Fonty Friday: Edifice

Edifice is a sans-serif typeface designed by Dimitri Castrique.

Fonty Friday: Edifice

Edifice is a fun-loving typeface, and I think it suits to be headers and subheaders if it is used properly. Of course, I would not recommend anyone to use it for a general text typeface. Edifice does not look good when it comes in huge quantities and in small font sizes, which appears grotesquely out of shape with ClearType or any other subpixel rendering algorithms. The irregular shape does inject dynamism into the headers if it’s used, so go try it out!

p/s: This post marks the end of a three-week hiatus, by far the longest, from this blog. A little update about my personal life – the semester has been very unkind and horribly busy this year. Projects, presentations and lab reports were filling my weekends more quickly than rancid smoke of a burning building. And during the past 25 days, this site has been feeding off search engine visits at a rate of 350+ visits a day. Hmmm, I don’t know whether should I be happy or sad.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Terry Mun (Teddy)

I'm relatively new to the design world - only to start learning HTML in secondary school and then moving on to (X)HTML and CSS in college. Since then I have been hand-coding my designs using notepad, alongside with the amazing help from Firebug. I embrace photography as a personal persuit during my free time, and I prefer spending the rest of it doing meaningless quizzes on Facebook and destroying the world (in Rampage World Tour, that is).

7 responses to “Fonty Friday: Edifice” » Leave a response

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Portia @justPortia
March 28, 2010 at 7:58 pm \ Permalink \ Reply

Wow I really like that font. Thank you for sharing!
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  Terry @teddyrised
  March 29, 2010 at 1:50 am \ Permalink \ Reply
  
  Hi Portia! Thanks for dropping by. Edifice is indeed a very beautiful font – f, p, s and y are one of the few characters that I think are beautifully designed.
  
  Anyway, I dropped by your site today and I really adore your minimalistic design. It’s really a breath of fresh air :) and welcome back to the blogosphere!
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Portia @justPortia
March 29, 2010 at 2:09 am \ Permalink \ Reply

Thank you! Yeah, music therapy is goood.
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Lucy @lucychan
March 30, 2010 at 8:58 am \ Permalink \ Reply

I really, really love that font! The ‘s’ in Pleonasm is just awesome! Don’t know why I love it so much, but I do! Thanks for sharing this little gem, Teddy! :)
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  Terry @teddyrised
  April 2, 2010 at 8:18 am \ Permalink \ Reply
  
  Thanks Lucy! I’m glad that you find it adorable too. The character ‘s’ has got this wiggly tail which I find irresistibly cute :)
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Maria Celina @mariacelina
April 4, 2010 at 3:29 am \ Permalink \ Reply

I love the whimsical swing of the tail of the letter “y” in this font! Thanks for sharing this font, Teddy; I can trust your judgement when it comes to fonts. =)
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  Terry @teddyrised
  April 10, 2010 at 8:25 am \ Permalink \ Reply
  
  Thanks Maria! I love your choice of words, always. Whimsical :D
  
  Sadly, I’m starting to run out of free fonts to recommend. Perhaps I should make it a twice a month feature or something, heh.

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