Tracking the timeliest type trends is nothing new ’round the Awesome Blog. But, rarely do these posts share the secrets behind designing these fonts.
So, thanks Graphic Alerts! They’ve cobbled together 33 of their favorite tutorials for designing these fonts in Photoshop. Check out the collection here.

This season, if you want to be the envy of all your friends, perhaps you should slim down a bit. Shed some of those thick curves. Make it so your friends just can’t resist screaming, “OMG, that font is SOOO slimming on you!!!”
Wait, we’re talking about fonts?
Yup. Suddenly, we’ve noticed a number of posts on [...]

Ruben Miller passes along 24 (yes, that number is wrong in TWO different places on his site, but still) imaginative alphabets created from everything ranging from butterfly wings to human hair to raw meat to toilet paper. (Wow, that list went downhill fast, didn’t it?)
See the collection here. Plenty of very creative executions.

Gaaah! We’re falling a bit behind as things are getting busy ’round here. It’s also been a while since we’ve served up some tasty typography, so here’s a link to a nice little collection of 14 (not 15) slick typography posters, one video, and one bar of typography… soap? Yep, you read that right.
And if [...]

When it comes to movie trailers these days, you pretty much know what you’re going to get. There’s the subdued romantic comedy masquerading as an “independent film,” the buxom young girls who scream their heads off instead of simply avoiding the murderer, the “let’s just blow some $#!% up” blockbusters, and Sasha Baron-Cohen’s genitals. That [...]

… although we’d be the first to admit it’s kinda awesome.
But still, why destroy our wonderful office library when you can just check out Brian Dettmer’s “book autopsies” down the street at the Packer Schopf Gallery (through July 2)?
Dettmer carves up various tomes to reveal the artwork (and select passages) contained inside, and the results [...]

Yup, the title really says it all.
Check out all 40 of Typographica’s faves, plus a handful of honorable mentions, right here.
Mmmm, ham sandwich…

Oh boy… like my friends who insistently berate Denis Leary for ripping off Bill Hicks needed any more ammo…
Granted, the text in the above commercial wasn’t designed by Leary or anything, but with the same style popping up here and here (and reported on by the Awesome Blog way back here)… oh, and in another car commercial (!) here, it sure is a mighty [...]

A is for Awesome.
And for All our Acquaintances who Are Always Amped for Another Awesome typeface, get Acquainted with ‘Garamond Powerline‘ right At this Address (scroll All the way down to Access All of the Alphabet).
Alliteration… Annoying or Awesome?
Thanks to Kelly VonEbers for passing this Along.

“The Rather Difficult Font Game”Oh, you crazy kids and your font identifying games.  We know y’all love your typography, so brag about your top scores in the comments below.