The wretched typeface MS Comic Sans was unleashed upon unsuspecting secretaries and MS Word enthusiasts in the mid 90′s and has been showing up everywhere from office break rooms to garage sale signs ever since. Well, as it turns out, even comic sans has a group of defenders that seek to remake the world entirely in comic sans. Great. Personally, I hate the typeface and think the world would be a slightly better place sans comic sans; however, these folks don’t agree. See more of their witty re-imagining of popular logos below the cut.

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Courtesy of the guys at FontFabric, Code is a simple sans serif typeface that is great in any setting
you can imagine. With crisp lines and uncomplicated angles, it can be used in web, print, video, or
just about any other place you need a sharp, clean, bold type. Enjoy!

Available for download right here.

Check out the additional sample treatments after the cut.

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Here’s a fun idea: take two food groups (bacon & eggs, coffee & doughnuts) and create an ampersand that is comprised of both items. Illustrator Dan Beckemeyer has done just that and the results are pretty awesome. See for yourself! If you like these, check out the rest of his phenomenal portfolio over on Behance.

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Most places these days use slick laser-cut vinyl letters and plastic signs to get their point across; however, in many parts of the world, hand-lettering is still the way to go. Not that it has any possibility of dying out in the near future; but, the kind folks at Typarchive collect them and post them, sorted by geographic location. Here are some the coolest examples of hand-lettering in their collection.

Also, these are all mostly exterior. Hopefully they’ll add other letterforms in the near feature. Enjoy!

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File this under cool and handy – Italian based design shop Squidspot has put out a pretty awesome periodic table…of type! Basically, they took the 100 most popular (in their eyes, at least) type faces and created a table of them in the style of the old school periodic table of elements. What makes it even better is that they put out a rather large graphic of it that you can download for free (see link below to the huge version). This baby is just begging to be printed and hung somewhere near and dear to your heart. You can check out the project in more detail here. Happy Friday!

You can view the full size image (3150 * 2100) and save it for download here.

I love the idea of animated type. For me, it goes back to growing up with Saturday morning cartoons; however, I’ve always loved watching the introductory credits to movies…especially when they involve motion typography (or in some cases kinetic typography) just to make them interesting. Think James Bond films. Yeah, you get the idea. Here are 20 recent finds I’ve found that are some fun implementations of both motion typography and kinetic typography. Some of them are set to music and poetry, some of them are set to spoken words or announcements. They’re from all over the world and some of them aren’t in English, but they’re still cool! Enjoy them all – they’re after the cut.

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This was one of the best font scouting weeks in a while! Here are 10 free fonts that you can use in your design projects. In case you missed last weeks Free Font Friday post, you can revisit it here. If you come across some cool free fonts and want us to include them in our Friday post, send us a tip via our contact page. Each image links to the download page for the font. Enjoy!

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