Giles Hoover

Photography and design for print production

Tag: free

  • Letterpress Typeface from Plymouth Press

    Letterpress Typeface from Plymouth Press

    James Brocklehurst is leading a new kind of innovation method for typography, harking back to the good old days of the letterpress. The technology uses scanned letterpress prints for each letter, and through scripting, randomly cycl[ing] through a range of alternate letterforms whilst you type.

    The font uses OpenType scripting to automatically cycle through a range of alternate glyphs for each character, giving a ‘random’ appearance as you type. (Alternates can also be chosen manually in supported applications.) Very nice, and if you jump through some hoops, some neat results:

    Letterpress type, digitally

    It’s display only — no numbers, limited punctuation — but absolutely worth the download. And did I mention it’s free? Go!

    (Via It’s Nice That. Thank you.)

  • Hyperallergic on Letterform Archives

    “The digital Letterform Archive has made nearly 1,500 objects accessible to browse online through over 9,000 high-resolution images,” Hyperallergic notes. Some good background here, too. Check it out.

  • The Online Archive Is Now Open to All

    With nearly 1,500 objects and 9,000 hi-fi images, Letterform Archive offers unprecedented virtual access to our collection.

    —Online Archive

    Enjoy!

  • New Creative Commons Search

    Looking for imagery for your book cover? Creative Commons features a library of more than 300 million images, indexed from 19 different collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, DeviantArt, Behance, and Flickr. Images can be searched using keywords and filter the results based on the license type and/or the collection from which the content is sourced, essential for book design — as the vast majority of covers require commercial licenses.