Font Friday: Monroe

Happy Font Friday! This will be my last font friday post of 2011! Font goodness will pick up again in 2012, and I feel like I am ending the year with a good one....

The latest font that I have my eye on (and one that I am very very close to buying), is Monroe.

Monroe is by Sudtipos and comes in Light, Bold and Black (oh, which one to choose?!) and has so many alternates that the combinations really are endless. I don't have a specific project in mind for this, but I really really want to play with all those alternates! Maybe Santa will bring me some font money for Christmas.

For more font love, don’t forget to check out the picks of my favorite font friends: Alexandra & Craig from The Aerialist Press, Allison at Allison Owen Design, Anna from And Everything Nice, Jen from Blush Printables, Sophia and Andre at Brancoprata, Steph from Bubblerock, Cecile of Cecile Paper Lounge, Catherine at Design Editor,  Laurel at Go Against the Grain, Jenny from Hank + Hunt, Allie at Honey Bee Invites, Lauren from Lauren Elise Crafted, Jenna and Elizabeth from Little Bit Heart, Kerry from Super Swoon, Vicki from Vicki Designer and Wendy at Weswen Design (#fontfriday on twitter)

Font Friday: Mary Read

Mary Read and Mary Read Italic are the lovely typefaces of Melle Diete, and I am really loving the variety of weights, swashes, ligatures between the two fonts. When there's so much to work with you can really make the font your own!

Running at about $40 each, you probably can't snag them all, but choose a favorite weight or two and have fun! You can purchase one or all of the Mary Read fonts here!

For more font love, don’t forget to check out the picks of my favorite font friends: Alexandra & Craig from The Aerialist Press, Allison at Allison Owen Design, Anna from And Everything Nice, Jen from Blush Printables, Sophia and Andre at Brancoprata, Steph from Bubblerock, Cecile of Cecile Paper Lounge, Catherine at Design Editor,  Laurel at Go Against the Grain, Jenny from Hank + Hunt, Allie at Honey Bee Invites, Lauren from Lauren Elise Crafted, Jenna and Elizabeth from Little Bit Heart, Kerry from Super Swoon, Vicki from Vicki Designer and Wendy at Weswen Design (#fontfriday on twitter)

Font Friday: Tart Workshop

There's no secret that I love handwritten fonts (see here and here), but lately I've been particularly smitten with the fonts from Tart Workshop. Tart Workshop is the collaboration between illustrator Crystal Kluge and typographer Stuart Sandler of Font Diner, and together they create beautiful hand-lettered typefaces.

A few of my favorites are Nelly Script, Bookeyed Jack, Bookeyed Susan and Silverstein. While these are no strangers to my Font Friday friends, if you are looking for some new affordable handwritten fonts, look no further than here. With most of the fonts costing about $29.95, they are easy to get their hands on and worth every penny.

Don't have the extra cash? Get a little taste of Tart for FREE by downloading Mountains of Christmas here.

For more font love, don’t forget to check out the picks of my favorite font friends: Alexandra & Craig from The Aerialist Press, Allison at Allison Owen Design, Anna from And Everything Nice, Jen from Blush Printables, Sophia and Andre at Brancoprata, Steph from Bubblerock, Cecile of Cecile Paper Lounge, Catherine at Design Editor,  Laurel at Go Against the Grain, Jenny from Hank + Hunt, Allie at Honey Bee Invites, Lauren from Lauren Elise Crafted, Jenna and Elizabeth from Little Bit Heart, Kerry from Super Swoon, Vicki from Vicki Designer and Wendy at Weswen Design (#fontfriday on twitter)

Font Friday: Gelateria

Sometimes you fall in font love when you see it used in a design by another designer. That's how I fell for Gelateria, this fun retro font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. Laura Hankins, a fellow Minted designer, used Gelateria recently in a wedding invitation design challenge. I am a fan of Laura's designs and love the feminine, retro feel of this invitation.

Gelateria was based on shop front lettering and advertisements from the 1950s. At only $20, it's a great deal and even though I've already exceeded my font budget for the week month, I might go snag this right now. What's another 20 bucks right?

For more font love, don’t forget to check out the picks of my favorite font friends: Alexandra & Craig from The Aerialist Press, Allison at Allison Owen Design, Anna from And Everything Nice, Jen from Blush Printables, Sophia and Andre at Brancoprata, Steph from Bubblerock, Vicki from Vicki Designer, Catherine at Design Editor,  Laurel at Go Against the Grain, Jenny from Hank + Hunt, Allie at Honey Bee Invites, Lauren from Lauren Elise Crafted, Jenna and Elizabeth from Little Bit Heart, Kerry from Super Swoon and Wendy at Weswen Design (#fontfriday on twitter)

Font Friday: A Giveaway

Instead of just featuring a font this week, we are doing a little (well, it's actually kind of big) collaborative giveaway with Jason Mark Jones, the designer of the font, Skunkling.  All the #FontFriday gals are designing free printables using this fun font AND you can win a free copy of Skunkling to create some designs of your own.

In the spirit of the holidays, I created some cute little holiday gift tags. Print, cut and tie them onto your gifts!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PRINTABLE FILE

Head on over to Design Editor to learn how to win your copy of Skunkling and check out each of my #fontfriday friends to download their printables. Enjoy!

Alexandra & Craig from The Aerialist Press, Allison at Allison Owen Design, Jen from Blush Printables, Sophia and Andre at Brancoprata, Steph from Bubblerock, Catherine at Design Editor,  Laurel at Go Against the Grain, Jenny from Hank + Hunt, Allie at Honey Bee Invites, Lauren from Lauren Elise Crafted, Jenna and Elizabeth from Little Bit Heart, Kerry from Super Swoon and Wendy at Weswen Design (#fontfriday on twitter)