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You work for them (+) 01/11/2010
What happens when you explore type without the typographer’s eye in mind? What happens when you take type out of the centuries old, black and white, static world of type specimens?CDKVW is a YouWorkForThem short that takes five various fonts… (+)
You work for them (+) 01/11/2010
This has been making the type world rounds lately, U&lc has started posted some free PDF downloads of old back issues. They are not the best scans (did they scan these during a Christmas office party?) but they are free, available… (+)
You work for them (+) 12/10/2010
We are extremely excited to announce the addition of URW++ to our font library. URW++ has been at the forefront of digital typography since the early 1970‘s. From design classics like Paul Renner’s Futura to Oswald Bruce Cooper’s Cooper, they have designe (+)
You work for them (+) 06/10/2010
We are not sure why we never thought of doing this, but who cares now because our friend Network Osaka has done it. N.Osaka is a fellow admirer of swiss design (who isn’t though, really) and created these wallpapers for… (+)
You work for them (+) 25/08/2010
We have had many new designer/foundry additions to our site in the past month, one of the biggest being the addition of the font foundry Insigne. Insigne will be bringing hundreds of new fonts to our font collection, with already over 200… (+)
You work for them (+) 04/08/2010
After the interesting discoveries we made while creating Typography in Water, we figured it was best to continue exploring this nature versus type theme. This time around we explored freezing type to see what sort of visual oddities might arise. While… (+)
You work for them (+) 29/07/2010
Cumulus and Foam has been making the press rounds lately with mentions in Print Magazine, It’s Nice That, Selectism, and linkage on NOTCOT, Unstrung, and involved in a so-called debate on QBN of what is considered beautiful. As well, our Behance project f (+)
You work for them (+) 13/07/2010
When Stefan Kjartansson first sent us Cumulus and Foam, we asked him what sort of conceptual keywords would he attach to his beautiful monster. He gave us terms like Abortion, Brothels, Rabies, Fake Orgasms, Bacteria, Victorian Wigs & Cappuccino Froth… (+)
You work for them (+) 12/07/2010
Cumulus & Foam, the most beautifully grotesque font of our time. After many years of fine tuning and development, Stefan Kjartansson’s (designer of Black Slabbath) magnificent monster is now available for you to purchase. In honor of this very special occ (+)
You work for them (+) 18/06/2010
Studio Newwork have let us know that issue 5 is now available! You can pick it up online at Hugo & Marie or visit their site to see who’s carrying it in your neighborhood. Happy Friday! (+)
You work for them (+) 16/06/2010
We are proud to announce we will be sponsoring this year’s TypeCon, the premier conference related to font design. This year’s event will be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in West Los Angeles, from August 17-22, 2010. Check… (+)
You work for them (+) 03/06/2010
We would like to take a quick breather right now to announce some new font designers on the site. First, over the next few weeks/months we will be adding designs from the massive collection of Intellecta Design, a Brazilian type foundry focused on… (+)
You work for them (+) 12/05/2010
We had a few minutes of down time today after lunch and did some searching for ‘Font’ on Vimeo to see what was new. This isn’t new, but boy it sure is amazing! Talk about some free time!… (+)
You work for them (+) 30/04/2010
Some of you may recall a little font release by the name of Black Slabbath that we launched back in 2008. Well, the designer of that fantastic font release is back at it again. Stefan Kjartansson is this designer in mention and… (+)
You work for them (+) 26/04/2010
Look out, Clark W. Griswold, because Soaka just parked on your front lawn. Soaka is the grotesque, raw, country cousin of our slab serifs Motown and Lollop, and brings the pain when you’re facing down those rough Cobra Kai design jobs in… (+)
You work for them (+) 20/04/2010
Mr. Kiji graduated from RISD with a degree in industrial design in 2003 but since then has been focusing on his main passion, drawing! Most impressive to me is his ability to cover a wide range of styles & techniques, something… (+)
You work for them (+) 20/04/2010
Some of you may already know, but we have been developing and maintaining a little image blog/community called Buamai since late 2008. We recently did a little spring cleaning on the code and layout of the site, making for a much… (+)
You work for them (+) 19/04/2010
We are proud to announce two more amazing type foundries have joined our library, say hello to TipografiaRamis & Positype. Launching with over 20+ fonts between the two of them, they bring us amazing new scripts, serifs and sans-serifs. We are… (+)
You work for them (+) 15/04/2010
Set the wayback machine for January, 2010: Network Osaka sends us their beautiful new serif, titled Haute. Immediately, it starts on a rapid climb toward becoming one of the year’s biggest sellers, and becomes a top-notch addition to the YouWorkForThem Ex (+)
You work for them (+) 14/04/2010
Today we came across this amazing highlight reel of logo work, which has been posted into five different pages: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four & Part Five. Such a very nice roundup of imagery from Al Cooper’s book. (Via… (+)
You work for them (+) 07/04/2010
We came across The Typography Manual in the Apple Appstore just a week or so ago when searching for type related apps and almost snagged it. We have not purchased it yet, but it looks to be a nice one for all… (+)
You work for them (+) 05/04/2010
As Yves Saint Laurent said, “fashions fade, style is eternal.” And there ain’t no style like Underware style. For more than a decade these pan-Euro design virtuosos have been mastering scripts and opentype technology, and it is our great privilege to… (+)
You work for them (+) 05/04/2010
YouWorkForThem cannot stress enough how psyched we are to have P22 onboard. These are old-school font masters who have been ruling artist-inspired digital fonts for almost 20 years, and they handle some of the worlds most renowned titles. Based on the… (+)
You work for them (+) 28/03/2010
Our friends over at Need Supply Co have been making great use of Press Gothic recently, the excellent and affordable ($19.95) sans-serif from Canada Type. The images above show that even though this font has a conservative, bold and authoritative presence (+)
You work for them (+) 28/03/2010
Mr Josh Boston just tipped us off to his most recent project, the Ford Fiesta San Diego Field Guide. The final project made great use of numerous YWFT fonts and handset designs, see if you can spot them all!… (+)
You work for them (+) 20/03/2010
Frederico Antunes just wrote in to let us know he used WYLD as well for a skate magazine he designed recently. Very nice usage and you can grab the PDF to see more examples. (+)
You work for them (+) 18/03/2010
Some very interesting type compositions/designs going on over at Neue Magazine. The recent project is about Barcelona, which also features a design by our very own Jackkrit Anantakul and his handset design Gavin. (+)
You work for them (+) 18/03/2010
The French graphic designers MM/Paris have just published this release about a beautiful hand-set ,alphabet design they designed for the luxury fashion brand Prada. You can find more details at the MM/Paris website and also in this PDF they released.… (+)
You work for them (+) 17/03/2010
Not sure we can classify this as an actual font, but we get the idea here. As URIKANE states, yes it seems he has way to much free time. (+)
You work for them (+) 22/02/2010
For the past five weeks, our in-house designer Jackkrit Anantakul has been sketching, scanning and designing his latest font (handset) design, entitled Gavin. When all was said and done, the concept sketches had over 1100 letter designs, from which we nar (+)
You work for them (+) 15/02/2010
This calendar design is our most recent collaboration with our friends at Need Supply. For this project we were happy to consult them to use Olivier Gourvat’s Sofia, which turned out really nice. They also worked with illustrator Emerald Grippa for the wo (+)
You work for them (+) 02/01/2010
It is that time again where we count down from 1 to 10, our top selling fonts of the past year. While we see a shift in what was hot in 2009 versus the year before, we also see favorites… (+)
You work for them (+) 31/12/2009
We mentioned a few posts ago some big changes were coming in 2010, and over the next few weeks I will be announcing many of these. One of the interesting new things will be our recent new creative collaboration with… (+)
You work for them (+) 12/11/2009
Our hot font release of 2009, Agostina, recently made an appearance in this years hollywood action film Crank: High Voltage. Used during two different sequences in the film, Agostina puts on its dancing shoes and shines. Much thanks to the… (+)
You work for them (+) 27/10/2009
We have been having a great month for fonts, with many new designers joining the team and designing many new handsets and opentype collections. One of our latest designers to join the team is Ashkahn. We though we would take… (+)
You work for them (+) 30/09/2009
Really enjoying some of the type work by Richard Sarson, very clean, simple and smooth. (+)
You work for them (+) 18/09/2009
Ben recently won our typography grant over at Society6. We thought we should show you some of his work and let him introduce himself with this little interview.Name: Ben TuberCompany: Working on it.Website: Also working on it (in the meantime just go… (+)
You work for them (+) 24/08/2009
LOREM IPSUM VADE MECUM is a publication we’ve pieced together to provide our community with insightful content about typography and other design topics while utilizing our versatile font collection. LOREM includes articles from Design Assembly, Willi Kun (+)
You work for them (+) 03/06/2009
We are proud to be a sponsor of this year’s TypeCon 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. If you don’t know what TypeCon is, it is the leading conference in America on all that is Type. On top of being one of the main… (+)
You work for them (+) 02/06/2009
For the month of June, 50% of proceedings of ywft bestseller Black Slabbath will be donated to Justin Van Hoy as he bravely battles leukemia. Buy Black Slabbath, attend a Dutch party in a city near you or donate directly on his website. (+)
You work for them (+) 01/06/2009
One of the most common questions is that people can’t get their OpenType fonts to work. We would like to spread some knowledge and let you all know how to access your fonts etc. One great resource is Adobe’s OpenType section. They have a video tour, chara (+)
You work for them (+) 28/05/2009
I think I might have seen the work of Richard Perez first on ffffound and then traced it back to his site, but then immediately I started seeing him in a few other spots and was really impressed. He can do the fun 50’s illustration that we all love these (+)
You work for them (+) 25/05/2009
Apply is a free texture tool that allows you to customize any font you wish with an array of inky splatters and sprays. Copy your type layer and paste in place, then change the top layer to the Apply OpenType font to easily get the desired effect. Downloa (+)
You work for them (+) 18/05/2009
I’m trying to get this posted before Matt walks in the door. He’s been coming into our office lately to work on some new fonts, because this office is a designated typographic zone. When Matt isn’t making fonts he’s filming, experimenting with photograph (+)
You work for them (+) 08/05/2009
We are a little late on this, but the Fleuron posted a list of their Top 10 Type Foundries You Should Know About. We are happy to be included amongst them.What are some of your favorite type foundries (other than us, of course)? (+)
You work for them (+) 27/04/2009
About a month ago we released a new font, Matter. We felt it would be beneficial to go an extra mile and create a small PDF zine to further show the typographic value of Matter.Download the Matter Zine (Right-Click, Save As) (+)
You work for them (+) 27/04/2009
From the big wigs over at Canada Type we now have their second bundled collection. This set includes 14 different type families and a total 31 different font weights and variations. So go ahead, revive and freshen up your font collection with this super d (+)
You work for them (+) 21/04/2009
If you’re in Minneapolis tonight, PB&J (Peter, Bjorn, and John) are playing a show with Chairlift at the Fine Line Music Cafe. This beautiful poster was screen printed by Mr. EMQUINN and features a YouWorkForThem typeface Augustus designed by Karl Frankow (+)
You work for them (+) 13/04/2009
A behind the scenes look at our new handset font, Michel. The letters were created by a wild, untamed river of ink carried by water’s movement across the page. (+)
You work for them (+) 27/03/2009
Matt Desmond’s new font, Bandoleer, got us into a little bit of organizing before the weekend so we added a Stencil category under Fonts.Stencil Fonts (+)