Top fonts
Well it's been a while since my last post, mainly due to being away over the weekend at Semi-Permanent so I thought I should do another post. After seeing Alex Trochut at Semi-Permanent I've been really inspired to do some research about typefaces and fonts. In doing so I have come across a couple of sites that list a number of the best fonts available.
The first is http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/great-fonts-for-web-2.0 which lists what it regards as some of the best Web 2.0 fonts. I found it really interesting as it shows you not only the fonts themselves but some sites and logos that use them. Out of all the fonts listed I must say my favourite is Frutiger. It is very clean and has some nice variety in the different weights it comes in.
The second site I found is http://www.fontshop.com/features/newsletters/jan08a/ which has the top ten typefaces of 2007. The selection here is a little more interesting than the previous site as it contains a mixture of serif and sans-serif fonts as well as some based on handwriting. I really like the ARS Maquette font as it is very clean and stylish. I also like FF Meta Serif, a really nice looking serif font and Armchair Modern, a very fine stylised sans-serif font.
As I mentioned before I was really inspired by Alex Trochut's work. Before seeing him speak I had never thought of typography as interesting. I particularly liked his piece called rolled gold and would love to experiment with something similar myself.