reorganizing my crazy

looking back through all my posts lately, it seems like this blog has turned into a blog of a typenut on acid. yes, i've gone obsessed with hoarding all my love of typefaces into this blog and it has taken over my life, basically. so, i will now redirect your attention to a new blog i'll be managing from time to time, which will only specifically be for the side of me that's crazy about all things fonts, typefaces and typography. if you are following the free font fridays series, or the typenut series in its entirety, please update your RSS or links or whatever to this blog. thank you.

free font friday

1. Alice


i think this one makes really nice logotypes.

2. Harabara


this one would be great as headliners. especially in lowercase.

3. Kimberley


4. Hattori Hanzo


5. Jalene

free font friday

1. SquareTypeB




2. Flaminia Type System




3. Titilium




4. Val



5. Nevis

free font friday

it's time again. i hope you guys are collecting, or else i'm just wanking, like i always do with this blog.

1. Lobster : it's one of my favorite scripts. but i can't seem to find the opportunity to try in on for size in my poster design works.



2. Base



3. laconic



4. Nobile. it's now a webfont. yeay if i know what that means!



5. Deibi 1.0

free font friday

Sorry i miss this last week.

1. Philosopher



2. Amperzand



3. Sansation



4. Hetilica Bold



5. Giro

free font friday

more of my favourite free fonts for you to download. yes, i'm turning people into me, so at least i don't feel so crazy. enjoy!

1. CP MONO


so pretty and corporate, right?

2. Learning Curve



3. Maniackers


4. Molot


5. Juice



6. Ovalian

if free fonts you want, free fonts you shall have

seems like my reputation precedes me. now people are saying that i'm obsessed. maybe i am, why not, it's a good thing to be obsessed about. and people are popping up asking me about the fonts and typefaces that i have featured in this blog and asking me where i got them. (alah, just here and here pun, bukan banyak. the others tu are my wishlist).

Well, true, i've downloaded some of them, mostly the free ones, but some, came with the computer i have in the office - meaning it's been bought or collected by the company or was given as part of client's CI (corporate identity). but anyway, since i'm such a in a giving mood because i dreamed of My Little Pony and Care Bears last night, i'm giving you the links to where you can get some of my favorite free fonts. knock yourselves out. (i think the fonts are compatible for both Mac and PC. if not, then i'm sorry)

1. Museo, Museo Sans & Museo Slab







2. Fertigo Pro


3. Mentone


4. District Thin


5. Anivers


6. Fontin Sans


A little backstory, coz you know, everything needs to revolve around me. that's how i roll :

i've always liked typography and typefaces since i was in school. only at that time, computers scared the shit out of me. (believe it or not, i did not have an email address until 2000 when my cousin set it up for me while i was Perth for 2 months). so during high school, i've always been attracted to creating custom handwriting and doodling in typography. and that, i thought, was what graphic design was all about. yes, i was stupid but not too far off. one of my favorite subjects during my graphic design studies was typography.

one of the projects that we had to do was to create our own typeface using whatever material we can find, and indian ink. and then we had to pick on a character and create a pattern out of that one letter. everything was done oldskool. by hand. no computers. fuck, we rule! and then we had to trace the frontpage of a newspaper and write the whole damn thing back using the typeface that we've created. it's one ugly ass front page for a newspaper, i must say. it took forever to get done but it's one of the many projects that i actually loved doing. i remember what my Arwah Grandmother said to my mom when she saw me all bent up in every yoga position when i was doing that project, she said "Lisha tu belajar apa sebenarnya? Menconteng-conteng je?" . She never really understood what i do.

although now i'm not directly involved in doing designs at work, i still keep a strong interest in type. i can even tell who's the designer based on his preferred use of fonts alone. yeah, maybe i'm a little obsessed. i'm all kinds of crazy and that's why you love me.

P/S : i'm tempted to give EVERY free font i love but you know what? maybe i should keep some for later. maybe i should do this on a weekly basis, and introduce Free Font Friday (yeah so what if i'm not the first blog to do this). what do you think about it?

font wishlist : Part 2

i have a font wishlist that can circle the earth 18 times. right now, i have about 120, give or take. and it's ever-growing. i have revealed 13 from the top of my list. now and in due time, i'll reveal more. here's 12.

14. FF Zine Slab


15. FF Strada


16. Brevia


17. Knight Sans



18. Vekta



19. Tee Franklin by Suomi



20. Adios Gringo by T.26


21. Tooting Sans


22. Sniker Bold


23. Copy Semi Grotesk


24. Corisande


25. Enzyme