FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 20

Happy Font Friday lovelies! This week is a gorgeous font apply names GELATO over on MyFonts. Isn't it fun?




I just love happy little ligatures. Enjoy!

 Don't forget to swing by my FAVORITE FONTASTIC PALS in the world:

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

VICKI {VICKI.DESIGNER}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 19

Happy Friday! Do you know what time it is? It's FONT FRIDAY TIME...yay! This week I have a similar one to last week's MAIDEN ORANGE.   It's retro and cartoony, and I've played that up a bit with the colors, but it looks really cool in white as an overlay, too. It's called HAURACHERELL NC (don't ask me how to say it...I can hardly spell it) and it's a freebie over on DAFONT.  How FUN, right? I've been working on some Back to School Printables for Cyd over on THE SWEETEST OCCASION and keep bouncing back between the two fonts. Decisions, decisions.

Don't forget to swing by my FAVORITE FONTARIFIC PALS in the world:

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

VICKI {VICKI.DESIGNER}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 18

Happy Font Friday! I might have spent the afternoon at the beach instead of working on my Font Friday Post...but I have noticed that around the blogosphere, posts are still stellar, just less frequent.  I know at least for me as a parent, it's hard to focus when two little ones are rarin' to go outside. But today I bring you another freebie for two reasons.
1. It's awesome and I used it in my invite button for Hello: a Seattle Blogger Meet & Greet.
2. I blew my budget this month (and a few coming months) by buying my ticket to ALT.  I can live with that.

This week's pick is MAIDEN ORANGE by ASTIGMATIC. I found it over on FONT SQUIRREL.

 

Isn't it fun? {warning, warning...learning curve rant follows} So, I have been playing around with backgrounds, trying to get a watercolor feel, and I ended up with the above.  I like the angular nature of it.  I think I used one too many items, because the file keeps getting angry at me.  Like that little rainbow swirly thing keeps popping up...I am new to Mac so when it first appeared with my first ikat pattern, I thought "oh look...how cute." I have since learned that you DO NOT want the little demon ball and it's trying to tell me my design wasn't done the right way and is too complicated.  I am primarily self taught via a few classes and tutorials, so my processes aren't necessarily the best ways of creating my end product.  I must mention that my layers are properly named and organized. Woo Hoo!  

Anyhoo.  Here's a little DIY to create your own cool quote page.


1. Create a background in Illustrator in the size needed and file/save for web and devices/save it as a png.
2. Open the png in another Artboard of the same size and type your quote on top.
3. Select all (type and image) and right click to Create Clipping Mask.
Tada! You could use this to make shapes like pennant or flags, too!

I'm sure all my font friends already knew this...their designs are so gorgeous. But go see for yourself!

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

VICKI {VICKI.DESIGNER}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 17

Hello fontabulous font lovers! This week I have a FREEBIE for you! Well, not me personally {boo, I know} but I have found a fantastic free font.  For our newbie font lovers, did you know that sometimes those fabulous fonts you want have free versions?  For example, this week's font by Ossi Gustaffson, SKETCHETIK has a free version in the light form.   I found it via FONT SQUIRREL, but the download is over on MY FONTS.  

But see the little note? Sometimes they have sales, but sometimes they have versions that are free so you can test out the font.  I always scroll down and check all the prices on MyFonts, just to make sure.  I like to play with my fonts a little, before I commit...maybe someday I'll just be able to buy what strikes my fancy.

Have I told you how much I love free fonts?  Well, free stuff in general? I heard of KITSCHY DIGITALS from over on  PUGLY PIXEL and had to try them out.  This blackboard background came from their freebie download.  LOVE.

Don't forget to see my friends! I'm behind on my blog reads so I'll be doing the rounds this weekend for sure!

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

VICKI {VICKI.DESIGNER}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 16

It's FONT FRIDAY!!! Hello and HAPPY Friday! For today's edition, I bring you vintage coolness.  One of the children's books my MIL has, from when the hubby, was little is "A Very, Very Special Day"  (I didn't get the author name when I snapped the photos.)  SO, I'm in love with it and I have been on a search the last few months to find a font that is similar to this; that I could enhance with dots and swirls.  At this point, I have a few runners-up...SKITCH, PERLA and PEACH SUNDRESS...but I think it will be a mostly handrawn endevor. Any suggestions?  I'm looking for a font pretty close to this, so I don't have to modify everything. Isn't it fabulous?  The colors?  The little doodles?  LOVE. SWOON. If it were available somewhere, I would totally buy it. It couldn't be too hard to sketch it myself right? Especially, if I just had a few words...

Go see my FONT FRIENDS and have yourself a fabulous summer weekend!

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

VICKI {VICKI.DESIGNER}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 15

Happy Font Friday! Summer breeds thoughts of travel and road trips...and while we will be camping out in our own backyard, there is no reason we can't make a little adventure of it.  I've had this font on my wish list for a while...CARTOGRAPHER by HIPOPOTAM.  It makes me want to grab a calligraphy pen and start drawing.



These are the perfect little letters for a tiny adventure or an awesome BBQ.  I love hand-drawn fonts simply because they offer the beauty of the imperfect letter, but still save me the time and effort it would take to create an invite. I want to use these in a number of things running through my head, H + H would get a real kick if we made a summer adventure book. The squirrel's wheel is turning...which is surprising before coffee...

and the bestest part...(yes, I know it's not a word but it's how I feel) The numbers and punctuation are mega-cool.

Now go, visit my BESTEST pals and have a fabulous FONT FRIDAY adventure of your own!

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

VICKI {VICKI.DESIGNER}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 14

Happy, Happy, Happy July!  July has always been when it REALLY starts to feel like summer...Today, I bring you another font I fell in love with and hunted down. I found this site for the magazine I AM MODERN while looking for cool modern (aka not lame or Disney related) night lights for the boys.  Guess which part I love the most...yep, the retro script font.  I swear, sometimes I am surprisingly mysterious, but others,  it's like I have it embossed on my forehead.  I can't hide the stuff I truly love, why would I want to?

SOURCE: I AM MODERN

Ok, so it's a SUDTIPOS and by King Ale himself,  so in all actuality it didn't take me that long.  But honestly, Alejandro Paul and Jessica Hische are the only designers that have that certain savoir faire that I immediately get a "hint" and go see their collections to find them.  Usually, I just open a window with the font I am trying to find, and another window with a font website, pop the phrase/word in the text preview and scroll by type of font.   This one was a breeze, because I searched by SUDTIPOS.  Took me a total of 2 mins.  I was quite pleased with myself.   So here it is. MOUSSE SCRIPT, isn't it pretty?

I have a question for my font pals out there...What is an alternate cut?  I clicked the tab at MyFonts.com and this pops up... GLENGARY NF.  So, I get that they are both based on a vintage handdrawn font from Stephanson Blake in 1932, but how does that work?  GLENGARY is insanely cheap, and it doesn't seem fair to MOUSSE...Can one of you explain this to me? Is this typical of revival fonts?

I hope everyone has a fantastic Fourth! Have Fun! Since today is pretty much shot for productivity at work, go check out my font friends to see what lovelies they have rounded up.

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

VICKI {CURLY WILLOW DIY}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 13

Happy FONT FRIDAY!  Don't forget to check out my fellow fontophiles and follow #FONTFRIDAY on  Twitter!

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

A BIG Welcome to new Font Friday friend, VICKI of CURLY WILLOW DIY.

Before I list my font pick for you today, I thought I'd include a little glimpse into YARD SALE mania.  As you know, because I've told you a bazillion times, we just moved. Our new house has incredible storage, which I intend to utilize to the fullest extent.  So, for the benefit to some lucky folks in the Seattle area, it means a bunch of goodies for cheap.  Here's my flyer, which I will be printing on hot pink and neon orange signage. I am experimenting with the idea that it's not your typical garage sale.

I hope it brings a lot of people who don't typically stop at garage sales on their way to do errands.  People like me, always on the lookout for the "good stuff."  We'll see.  I might just get bored and jump ship at noon...

Here's a run down of fonts used: {in order of appearance}

BEBAS

AMERICAN TYPEWRITER

BLACKOUT

CONFERENCE CALL

MARKETING SCRIPT

My font friday pick didn't make the cut even though it is super cool.  {get it? super...}

SUPERPOIS by studiocharlie over on MyFonts is just perfect.  I had to think about a chance of intermittent showers in the forecast and chose not to include it.  I favored bold and easy to read for the flyer.  

On invitations or banners though, wouldn't this just be perfect?  I love the shape of the letters, very clean and modern.  In perfect little round dots, saving anyone the heartache of creating these from scratch.  I've loved LEARNING CURVE and PRINT CLEARLY, both available in dashed versions,  for a long time, so SUPERPOIS will be a welcome addition to my font roll. studiocharlie has quite a few SUPER-fonts, so be sure to go check them out!

Oh- if you'd like to have a similar yard sale...here's the PDF to download HERE.

FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 12

I am writing about this fab font this today because I LOVE it.  I am also pretty sure it has been covered in FONT FRIDAY before...but I don't care. I love it.  I need it. I just have never tried to use an EPS file.  I googled it and found these instructions that I will try.  This font is WELL worth the little bit of extra trouble...I mean, COME ON...look at this!

This is NELMA by MISSY AUSTIN for LOST TYPE CO-OP.  Does Missy sound familiar?  Kerry over on SUPER SWOON just did a post on her illustrations HERE.  LOVE. This girl just graduated last year, and I can't wait to see when her talent explodes...

Check out my font pals here:

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

CATHERINE {DESIGN EDITOR}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

ALLIE {HONEY BEE INVITES}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

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Extra, Extra... Wanna WIN some fabulous party goodies??? Go NOW to ONE CHARMING PARTY and enter to win a set of 6 of my CHAIR GARLANDS.  Yep, SIX.  When the lovely, Brittany asked if I'd like to do a giveaway for her BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY WEEK, I said "Oh, YES!"  So, check out the ENTIRE giveaway and enter to win on EACH day of this week.  When Brittany does a giveaway, she does it really REALLY well...kinda like her parties...have you seen her latest?  SWOON.

and one more...Extra, Extra, Extra...

Did you see the DIY goodness yesterday on THE SWEETEST OCCASION?  My video tutorials on an EMBOSSING GUN and a SCORING BOARD.  Super easy, but you might not know how to use them...don't worry, you can go peek and I won't tell. Don't forget...DIY Week continues today!!! Am I DIY'd out...hardly, baby...we are just beginning.

ok, SO...it was a super long post, I know. It's been a crazy week for Hank + Hunt and here at home. I really am going MIA now. I know, I know...you're like 'you said that last time and you keep popping in'...it's 'cause I love you so!  This time the shop closes on Monday, and all you will hear from this blog is crickets...But really this time, the movers will be here in a few days {EEK}...wish me luck and have a fabulous MEMORIAL DAY weekend! See you in JUNE! 

FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 11

I've been swamped like crazy this week, but aha! I found a little chunk of time to put a NEED on my little wishlist...

I think, I love you...
Kewl Script by Alejandro Paul, the font king himself... I need it. 

I must have it. 

I have a little thing for retro/vintage looking fonts and this has such awesome ligatures that I am just NUTS over it.  Oh, the things I could do with them...

It's the font that will sit in my cart as I hover over the buy button.  I've been pretty good lately...It's been three weeks since I got a font. MUST. RESIST.  I'll tell you what...this font is my next purchase. Period. 

A big WELCOME to our new FONT FIENDS err...FRIENDS.

Catherine {DESIGN EDITOR}

WENDY{WESWEN DESIGN}

Allie from {HONEY BEE INVITES}

Go NOW and visit the rest of the fontabulousness at TGIFF...

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

 ALISON {ALISON OWEN DESIGN}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

 

 

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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}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

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.

FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 9

Hello, hello! Time for another fabulous Font Friday!  I loved the latest from Anthropologie and am dying over the colors in this photo.  I just love the photo.  Every now and then I am undyingly SMITTEN with Anthro.  ::sigh::

At just $20 over at MyFonts.com, HT GELATERIA  is a outstanding buy and a must have in any collection.  I can't wait to see what my other font obsessive pals have lined up this week!

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

and our new badge coming soon with some new participants...

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FONT FRIDAY: ISSUE 8

Hello! Happy Good Friday, and it's extra good cause we have FONT FRIDAY. Fonts make everything better. I wanted to welcome our newcomer from last week Lauren of Palm Papers.  Love this girl and I can't wait to do my rounds as soon as I get this post up!! WOO HOO. My pic today is PACIFICO from Font Squirrel, which is a FREE commercial font site, so that makes our font today, F-R-E-E! Which is really good for the pocket book.

As far as free fonts go, it's pretty clean.  I did modify them a bit in AI when I did the outlines, but thanks to one of my favorite tools, the shape builder, easy peasy.  This font is really easy to modify, a BIG plus! I'm still a newbie at AI, and I adore the shape builder tool. If you don't know what it does, let me explain.  You can take two shapes, drag the mouse across both, and it magically makes ONE. How simple is that?  No messing around with anchor points or the pen tool.  LOVE. IT. Almost as much as I love fonts, so let's get on it, shall we?

Have a perfectly fabulous and Happy Easter!

The my favorite fiesty broads...and have INCREDIBLE FONT FRIDAY picks too...

ALEXANDRA  {THE AERIALIST PRESS}

JEN {BLUSH PRINTABLES}

STEPH {BUBBLEROCK}

SOFIA {BRANCOPRATA}

CHELSEA {FOURTH AND FOLDED}

LAUREN {LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED}

JENNA + ELIZABETH {LITTLE BIT HEART}

LAUREN {PALM PAPERS}

KERRY {SUPER SWOON}

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**WARNING: Following FONT FRIDAY can put a ding in  your pocket book, but SOOOOO worth it!**

**ADDED TO POST: Here's my entry for the FONT FRIDAY BADGE,  Go check out everyone's entries!**