Talking Typography 2

Been rather busy last couple of weeks so apologies for my lack of postings. Be back in a few days though with a bumper round up my hot links from January. In the mean time here's a couple of typography links worth checking.

Regime is the first typeface in about a year from Barnbrook's Virusfonts. In 8 weights plus italics it's pricey but a beauty.

If you are feeling the pinch but want to expand you collection then fontsquirrel is worth checking out. Hand picked 100% free fonts, so save yourself hours of trawling on other free font sites for anything half decent and take a look. 

Design Forums

Recently joined up to Design Forums, well designed and thought out website with a good selection of contributors. Definitely worth a look if you have any nagging design related questions or want feedback/advice on your work from other professionals.

Talking Typography

If you're a designer than a good selection of quality typefaces are as essential as your pen and paper, but building a decent collection can be an expensive game. However don't be tempted to download millions of free fonts from da font, 1001 free fonts, or freebies from Computer Arts etc. Whilst a few of the fonts on these sites will do you for display purposes, you will rarely find quality for free and will inevitably end up spending many an hour deleting all the rubbish (I used to be a bit of a type hoarder and recently deleted over 5000 fonts that I had never and would never use, which was a bore to say the least). Below are some links to some quality font foundries and resources that have reasonably priced and some free wares to boost your collection.

You Work For Them has a great selection of interesting typefaces and vectors at a reasonable price.

If you like your type dirty then you'll love Misprinted Type, some great display typefaces and a fair few quality freebies.

Identikal have a good selection of futuristic/ geometric gems.

Hypefortype bring together some great typographers every three months to give you limited edition typefaces from as little as £10.

The Linotype collection is extensive and if your looking for some free font management software you can't get better than FontExplorer 10. 

If you have some money to spend on your font management than Extensis Suitcase fusion looks worth a go (30 day free trial available if you want to test it). Main advantage over Linotype is it's automatic font activation system, which if it works as suggested has me tempted; won't miss searching my 200+ variations of Helvetica for the correct one to activate.

Finally get yourself some nice typography based i-phone and desktop wallpapers at Typenuts.