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
Entries Tagged as ‘News’
November 1, 2009
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.
September 25, 2009
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
September 21, 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)
September 4, 2009
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
September 2, 2009
[updated] Fertigo Pro now with italic
Fertigo —one of my most popular free fonts— now has a new italic.
You can find it here.
July 24, 2009
Calluna released!
After 1.5 years Calluna is finally ready! Hope you enjoy it. BTW the regular is free.
Be sure to have a look at the PDF specimen (272 KB).
You can download Calluna at MyFonts.
April 8, 2009
Interview on webdesignerdepot
A little more about Museo and me can be read on webdesignerdepot.com. Nice samples of Museo in use can be found at the end of the article. Hope you enjoy it.
January 15, 2009
Museo and Museo Sans in MyFonts Top 10 fonts of 2008
Great news! Both Museo and Museo Sans made it into the top 10 of MyFonts 2008 fonts! Here’s a link to the newsletter.
November 2, 2008
exljbris fonts in use
You are invited to inspire others and showcase your work using exljbris Fonts. Thanks Anthony Bellemare for initiating this!
–> Exljbris Fonts (Flickr Pool)
Photo: Hugo Roussel (Studio Punkat)
October 9, 2008
Rising Star: Museo Sans
Museo Sans is featured in the October edition of the MyFonts Rising Stars newsletter. Thanks to all who made this possible!
September 17, 2008
Museo Sans released
Museo Sans is based on the well-known Museo. It is a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use. Two fonts (500 & 500 italic) are absolutely free.
Get it at MyFonts.com | Visit my Museo Sans page
July 23, 2008
Wonderful tool for type designers
Interpolated Nudge by Christian Robertson
A few months ago I discovered this utterly useful free python script that shifts control points proportionally with it’s anchor points. I can’t think of editing contours without it anymore. You can find the Interpolated Nudge script *here*.
(image courtesy of BetaType/Christian Robertson)
“The idea is pretty simple. Wouldn’t it be nice to [...]
July 21, 2008
Anivers is a Rising Star
Because of hitting the #1 spot on the MyFonts Starlets list (just like Museo) Anivers is featured in the July newsletter of MyFonts.
July 7, 2008
Museo Sans numbers
After reading Tal Leming’s fraction fever I decided to give this a go. I’ve long wanted to script a decent fraction feature, but couldn’t get it right. This is working perfectly (for now … I’ve only tested it in Indesign CS2 on Tiger). Click on the images to see it animated.
Still in progress … but [...]
June 25, 2008
Anivers on ilovetypography.com
iLT features an article I’ve written revealing a bit more about Anivers.
April 22, 2008
Interview on iLoveTypography
Always wanted to know why I give my fonts away? This and other questions you find answered in an interview on one of the best typography blogs/sites: iLoveTypography.com
Read the interview
