In an effort to bring their Exclusive Faces range to a larger audience, HypeForType approached graphic designer Ryan Atkinson to produce our first magazine release. The brief was to produce a 16 page A2 mailer with a twist. Instead of following the traditional convention of a read through booklet, Ryan designed a quick read through A2 magazine which also doubles up as a set of 4 Exclusive Faces posters. Each page folds out to create a double sided poster perfect for your studio or home wall space.

The magazine itself is printed litho on 90gsm wood free paper, giving everything a premium newspaper feel which absorbs the inks to create a beautiful desaturated look and feel.

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“The Internet Archive is hosting a copy of the American Specimen Book of Type Styles put out by the American Type Founders Company in 1912. It's a 1300-page book listing hundreds of typefaces and their possible use cases.”

via kottke.org

The calendar side is based on a 15 column grid across the full
width of an A1 sheet — A dual function piece — The A1 calendar can be folded into a 5 column fold out A1 length mailer, which allows for less expensive and easier posting of the calendar. The reverse of the calendar features selected Trebleseven branding/design projects.

Dan Sayers of Iotic has created Avería — The Average Font. A new typeface generated by averaging all the fonts installed on his computer. A very interesting experiment on generative typography, the font is released under the SIL Open Font License and can be downloaded for free.

Your mission is simple: achieve pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to typographer's solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it. Good luck!

Fun little test.

HypeForType keeps releasing some typeface gems: RM Regular is the first typeface designed by Mash Creative — a simple, clean and legible sans-serif type font. Look like a great alternative to , Akzidenz Grotesk, Helvetica or even Gotham.
First 100 orders get a lovely type-specimen poster as well!

Designer Rick Banks (Face37) has released a beautiful brand new typeface F37 Bella — Designed in the classical French Didot style but with a contemporary geometrical twist. F37 Bella is based on letterforms of American typographers; John Pistilli and Herb Lubalin, and Swiss typographer Jan Tschichold.


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