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20 Amazing Inscriptional Fonts To Spice Up Your Designs

Often referred to as Roman type or architectural lettering, the history of Inscriptional typefaces goes all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires (and surely prior to those periods). Historically speaking, those fonts used to be hand carved in stone and light and context was very important.

Amazing Inscriptional Fonts

Today, since we all use computers, those fonts are often digitized reproductions of the original faces used in monumental Greek and Roman carvings and can now be used for headings and script-looking documents and designs. More often than not, these typefaces come in all caps and small caps.

Here are 20 great examples of Inscriptional fonts. We hope you enjoy it!

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Great Book Cover Design Showcase

My friend Debra posted on her Daily Dose blog about some of her favorite book cover designs a few months ago. It reminded me of how clever and inspiring this design niche is.

Great book Covers
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10 Beautiful Antique Toy Ads

Some of the most amazingly intricate wood and metal art ever produced was for toys. To measure up to those amazing standards the catalog ads had to be of equal brilliance — and they were! There’s something truly brilliant about the intricate line-art and fascinating body copy from times gone by. Here are 10 awesome antique ads from the late 1800s – to early 1900s:

Old Toy Ads - Pistols
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Baby Got Wallpapers!

90’s hit classic; Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot was a instant masterpiece since it was released. Crude as it may be, it’s turned into a anthem for a generation from that era. Today, we officially celebrate this masterpiece with wallpapers typeset with Adobe Garamond (aka Robert Slimbach version in 1987).

All lyrics copyright of Anthony Ray (Sir Mix-a-Lot) and Nastymix.


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Type Showcase: Garamond

In art school, we had to paint this typeface in the “Introduction to Typography” course. Looking back, I appreciate the focus we put on it because of how elegant and useful it is. It has a lot of personality to it but remains functional at the same time. No surprise that Apple has used it in their award winning ad campaigns including “Think Different” and Dr. Seuss and J.K Rowling have used it to typeset their books (according to Wikipedia).

Garamond Semibold
Garamond Semibold
Semibold is very useful, it’s a great weight for this font.
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3 Beautiful Retro Photographic Manuals

When I used to live in NYC, I used to visit the Strands near Union Square all the time just to flip through old books. They just have a certain easy flair to them that just makes sense no matter what the subject matter is. From the old-school science fiction illustrations to the out-of-date typography, they all have a certain flavor that the computer age pretty much ended. Here are some old photographic manuals I came across that I took some photos of. The covers feature some great examples of sans-serif typography and wonderful textbook-like interior diagrams:

Build Your Own Home Darkroom
Wonderful, beautiful Helvetica… My precious…
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New Hotness Fridays – 2

What a week it’s been! We started the week with Obama taking a shiv to Cheney on 60 minutes — telling him to STFU, sadly Natasha Richardson passed away and Mexico is falling apart… Lucky for you, Sir or Madam, we have some lovely New Hotness for you:

New Hotness — Overall Winner

I Love Typography — The first one’s the hardest by Jeremy Mickel
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I love this article. Jeremy worked so hard on that typeface and I just felt so inspired reading it. He spend a year and half on Router and it’s simply brilliant. So much personality in such a elegant package. The italic “k” i simply brilliant. I’d totally punch a leprechaun in the face for this typeface.
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30 Awesome Designerly Band T-Shirts

*UPDATE* The author of the 25th comment gets the shirt of their choice in this post. Including comments. Yay!

Get your lighters ready! Today, we’re looking at designs commissioned by bands/labels – usually meaning they are some of the most creative, expressive and innovative illustrations, layout and techniques. Most often they are applied to cover art and gig posters but some of the most memorable era of a band can often be summarized by “that” t-shirt. For Weezer, I think it might have been the Adrian Tomine ladies tee. Nirvana had that weird looking Daniel Johnston alien looking line drawing thing that they were known for before they blew up.

We have a selection of Illustrative, typographical and just plain ol’ interesting categories for you to peruse from (surprise treat at the end):

ILLUSTRATIVE

Sub Pop representin’ the other white meat…
Sub Pop Tee
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5 Classic Sans-Serif Fonts

Helvetica

HELVETICA
  • Created in 1957
  • A “Grotesk” sans-serif (any early sans-serif essentially)
  • Created to compete with Akidenz-Grotesk
  • Updated to be more legible and consistent in 1983 (christened Helvetica Neue)
  • A film was made about it
  • Thx, to simplebitsdan for CC photo! BTW, I met Dan at ALA SF in 2008. Awesome dude.

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