Posts Tagged "Typography"

paradiseparkonline.com is a flash site with a tad of CSS structure thrown in. The site was created for a downtown Nashville venue called Paradise Park. The club is one that tries to be as “red neck” as they can, and they wanted a site taht reflected that. All the flash work, illustration, and coding were done by me.

Yes I know as if anyone needed another eason to hear this song, but I think this monochromatic (mostly) ditty is fantastically done.

I am going to neard out on this post a bit. Many of my graphic designer friends even think I am neardy when it comes to fonts. Until recently I had many font posters hanging in my office. I also have more fonts than music on my computer, and I have a ton of music by the way.

So this is the deal, the Centro Pro series of fonts won the “Original Typeface of the Year” at the European Design Awards. The fonts was designed by Pannos Vassiliou.

This is all well and good, but I want to talk about something else. I want to talk about how awesome these 3 font series are! They are Centro Sans Pro, Centro Serif Pro, and Centro Slab Pro.

These fonts are what I hope to see everywhere in the coming years. Do not get me wrong I am a sucker for Helvetica, and will pull it out there when I have no idea how to start a Design. But these fonts are beutiful they are simple, legible, but you would never call them boring. They push to being modern, but you could easily see them as being modern invented in the moon shot era. I love these fonts, and they are a welcome addition in my top 20. Now I just have to scrounge pennies and justify spending the money on them. The font was developed and funded by Parachute and can be found here.