Comments on: 20 Creative and Unique Typefaces

By: Dean Marshall

Dean Marshall — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:31:17 +0000

I know I’m late to the party having just stumbled upon this article but I had to comment. I just had to say that I’d find most of these fonts unusable. Following the principle of “don’t make me think” as espoused by Steve Krug, I think a font that requires two seconds per character to decipher has a very limited use case.

They may be ‘creative’, they may be ‘unique’ but are they readable??

By: Theraisa K

Theraisa K — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:12:02 +0000

There’s a lot of creative fonts in here. Don’t think I’d use many of them in client projects, but they might be fun to play around with for personal/side projects with a limited audience viewing :)

By: Detmas

Detmas — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:00:00 +0000

Wonderful post and very creative typefaces however, Skinographie ie #2 is still not clear to me. It looks disgusting like you said but I still wanted to make a deduction from it. Anyway Good job.

By: shoaib

shoaib — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:34:09 +0000

love all the fonts,but hate the skinographie it really is annoying.

By: Maiana

Maiana — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:49:21 +0000

Iguess…you did it on porpouse, put in the begining the Skinographie…it’s disgusting!but some of the others are really fashionable and trendy, Thanks.

By: Rich R

Rich R — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:46:48 +0000

Awesome list of resources! Thank you for sharing.

I would just like to add one more set of typography resources and that is the forum of http://www.pilo.me

It is a private typography forum with an unbelievable amount of free fonts, premium fonts and exclusive typefaces. I think it was voted the best typography forum of 2009. If you are a font lover/addict, check it out. Like I said though, it is either private or invite only. I have never seen a typography site like it with all it has to offer. Anyhow, check it out, pilo.me

Anyhow, great article, I definitely will be referring to these time to time.

By: Enno

Enno — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:38:28 +0000

Yeah … but in the introduction the fonts are positioned against Helvetica and Co (and the author probably by that meant also fonts like Frutiger or Univers which in my eyes stand above any criticism). This is clearly comparing apples with pears. I found this page when looking for a ‘sustainable typeface’ because I had heard about the ink saving font (so it did the job for me). However: all the other fonts are nice toys but not what one can use on day-to-day basis – say in corporate design. And the ink saving font is actually a joke too …

Nothing really useful on this page, but nice to look at.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:31:24 +0000

Everyone complaining about these are morons, as if the people who created them intended for them to be used in the printing of a novel! Read the title again… “Creative & Unique Typefaces” which is exactly what they are. And if you can’t see how any of these could be used or what one would do with them, then you are a terrible designer with no artistic ability whatsoever.

By: Naruto

Naruto — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:47:59 +0000

the skinographie was gross it made me wanta puke

By: ze

ze — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:23:03 +0000

In Skinographie font, I think the ‘r’ was made with someone’s butt… o_O