adventures in design

Font Friday: Adobe Garamond Pro

This is a lovely, old-style serf  font that I love. It's sturdy and elegant, and an all around nice, classic typeface. Garamond was originally developed in the 16th century, and is one of the oldest typefaces you can find.

It's not a free font. Since becoming open source (and having "Adobe" in front of it) it's for sale. You can purchase the entire font package for as low as $169 (which includes italics).
View an entire character map here

Font Friday: 1942 Report

1942 Report, created by Johan Holmdahl, is a typewriter-style font that has a grungy feel perfect for labels, save the dates, or an un-traditional invitation style.

Font Type: Typewriter
True-Type Font, Free
Available for Download: DaFont

1942 Report is a little bit grungy, a little bit Rock n' Roll-- I like it because it's still got that typewriter feel while being edgy. I think it's great for save-the-dates and for a letterpress style invite that wants to take a more modern perspective. See a full character map here

Font Friday: Ecolier

There are millions (really!) of a amazing fonts out there to consider when it comes to designing your invitations, programs, personal stationery, graphics, and more. In light of the millions and billions of fab fonts out there, I am going to feature some of my favorites each week to introduce you to, or remind you of, some fab fonts.

Let's start with the script font Ecolier:

Font type: True- Type
Designer: Jean-Marie Douteau
Download (free): Dafont.com

Ecolier is a nice script font that's not too formal and slightly vintage in appearance. It's got a great connection to other letters, and looks pretty when bolded. The font was designed to resemble the handwriting style of French schoolschildren (hence the name "Ecolier", which is French for "school")I particularly like the look of the numbers (the European seven, the rounded two and nine are favorites)

The other characters are nicely refined as well, and there's ulongs, ampersands, parenthesis, and great accent characters-- see a full character map here No wonder it's one of my favorite fun & flirty script fonts.