Can you believe we’re already into the second month of the year? It feels like it’s taken us this long just to get back into our regular routine since Christmas. Dont tell anyone, but we didn’t even take our Christmas tree down until last weekend! In case you hadn’t noticed, we kind of dropped the ball last month with the …
It’s December first! You know what that means: snow days! Snowmen! Snow angels! Snow banks! And best of all, Christmas! Our celebration of Christmas went into full swing the day after Thanksgiving, but there’s just something about it being December that really jumpstarts the festivities. We’re almost ready to send out our own Christmas cards, and we’re throwing our second annual …
To welcome in the new month, we designed another desktop wallpaper free for download. Novemeber’s Face of Type is Egyptientto2 by deviantart user Bumbayo. We hope you love it! Below are links to download images based on your screen’s resolution. If your resolution isn’t available just leave a comment with your desired resolution and we would be happy to add another size …
Well, the birthday season for the Bartletts has officially come to an end. But that doesn’t mean celebrations are going to stop! This month is Halloween, and along with that comes an excuse to dress up in costumes together. Here is a brand new desktop wallpaper to get you in the mood for fall decorations. For the letter D we …
Last month was Jamie’s favorite, and September is mine. And it’s my favorite for the same reason: this month is my birthday! This month’s “Face of Type” is our personal favorite, Clarendon. It’s a clean, slab-serif font named after the Clarendon Press in Oxford. It was the first typeface to be registered and patented, but expired after three years and …
It’s August, my favorite month. Can you guess why? It’s my birthday month! This month for “Face of Type” we chose Bureau Grotesque. It is a wonderful, more condensed, san serif font perfect for display. Font Fun Fact: Bureau Grotesque is one of the fonts we use for A Pear of Pears’ Identity. Notice the word “Pears” in our blog’s header. Yep, that’s …
Happy July everybody! Can you believe it’s already July? This year is flying by. Today I’m excited to announce a new feature on our blog called The Face of Type. Each month Jake and I are going to pick one of our favorite typefaces, tell you a little about it and spruce up a letter from that face. We will be doing this …
