Ninja December 7th, 2009
Jos Buivenga of the exljbris font foundry has expanded his empire to include fun type tees! His online shop, Wild Type Gear, features some cool designs (as seen below). You can browse his tee selection here.
Ninja April 16th, 2008
Congrats to Mr. Jos Buivenga (the art director and type-designer behind exljbris) on his well-deserved spot on the blog, I love typography! You can check out his sketches and get a peek into his design process here.
Ninja March 17th, 2008
Hallo NvP! Good morning, and for those of you celebrating, Happy St. Patrick’s Day. And even if you’re not celebrating, I hope you’re having a happy Monday.
Mr. Jos Buivenga of exljbris kindly sent me an email to let me know that Museo is out. Thanks, Jos for the heads up + for creating this beaut! ^__^
Museo… it all started with my love for the letter ‘U’. This uppercase letter just came to me as an image in a daydream. The top of both stems bent into semi-slab serifs. From this principle I worked out the rest of the uppercase letters. My first intention was to make it an all-caps display font but after a while I changed my mind. I wanted it to be a bit more versatile, so I decided to add lowercase and adjust spacing and kerning to increase legibility.
Jos Buivenga
Features
+ OpenType in five weights*
+ CE language support
+ ligatures
+ contextual alternatives
+ stylistic alternates
+ fractions and proportional/tabular figures
+ case feature for case-sensitive forms
* MUSEO font family has five weights (100 300 500 700 900).
3 weights are free (300 500 700) and 2 require purchasing (100 900).
Purchasing/free download link
+ Get Museo from MyFonts
Ninja September 13th, 2007
Normally, free fonts = really crappy fonts. But wait, free font foundry, exlijbris is offering up something quite nice. Anivers, was created in celebration of Smashing Magazine’s one-year anniversary.
This lovely font boasts features you would expect from other quality fonts:
+ ligatures (yay—it’s even got the fj ligature, so I can set “fjord” now)
+ contextual alternatives
+ fractions
+ oldstyle/tabular numerals*
+ ‘case’ feature for case sensative forms
+ over 1600 kerning pairs
* (sigh) it comes with oldstyle figures—no need to purchase the expert set (oh, wait, it’s free)
Link:
+ Download Anivers (scroll down—sorry exlijbris does not like direct linking)
Limited edition lithograph prints. Signed + numbered.
