiful invitation printed for Allen and Anita’s 50th anniversary.

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Melipilla

A lovely and friendly-looking font created for the province of Melipilla in Chile by Ivonne Robledo.

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Global warming

I didn’t really get the meaning of this project, but I just find that those Chinese characters look quite good.

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The Pelican project

Posted: 25 May 2013 03:33 PM PDT

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Things magazine has an entire section of its site dedicated to archiving Pelican book covers. In this post I share a few covers from the sixties, but there are many more cool ones from other periods.

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