As a graphic designer, I love fonts, and you probably do too,
so I thought I'd just make an easy, really laid back video
about fonts that I love to use.
And these are very unique as well.
I've mentioned them before, but here's a list correlating with
links in the description of all these fonts if you want to go
check them out.
These aren't in the order of my favorites, but the first one is Humane.
Humane is from Rajesh Rajput, and it's an amazingly clean
condensed sans serif display typeface.
It's so condensed, but it still has great readability, which
gives it a cinematic feeling.
Everyone's got a phone and it's all vertical, and this typeface
does wonders for that.
You'll see a lot of people using condensed sans serif
typefaces on Instagram when creating carousels because
they can fit more information on there and it's still clear and legible.
And because we've sort of moved away from 16x9 to 9x16
on our phone displays through like TikTok and YouTube shorts
this typeface works wonders.
But not only that, it's variable as well.
It's got so many weights, and you can change the weight of it easily.
If you don't know a variable font
is essentially a way of using a slider to change how
bold it is or how wide or how italicized it is.
Best part about it is that it is technically free, but
I would go ahead and support Rajesh by clicking the link down below.
The second font that I've been loving recently is Lisbeth and
it's on Adobe Fonts.
So if you have an Adobe subscription to the Creative Cloud
then you have all these fonts at your disposal, like
Lisbeth and loads of other ones.
You can definitely tell that it's very unique.
It reads really nicely though, and because we're in this sort
of weird time where a lot of people are using retro serifs
and retro sans serifs, this font is kind of in between.
It's got this strange pattern all the way through.
It feels very organic and trippy.
The display font is very unique.
However, the other fonts within it, within the typeface, really
complements it well.
They're a lot easier to read for the body text or maybe the
subtitles, but it's just essentially a great font pairing.
I love it. Again on Adobe Fonts, so go ahead and click to
activate them if you already have it.
The next one, which is probably one of my most favorite recently
as you see in a lot of my Instagram post, is Monarcha.
Again, this is on Adobe Fonts.
It is a serif typeface with a retro feel.
It has rounded terminals and also quite a high x height,
giving it a really balanced look.
It's so fluid and very readable as well.
You would pay a lot of money to use these fonts in your design
projects, and I was super surprised to see it in Adobe Fonts.
There's eight fonts within the typeface, meaning that you can
create whole type system centered around them for your
branding if you need to.
Honestly, right now there are so many people using serif
typefaces and this is the one to go for.
It's super clean.
Not only that, they've got some amazing ligatures in there too.
So if you want to change up the typeface a little bit in
InDesign or in Illustrator when using it, then you can.
It gives it a more personal feeling.
One of my recent favorites is La Luxes or La Luxes.
I don't know how to say it, so sorry if I get it wrong.
I'm probably butchering it.
This is a font duo, meaning font pairing, which is
something that a lot of designers struggle with.
And to have a font that pairs so well is so nice.
It's just so much more convenient.
La Luxes is a luxurious typeface.
You've seen me use it before, maybe in some tiktoks.
It's got this really nice serif display font and then there's
also really lovely script, so it makes it feel very boutique
and luxurious all the way around.
Also, the ligatures are crazy.
You could be typing something like, let's say a Post Malone
in full caps and it looks like it's lettered because it's so
carefully crafted and it looks amazing.
This is great for what I would think like a restaurant brand,
if you're going to use it as a logo, or even if you just
wanted to get that sense of luxury within your branding or
within a menu, within an Instagram post with a product.
There's so many uses for this one.
I love it.
This is the perfect font for someone who's trying to create
that quick and easy logo for something.
Not that I would suggest using the font on its own.
I think you should change a few things about it just to make it
more of your own.
But it just oozes luxury around it because the way that the
letters flow into each other and also the different glyphs
that you have.
So it actually changes the way it looks like when you put two Ls
together or an L and an O, like a capital L and a capital O.
It will do this crazy thing.
I love that.
Fonts like that is kind of like magic to me.
If you're one of those people that are looking for a really
clean san serif typeface to use your client work for modern
logos or just modern branding, like maybe for a tech company,
I don't know, this is the one for you.
So Noir Sans is a serif font family of 12 fonts with a
contemporary aesthetics, heavily influenced by the 20th
century geometric typefaces.
That's what you see a lot of these tech companies using,
especially the startups.
There's a reason it's very legible, very readable, very simple.
It looks professional, but it's also slightly friendly as well.
A lot of these typefaces look friendly, especially with the
geometric because of the postmodern typographer trying
to create that sense of legibility or the readability,
should I say, throughout their work.
Now, the best thing about this is that Noir are actually on
Envato Elements, who are sponsoring this video.
And if you don't know what Envato Elements are, then
I will remind you. Envato Elements have over 50 million
assets at your disposal for your design projects.
We use Envato Elements all the time for mockups.
For instance, if we're working with a client and we need to
mock up a logo for a presentation.
So maybe we take a logo for an apparel brand and put it onto a
T shirt to show the client how the logo or the design would
look on the product they're selling without actually having
to sell that product.
You guys already know. Within these 50 million assets you
have fonts as well.
And there is a plethora of fonts.
Now don't worry, you don't have to buy them separately and
you don't have to worry about the licensing either.
They have this simple license which you can look more into
if you click the link down below.
But the best part about it is that you get 50 million plus
assets to use for less than $20 a month if you go for the
annual subscription, which is mind boggling.
But even better than that, you get 7 day free trial
clicking the link down below.
So go and try it out.
Another great typeface that I love is Carters.
Carters is a display typeface inspired by retro signage.
Now, I love hand lettering.
If you know me and you're an OG of the channel, you know that
I love sign painting, I love all that sort of stuff.
That's how I learned typography. Carters is an amazing typeface
on Envato Elements because it takes that old school sign
painting feel, the things that you would see on like a British
train or like a wartime poster and it brings it to the modern age.
Obviously, there's like a specific time and place.
Well, maybe not time but there's a specific place to use fonts
like these because you don't want everything to be super
retro and vintage all the time.
But maybe you have a poster design that you might want to
use a bit more of a retro feel to.
Or maybe you have a client that likes more of a retro feeling
towards their branding.
This is the typeface for you.
Now the last one, which is probably my favorite, is Roc Grotesk.
This typeface has so many fonts within it, but it's also variable.
I love that it's super wide, it's modern, readable and
it just fits so nicely into poster designs.
Obviously, there's a condensed version as well, which works super nicely.
The thick version, I'm going to call it the thick version.
The wide version that I just love.
Again, it solves sort of a problem for me when I'm
creating content or if I'm designing a poster or whatever,
that if I want something that looks modern but also has, like
this retro vintage feeling, then I can use Roc Grotesk.
And because Roc Grotesk is variable as well, it means that
you've got nearly infinite possibilities of different ways
to show this.
It's friendly, it's bubbly, it's got great contrast.
It's amazing for type and titles, for body text.
I'm not doing it justice explaining it to you like this,
but hopefully you can see I'm excited about this one.
This one is over at Adobe Fonts as well.
So you've got the actual font family if you want to get all
the separate ones.
But if you want to use variable fonts, which I might make a
video on later then you can download that one also.
If you're wondering what kind of variable stats that
I put in. I put in 122 in the width and I bump that weight up
all the way to 900 on full caps.
It's powerful, big, and it makes an impact.
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