Beastie Boys plays with my type. Free font included.

“I won­der what’s hap­pen­ing to that ol’ 2001 type­face of mine”, I thought to myself. And now I know: Almost noth­ing is happening.

…except for the fact that Beastie Boys is using it in their media player! If you ask me, that’s pretty darn sweet. Pretty sweet to the max, if I may add.

I actu­ally stopped link­ing to this about four years ago, but since my teen-heroes could find a use for it; here it is again in all its free down­load­able glory.

It fea­tures lower-case and small­caps, as well as a few alter­na­tive char­ac­ters and a fake oblique.

Get it here:
Anton (open­type for Mac and PC)

If you use it for any­thing I’d be happy to hear about it!

Christianshavns Apothek

FontStruct font-building tool | TypeNeu.

Yes­ter­day I came across this excel­lent typog­ra­phy blog, Type­Neu, which at the same time had just posted this excit­ing news:

FontStruct font-building tool

FontShop have released FontStruct, an online free font-editor where every­body can join the fun and design their own type­faces, using an array of geo­met­ri­cal shapes and sim­ple tools. The result can be gen­er­ated as a true­type font which you can use on macs as well as pcs.

You’d think the nature of the pro­gram would pro­duce loads of min­i­mal­is­tic type­faces like this, but the gallery shows a lot of cre­ativ­ity, includ­ing this guy that have cre­ated a black­let­ter face!

If the author allows it, you can even clone their work and redesign it. This will surely be inter­est­ing to follow.

Hooray for FontShop and FontStruct!