Type Love 159: Detroit

Match & Kerosense, the type foundry and design stu­dio of Alex Sheldon, is killing it with their releases lately. The lat­est edi­tion to the library is Detroit, a 12 font sys­tem that can be lay­ered to cre­ate numer­ous typo­graphic effects. I will def­i­nitely be pick­ing this one up next time I do some type shop­ping. Purchase a copy for your­self at My Fonts.

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4 Comments

  1. Connie @ Daydream In Color
    Posted September 15, 2011 at 4:09 pm | Permalink

    This is so cool! Definitely on my wish list…

  2. nancy babb
    Posted September 16, 2011 at 12:35 am | Permalink

    Can’t believe it, I JUST did some­thing sim­i­lar… Not really, I just made a three color font + out­line col­ors. And I’m about to add even more to it. Come check it out… http://​www​.blog​ger​.com/​b​l​o​g​g​e​r​.​g​?​b​l​o​g​I​D​=​6​0​2​7​4​6​2​2​3​4​8​1​4​2​7​8​6​7​8​#​e​d​i​t​o​r​/​t​a​r​g​e​t​=​p​o​s​t​;​p​o​s​t​I​D​=​5​5​5​7​9​8​9​5​9​6​3​0​2​3​2​6​849

  3. nancy babb
    Posted September 16, 2011 at 1:22 am | Permalink

    sorry I gave you the wrong link!

    http://​nan​cy​babb​-classes​.blogspot​.com/​2​0​1​1​/​0​9​/​m​o​n​d​a​y​-​i​-​m​a​d​e​-​t​h​i​s​-​t​r​u​e​-​t​y​p​e​-​f​o​n​t​-​b​u​t​.​h​tml

  4. visualingual
    Posted September 16, 2011 at 8:49 am | Permalink

    Wow, Detroit looks awe­some. I have to point out a bit of his­tor­i­cal trivia, how­ever — the designer P. Scott Makela cre­ated a type­face called Detroit back in the mid to late 90s. This isn’t to say that there can’t be another type­face with the same name, just that it’s not the only one [and maybe there are oth­ers as well].

    I strug­gled to find a good exam­ple of it online. It’s the smaller type on the cover of Whereishere, a book put out by Scott and his wife Laurie.

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