Interview with designer Jordan Metcalf

Cape Town, South Africa. Jordan Metcalf gets a fanboy email from FORTPORT and is generous enough to answer a few questions from a stranger in Oregon. What an awesome morning it was to read his responses for breakfast. Who could predict Mr. Metcalf had such rich, true, and insightful comments in addition to his broad body of work and talent. Design without borders, insight worth... Read More

John Skelton, Typographer

More free stuff? Why not, it’s the future, copyleft, share alike, all that stuff. Bonus; this typography is gorgeous. Portland is a happy home for designer John Skelton, who shares all his typefaces with the world on his site. My favorite is the black and white number, called Pinpressions. John Skelton | Afrojet (where you can download each of these fonts + others)  Read More

Aboriginal typeface

In doing some research for a school project I discovered the Canadian province of Nunavut has created its own typeface! Interesting, I’m totally intrigued. It’s called Pigiarniq. The latin portion of the alphabet is quite lovely, and then the Aboriginal portion is just incredible. So it’s basically a geometry class, to check out their phonetics. Tiro Typeworks... Read More