High Quality Free Font O’ The Week: Tartan Cabaret
Tartan Cabaret (shown above) is the latest offering from Chank Co and the result of a collaboration with Tim Degner and Carla Zetina-Yglesias. More about the project on the Chank Blog.

Aside from its playful vibe, the new font has great potential for customization. We are encouraged to add our own multi-color palette to bring out the true magic. Download it now. Offered free for a limited time, so snap it up today!

Bright Idea: Typo Lamp
Papercut lamp from 2008 Hungarian exhibition “The renaissance of the type.”

Limited Edition Print: A Typographic Anatomy Lesson
Having trouble telling a finial from a foot? Got your tail caught in your spur? Then you need the gorgeous Lesson Plan Print from Ligature, Loop & Stem. The FontFeed has a great write up and interview with Grant Hutchinson from LLS.

Further Reading: New Web-font standard gathers steam
More on The Web Open File Format via Microsoft.

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Poster: What type are you?
Good question by Maurício Cardoso on Flickr.

Art: Dublin signwriting project
Street artist Maser and singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey are collaborating on a project in Dublin inspired by the forgotten art of signwriting.

Further Reading: Classic Fonts For Contemporary Design
Nice overview on Jacob Cass’s blog. Typeface: Classic Typography for Contemporary Design is a book that showcases 46 classic fonts.

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Video: Font Fight
Epic battle between the gangs of Helvetica (who I’d always pictured as a blond for some reason) and Arial by the funny folks at CollegeHumor.com.

Freebies: Type Love Wallpaper
You’ll fall in love with these 5 fresh typography wallpapers.

Photos: Chicago type
An ongoing photo project by Shawn Hazen documenting interesting found typography in Chicago, Illinois. (via Swiss Legacy)

Further Reading: W3C Advances Web Font Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium is finally close to officially approving the Web Open File Format (WOFF) standard.

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Want: Cast Iron Ampersand
What’s 17 pounds, $250 and totally awesome? This thing. Part of Mashable’s collection of Top 10 Accessories for Typography Nuts.

History: The origins of ABC
Delightfully in-depth article on the development of the letter forms of the alphabet from the fine folks at I Love Typography.

Further Reading: OpenType myths explained
Ralf Herrmann shares everything you always wanted to know about OpenType but were afraid to ask.

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ListenUp! SMBMSP Podcast – July 2010
Rick Mahn and I also discuss plans for the upcoming paid membership model of SMBMSP and chat with Catherine Tryon, coordinator for the brand new SMB chapter in LaCrosse, WI.
ListenUp! SMBMSP Podcast – July 2010

Minnov8 Gang Podcast 86: Small Business is Social
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson. Guests: Bob Brin of Padilla Gorilla and myself. More details.
Minnov8 Gang Podcast

Video: Typomania
This quirky little video feels vaguely Sesame-Streetish with a British twist. Heed the words of the host, a real typographic designer, when he warns us that “Typomania is catching.” (via Abduzeedo)

Inspiration: Type Design Portfolio
Minneapolis dersigner Anne Ulku has showcased some amazing examples of her work in a fun, begging-to-be-explored tumbler interface. (via ChankFonts)

Photo: Movable Type Mingling
Love this shot by Meshl on Flickr

Further Reading: How To Implement Google Font API on Your Website
Easy-to-follow guide from Jacob Gube on Mashable.

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Public Service Announcement: We’re not a Lemonade Stand
This popped up all over the internets last week. (I’ve almost lost track of the number of people who sent this to me. Special thanks to studioloraine, Cheryl Smith & Bria)

Want: Alphabet Chairs
Check out these proto”types” by design student Roeland Otten.

Photos: Illustrated Alphabet
Anja Mulder’s gorgeous Illustrations & Typography Flickr set is a must see. (via Chank Diesel)

Experiment: Tilt-Shift text via CSS
Interactive designer Simurai has put a new spin on some of CSS3’s type effect features. His Tilt-Shift effect is pretty damn cool. (via Smashing Magazine)

Further Reading: Do typefaces really matter?
I love it when mainstream media gets geeky about typography. This interesting, and surprisingly humorous, BBC News article covers a lot of ground.

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More typographic goodness from around the web will be back next week.

Photo by Molly Des Jardin on Flickr

Tooting my own horn: Creating an Open Source Font (Video)
I have to admit it was an honor to make this video for my font designer hero, Chank Diesel. It chronicles his session on creating an open source font at FontConf last month. The result of that session is a cool OpenType font based on photos of arranged flower parts. The “T” is my work by the way.

CoCo Flowerfont (free download at chank.com), comes in three weights (Highlights, Shadows and Midtones) that allow you to create multi-color effects by using overlapping text layers. You can get even deeper behind the scenes and peruse the Flickr set of the photos used to create the characters. Check it out!

Around the Globe: The end of movable type in China
Graphic designer Cheryl Yau writes a fascinating piece at IDSGN on the declining state of letterpress in Hong Kong. (via Felt & Wire)

Weird News: Contest winner creates symbol for Indian rupee
India’s national currency, the rupee, was never represented by a symbol. That is until designer Udaya Kumar submitted his wining contest entry. Now his creation (shown above) joins the ranks of $, £, and €. The New York Times describes it as “a legless ‘R’ with two horizontal lines at the top. It’s very cool”. Kumar tells us the symbol is a blend between a letter from Devnagiri calligraphy and the letter “R.” More here.

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