Spooky Free Fonts: Be Very Aware!

Wild Wood a true type font from Jessica Slater of Jester Font Studio via Font Space.

Mars Attacks! A true type font from Jens R. Ziehn of Filmhimmel via Dafont.

You Murderer from 1001 Free Fonts.

Feast of Flesh A true type font from Nate Piekos of BlamBot from Dafont.

Zombified a true type font from Chad Savage of Sinister Visions via Dafont.
:: and many more via Hongkiat

Yours Truly

If you happen to have made it to the first Cincinnati Type-in recently, you may have seen these lovely letterheads from various typewriter companies. Richard P, featured the letterheads above on his blog Writing Ball. They were contributed by Peter Weil who writes the typewriter Ephemera column for Richard's journal ETCetera: Journal of the Early Typewriter's Association.  They are full-size scans available from himself truly.
      Taking a Q from Writing Ball, the 5 letterheads you see below from various Swiss typewriter companies were recently added by Shordzi on his Sommeregger blog. He kindly made them available for downloading here. Unfortunately there is no way to duplicate that metallic silver of the Baggenstos Hermes letterhead. Thanks for sharing guys!










The letterhead in the IBM Selectric below isn't available for download at this time. Nice display of Gill Sans Light, which would benefit even more from some kerning.

Ghost Letters

Designer Roland Hörmann shares some wonderful examples of ghost typography from his walks through Vienna where he lives. He kindly shares desktop wallpaper downloads of the collection from his blog link on his website just so the letters can have an afterlife.

Should I Work for Free?

Jessica Hische provides her Work for Free chart for free. Get yours here. Available for Google translation too.

Meet Your Type

The good folks over at FontShop are offering up this wonderful little field guide to love and typography. Written in a quirky manner by Erik Spiekermann, he spells out the birds and B's of the ABC's and other case studies of finding your perfect type. You will find other helpful primers on typography on FontShop's Education page too. Available as PDF downloads here or for purchase as print versions.

Heavy Metal

Find free stuff and great deals on metal revival fonts from ArchiveType. All fonts available in OpenType.

Not My Type

It's The Visual Enforcement Kit. Don't leave home without it.

The Nose

The Nose No. 18 (published, illustrated, and conceived by Seymour Chwast, and edited by Steven Heller) is now online for the first time. The Nose is a publication designed to draw attention to relevant social issues as well as trivial ones. Each 24 page issue is designed and illustrated by Seymour Chwast, lovingly handlettered in his most charming and endearing style. This issue is devoted to "Cults and Superstitions". You'll love the new sustainable, digital version. Each page is worth the price--which, since it is online, is nada. So this is your lucky day! Join The Nose cult now. Or if you prefer the hardcopy subscription, order it directly from Seymour Chwast at Pushpininc.com.