We recently had the pleasure of working on a project with ‘Creating Heroes‘; an organisation that mentors young creatives towards building a career in Media and the Performing Arts. In a limited time-frame we produce a brand identity, a brochure, and the website. We even found time to produce a custom font titled ‘Hero’, which you can download for free!

Our brand new font – Hero (Hero Regular + Hero Italic) are available for free to download:

Click here to download

LetterCult is currently running through the best custom lettering of 2009. There is lots of cool ones, and some really great ideas. Here are some stand out ones for me. Go check out the rest there is a lots more great one!

I thought I should take the time to shout out John Boardley, creator of i love typography and we love typography.

Only recently stumbling on we love typography it’s a must bookmark for any type enthusiast. It has typography from all genres and historic periods due to the large amount of varied contributors. It is a great source for ideas. It’s an inviting website, allowing the content to speak for itself, and the ease of navigation makes it hard to leave. I wish to thank John’s cat for his hard work!

I stumbled on a great article this morning titled, Typography on the web. It contains a small bit of the history of web typography, and discusses what will happen to web typography in the future. Which obviously is leaning towards more typefaces available for all browsers.

With so many parties needed to be involved to achieve such a thing I think it will take a long time to see this plan come into fruition. Which, for me personally, I’m happy about!

The web, even with it’s great advancements, still is saturated with horrible-looking sites. People tend to overcomplicate there websites making them hard to enjoy. Allowing people free reign of an abundance of typefaces will just cause an insurgence of unbearable-looking sites. So for now I’m happy with the restrictions.

With that all said there is a small movement of people who back the cause of more typefaces on the web, BUT importantly, only beautiful ones. People like The League of Moveable Type who I back fully! People who hand pick great-looking open-source typefaces, and encourage the widespread online use of them. I completely agree with there ethos, and hope this sort of thing does catch on.

I just thought I’d take the time to post a link to a superb font site, exljbris.

For those who have not been lucky enough too stumble across it already, this site probably has the most refined collection of free font on the web, It’s definitely worth a bookmark!

We have added a new font in our ‘goodies’ section.  It’s called ‘KYRI KAPS’. You can download it from here!

Here it is in action: