Typography Snapshots - Where to Find Inspiration

As a design fanatic, I'm sure that you read design related articles quite often in daily basis via your feed reader or just when you connect yourself to the social media streams. Reading is good but how about being more visual today ;)

Here are some of my favorite Typography gallery websites, that speaks to their audience visually with series of typography design snapshots and use minimal words to satisfy your curiosity. The collection is growing bigger everyday for you to find inspiration.

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Beautiful Type - @bftype

It's a new typography snapshots Tumblelog gallery authored by two designers: Francis Chouquet and Aurélien Foutoyet. The content presented on Beautiful Type is a patchwork of artistic typography related photos and illustrations from the Web.


We Love Typography (WLT) - @ilovetypography

WLT publishes daily snaps typography design, which are applied on various range of media. It is a community bookmarking site for typography lovers and supported by ILT blog. When you're really like a post from WLT, you can tweet it with a unique hashtag provided for each post, or simply include WLT hashtag: #WLT to have your say!


Typography Served - @theserved

Typography Served featuring top work in categories such as typeface design, lettering, illustrated typography, or any piece with typography focus. Projects showcased are highly selected. You would often see great gallery teaser of many typeface projects and if you're lucky, sometimes the typeface set is free to download ;)


TypeInspire - @typeinspire

For you who are a big fan of stunning 3D typography designs or need to find some inspirations of digital graphic text effect, TypeInspire is a gallery that you'd probably like to visit. Browse the typography snapshots category using tag cloud found on the sidebar of this site.


That's it for now :) I'll update this post when I found some other interesting typography galleries on the net. Feel free to comment if you know something already ;)
Happy weekend!

Poster Designs by Tom Whalen

“the fifth element” by Tom Whalen

I got a (Prospect) Dribbble account yesterday and has been liking many number of dribbbled designs made by the amazing players over there.
One of all star Dribbble players I stumbled upon was Tom Whalen of StrongStuff.net. A great illustrator who has designed lots of colorful  poster related to movies or comic characters. The poster designs are often implement retro color scheme or style but how Tom composing illustration figures, textures and typography is definitely clever! I enjoy myself surfing StrongStuff on Tumblr and reblogged one of Tom Whalen's infography-illustration poster: "Ghostbusters" as I'm a (probably the only one) fan of Slimer :-p
You like the StrongStuff posters? just follow Tom Whalen's tweets @strongstufftom to get fresh design updates via Twitter!

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Hill House - a Typeface Inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh Handwriting

Hill House was made over 10 years ago as a typeface based on the distinctive handwriting of Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). It is so often used for wedding invitations with a touch of Art Nouveau design style. The font set includes special glyphs for the words ‘to’, ‘at’ and ‘of’, and contains Mac, PC and Opentype formats. It is free to download. You can embed it for a web design project with Cufon or with @font-face. Another font embedding kits are also accessible on Typekit and Kernest.

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Swype - A Modernized Stencil Typography Logo Design

This logo design is a big surprise for me to see. Daniel Keller (@danielku) made it with smart concept.
When I first saw the Swype logo, the fonts remind me to stencil fonts yet modern in a way with its roundy corner shape. It's a modernized stencil typography logo design.

Swype logo can be used to a mobile gadget brand, smart phone, website that reviews mobile devices, games or anything related to electronic media.

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Anyone interested to have the full commercial license,  the Swype logo is available on Brandstack

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4 Fanciful Sans Serif Fonts Created by Nymphont

I've been a fan of Nymphont's works and previously I used one of them for a business card template: Coffee Latte Card. Glad that I have time to publish a new post today. I put more attention to series of Lauren's experiments in sans-serif. Classic and fancy but they are still looking modern with clean geometric line. Here are just few of reasons why I love Nymphont's fonts and I hope you would enjoy our post featuring The 4 Fanciful Sans Serif Fonts created by Lauren Thompson of Nymphont.


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Jolly Font Family
Free for personal use

Joly looks lovely with some amount of height. I think the perfect kerning, made it appears like this set of font is slightly condensed (to note that particular height). Another uniqueness is probably the bowl you see in small caps, like: 'a, b, and d' which have different roundy curve in the upper and bottom part for each font. I personally love the beauty of the 'J' caps, and all characters type of 'S,V, and W'.
I think it has the potential to use in paragraph text. It has uniform stroke which gives cleaner feel. It looks simple, friendly and feminine at the same time. I'm not sure if you are agree with me on this :)


LT Oksana
Free for personal use

Lauren has been very proud of this LT Oksana, and I couldn't agree with her more! It's one of her best work :) Since its first debut in 2008, it is now updated with kerning revisions and improvements as LT Oksana Version 4.0. Lauren described it as a 'retro' geometric-sans. I would also say that it has Art Deco look. Geometric aspect is what Lauren has explored for this set of font. 'K, Q, and W' uppercases just to name a few. The 'g' two stories lowercase is super smart with an opening at the left side of the loop ;) The low placement of crossbar for 'f and t' smallcaps are just making them more fancy. I also love the look of LT Oksana's ampersand. Lauren has made excellent demo by using this font for the headings element at Nymphont blog.


Champagne & Limousines
Free for personal use


Classic, clean and elegant is the first impression to say. Champagne & Limousines is my favorite Nymphont's sans-serif font. The letters appear once again with geometric shape, and roundy feel. Probably as a result of minimum height of descender or ascender on some fonts but without over-doing it. Champagne & Limousines Bold with sharp edges on 'A, M, N, V and W' caps (as well as the lowercase), is another beauty of this font which make it more legible for display text purpose.


Caviar Dreams
Free for personal and commercial use

Caviar Dreams was actually designed before Champagne & Limousines. But officially published after the first release of Champagne & Limousines. Yes, they are slightly looking similar. But what has differentiated them is their letter-spacing. Caviar Dreams has more pleasant letter-spacing in order to give different looks in various use. Several letter shapes are unconventionally designed. You can start to check the lowercase angled 'e' and also figure the neat curves in letter 'w' lowercase as well as the uppercase. In my personal opinion, Caviar Dreams is the casual version of Champagne & Limousines ;)

NOTE:
Getting ready for your commercial design project? I highly recommend Nymphont fonts featured here. It is also important for you to appreciate Lauren's talent and hardwork by sending donation when you decide to use it for commercial project.
Give a time to check other fonts created by Nymphont

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