I receive a monthy newsletter from a website called My Fonts, and it's one of the coolest things I read. It highlights new fonts that are being made, and profiles the people who make them, and shows interesting ways that fonts are being used in the world. You get a whole new level of undersanding about how the way that words look can impact their meaning. I am not an artist, and if I were an artist, I think the last thing I would choose to do would be to draw entire alphabets by hand, but this stuff is fascinating! Every month, the editors profile a different font designer, and the profiles always have a great sense of history and energy. I love them. The newest edition of the newsletter, which you can read by clicking here -- My Fonts -- highlights the top ten fonts of 2008.Metroscript -- the font featured in the baseball design, above, and the number one font on MyFont's top ten list -- was designed by New York lettering artist Michael Doret who owns the digital foundary Alphabet Soup. Here's what MyFont says about Doret's inspiration: "Other than the Coney Island midway, the inspiration for his work has come from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater marquees, enamel signs, early and mid-20th century packaging, and various other American artifacts." See what I mean? There's something about that that is just cool.
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