// THE CHALLENGE
Create a masthead for a magazine called “Slasher”.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.
// REQUIREMENTS
- Image size: 550 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and White only (Red optional)
- Format: JPG or PNG
// ABOUT TYPOPHILE TYPE BATTLES
This is your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. You have one week to create and submit your entry. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.
Hi, Does Anyone know the font used for vintage NY Subway signs dating around 1904 - 1940? I’m trying to create a painting but need to know the exact font type. I’ve attached two images for reference. Many Thanks!


// THE CHALLENGE
Search out and take a picture of interesting, hand-drawn lettering. Then, design a set of numerals (0, 1, 2, 3, ...9) in the style of the found lettering. Be sure to submit a photo of the original with your design.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.
// REQUIREMENTS
- Image size: 550 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and White only (for the design)
- Format: JPG or PNG
// ABOUT TYPOPHILE TYPE BATTLES
If Johnny Cash were a typeface which would he be? Perhaps something honest, cryptic, charming, humble or brooding?
I’m currently working on a brief based on a typographic portrayal of his ’Man In Black’ so any suggestions on typefaces relating to the song in particular would be great also, although i guess Cash’s personality and the song itself are going to have similar references.
Again, any suggestions welcome.
Cheers
It was announced in the news last week that Circuit City, a major US electronics retailer, has filed for bankruptcy protection amid a weak economy. According to CNN, the company plans to keep its remaining stores open through bankruptcy proceedings and encourages consumers to continue shopping at its stores.
Typophiles, how can you as type and/or graphic designers help Circuit City in these pressing times?
// TYPE BATTLE 29
Design a new logo (or logotype) for Circuit City. Extra points for creating additional branded examples to support your design.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.
// REQUIREMENTS
Hi, Does anyone knows which font is this one?
is used by Research Studios in Paris 2012 Olympic Comittee Book
Thanks

I have extolled the many of virtues of IKEA before, but did you know IKEA has a Swedish food market?
Get your Omega fatty acids from the land of Volvo, ABBA, and people with Legoland haircuts. Try the many seafood products IKEA supplies, particularly salmon fish—as frozen blocks, or cured and spiced as Gravlax filets, even in paste form. This leads me to my little font-in-use discovery:
Abba Seafoods (no relation to the dancing queens) uses FontSmith Albert for their product labeling.




// TYPE BATTLE 28
1. Create an alphabet Draw the letters in the word 'defiant' where the stem width is 1/2 the x-height.
2. Then, design the word "defiant". Extra points for creating an fi ligature.
Winner take all, no holds barred. May the best designer win.
// REQUIREMENTS
- Image size: 550 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and White only
- Format: JPG or PNG
// ABOUT TYPOPHILE TYPE BATTLES