Codex, the journal of typography

I can’t imagine that anyone that is visiting my blog isn’t waiting for something so exiting as the upcoming first edition of Codex. Codex is a new quarterly print magazine with feature articles, type reviews, interviews, tips, type history, new and notable faces, essays, type design, from top typography experts.

From what I heard preordering will start any day now.

> http://codexmag.com

Museo Sans Rounded released!

Museo Sans gently unsharpened … that’s Museo Sans Rounded. It doesn’t have italics, but it does have a very heavy 1000 weight. The spacing and kerning has been optimized for display use.

> More info

Calluna Sans released

Calluna Sans is a humanist sans based on Calluna. It has true italics, small caps, lots of ligatures, 4 numeral sets and much, much more. Calluna Sans comes in 10 fonts: 5 weights each with an italic. The regular weight is 100% free!

More info & download

Geotica released!

Geotica comes in four different grades or line thicknesses (One, Two, Three and Four) so it’s suitable for a broad use. Each grade has four styles and is loaded with swashes, final forms, lots of ligatures and ornaments.

Geotica Three regular is free!

More info & download

Utrecht Grotesk

Custom job for Koeweiden Postma Amsterdam based on the UTRECHT logo. Not available for licensing.

33pt. Lecture at the University of Dortmund

The lecture I gave at the 33pt. symposium at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts is now online.

exljbris Font Foundry now on Typekit

exljbris Font Foundry now on Typekit with Museo, Museo Sans and Calluna. You can expect the rest of the typefaces next week.

Calluna featured on iLT’s favourites of 2009

iLoveTypography’s favourite typefaces of 2009 has just been published. I am very happy to see Calluna on such a great list.

Museo Slab is a Rising Star!

Museo Slab is featured in MyFonts’ Rising Stars newsletter of January 2010.

Calluna in MyFonts Top 10 fonts of 2009

I’m very pleased that Calluna is featured in MyFonts’ Top 10 fonts of 2009!

[in progress] Tenso Gothic

Just a little fun project I’m occasionally working on when I’ve some sparse spare time left.

Best wishes!

Thanks a lot all for everything. Have a great 2010!

[released] Museo Slab

Museo Slab: a robust slab serif with Museo’s friendliness. Two styles (500 and 500 italic) are free!

PDF specimen | (See) Museo Slab at exljbris.com
(Get) Museo Slab at MyFonts | (Get) Museo Slab at Ascenderfonts

Wild Type Gear

I’ve set up “Wild Type Gear”: a little T-shirt shop with some typographic designs I liked to see on shirts. Prices are as low as possible, because it’s just a fun project (I don’t make any profit out of this).

> wildtypegear.com

RBtL interview

“…This week on the show we interviewed type designer Jos Buivenga, designer of Museo and Calluna. We talked to him about his background, his journey from designing free fonts to selling them through Exljbris, and his recent work with Martin Majoor…”

Listen to the interview here.

MyFonts Creative Characters interview

Being interviewed by Jan Middendorp was a great and Nick Sherman designed it beautifully. I Hope you like it.

MyFonts Creative Characters Sept. 2009

Letterpress business cards

Today my gorgeous letterpress business cards from Swayspace have arrived! I’ve designed them as small Calluna type specimens.

Here’s a little action video of my cards in the making. (©Swayspace)

Calluna is a Rising Star

> new.myfonts.com/newsletters/rs/200909.html

Working on Questa

Martin Majoor and I had a great day today working on Questa. We’re still in the middle of determining and testing lowercase italic shapes for the text version. Questa will come in three variations: text, display and sans (each in regular, italic, bold and bold italic).

See also > theQuestaProject.com

[released] Fertigo Pro Script

Have a look at it at my site |  Get it at MyFonts