Friday, May 6, 2011

FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 10

I'm in search for the perfect ALL CAPS font.  As you may notice on the blog here, I float between amazing Helveticas with round golden ratios all the way to extra tall and condensed. The golden ratio is a perfect ratio of the height of the character and width of the character. {okay, I've been geeking out and reading type design books...} Today, I bring you the opposite.


Gorgeous elongated letters, slightly bold. I find it rather striking.  I have taken workshops from Alma of Ollibird and Nicole's Classes, she is OUTSTANDING by the way.  I just finished up a refresher for patterns, because I wanted to hone my skills for more geometric patterns.  It was amazing, so simple once you learn the tricks...the hard part is coming up with the designs, really.  Anyhoo, a must do...but onward with fontliciousness.  One of Alma's favorite fonts is BEBAS, of Flat-It.  As soon as she mentioned it in class at Art Weekend, I immediately snatched it up.

While cruising the aisles at Font Squirrel, I saw BEBAS NEUE, by Dharma Type.  It seems to be a more condensed version, as you can see from the picture above, both are in 30pt.  

*Gorgeous shot above from my brother who happens to be wandering the gorgeous streets of Jeruselem currently and headed to the pyramids on Monday...nope, that's not jealousy in my tone...not...at...all...

Go NOW and visit these lovely ladies of TGIFF...


ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}
STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}
SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}
JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}
LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}
KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

and a BIG WELCOME to ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN} *block out an afternoon to read her loveliness...trust me.

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Font Friday Badge o' GORGEOUSNESS by the FABULOUS  KERRY of  SUPER SWOON.

6 comments:

  1. Oh, I love Bebas & Bebas Neue and I will definitely be downloading them (ya for freebies!). Also, amazing photograph by your brother. I can see why you're jealous of him. Does he have a blog?

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  2. Love... Simple yet effective... and I am with Lauren here: great photo from your brother :)

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  3. i just downloaded bebas yesterday for a project...funny.

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  4. Aww thank you for the shout out Jenny!! Absolutely love your pick! I'm always using Bebas such a fan :)))

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  5. Love love love Bebas! I use it all the time... it's so versatile. :)

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  6. Love this! It kind of reminds me of League Gothic -

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