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Wildcard

Contributed by Stephen Coles

Source: http://www.subtraction.com. License: All Rights Reserved.

“Hopefully it’s obvious that the mark is composed of three cards forming a W shape. But on a more subtle level, it’s also meant to represent the promise of what we’re trying to do at Wildcard: build a “third way” between today’s mobile browsers, which offer great breadth but poor user experiences, and native apps, which offer rich user experiences but poor breadth and relatively cumbersome access. The middle card, the gold one, is meant to represent the Wildcard alternative. The typeface is Chester Jenkins’ versatile and remarkably underused Galaxie Polaris, which we’ve adopted as our official font family.” — Khoi Vinh

Source: http://trywildcard.com. License: All Rights Reserved.

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How to emphasize body text?

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this…

I’ve been having trouble with emphasizing body text, for example one of the assignments I have is to create 3 different layouts for a greek letter. One for emphasis on the title, one for the symbol and one for the body text. The title and symbol are relatively easy but how can it be done for the body text? Also, you are only allowed to use a single font family.

I can’t seem to find any good examples of this done since usually the body text is not emphasized over the title/image :s

Here’s what I came up with so far :/

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ÜberFontFont FF Nexus

For the first ÜberFontFonts of 2014 we take a look at FF Nexus.

Nexus Showing

The hottest superfamily of the moment (and the highest climbing in our popularity charts) is the creation of Martin Majoor, the designer of FontFont favourites FF Scala and FF Seria. When Martin designed FF Scala and FF Scala Sans between 1988 and 1994, the idea was to design a serif, humanistic typeface from which a sans serif version would be derived. Martin called it: ‘two typefaces, one form principle.’ This became the basis of his type design philosophy. However ten years later he expanded it to ‘three typefaces, one form principle’, a Serif, a Sans and a Slab – and so the FF Nexus type system was born, consisting of FF Nexus Serif, FF Nexus Sans, the slab-like FF Nexus Mix – plus the additional monospaced FF Nexus Typewriter.

‘FF Nexus is, in my opinion, the best typeface I have created so far,’ says Majoor. ‘With FF Nexus Mix, I introduced a third family member in my type design philosophy, and I am happy that this slab version is not a stand-alone typeface; it feels best when accompanied by serif and sans.’

And as one of our top rated ÜberFontFonts, it is clear that FontFont users agree!

Nexus Principle

Nexus Italic

Nexus In-Use

Warsaw Autumn Festival 2008 booklet designed by Martin Majoor.

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