Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich loves to have fun with type, as he’s demonstrated in many book cover designs, including his own books, and in Words at Play, a hyrbid print/online publication.
Now he’s started a blog, Type Calendar, which he says he “created as a way to play with type. For the next year, a new entry will appear every day (so help me God!), where the day’s digits reflect significant moments of that day in history.”
To see the full-sized numerals and information about the typefaces, go to Type Calendar. In the meantime, here’s a peek at the first four days of 2011:
Humbling, aren’t they?
Since September 2009, Jessica Hische has illustrated a drop cap every work day. As there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, she’s now on her twelfth iteration of each letter and says that alphabet 12 may be the last. Nooo!
She drew this letter “B” just a few days ago:
You can browse all of the drop caps by alphabet iteration or letter on the Daily Drop Cap site. And you can do more than look: Jessica gives you her blessing to use any of the letters for non-commercial use as drop caps on your personal blog.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on January 5, 2011
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