Our beloved fellow Canadian Ryan Gosling hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live recently and his sketch about a man being outraged over Papyrus as the main font used in Avatar is absolutely hilarious. Click to watch the skit.

Between Comic Sans, Lucida Handwriting, Brush Script and Papyrus, the later one takes the crown for being the most questionably overused font out there. In fact, this font is so globally hated by designers that there is a hilarious anti-Papyrus blog running around online. Check it out here.

Oh Ryan, we feel your pain.

We’re proud to announce the launch of our latest typography project, Tealeaf – a display typeface designed and executed by yours truly. Tealeaf was inspired by the beauty of organic flowing lines found in nature. The typeface comes in two styles: Outline, and Fill. These styles can be used together or alone to create elegant prints, quotes, headers and more! This set contains only the uppercase vector, outlined alphabet contained in a ready-to-use .EPS file. Also included in the download zip are the license agreement and examples of this font in use to kick-start your inspiration. We hope you have as much fun using this typeface as we had making it! Simply like us on Facebook or tweet about Tealeaf on Twitter, and your download will start automatically. Use #tealeaf to show us your creations. We’d love to see what you can do!

Check it out in our portfolio, here.

Ever wish you had an app similar to Shazam but for fonts? Fellow colleagues and friends, our designer dreams have come true! For her graduating project, designer Fiona O’Leary from the Royal College of Art developed Spector, a small and practical tool that can possibly identify any font and color seen in the real world.

The tool is described as easy to use. By pressing the button on top after you’ve placed the tool over a printed surface with your inquired typeface, a photograph is taken and an algorithm runs to identify the typeface, size, kerning/leading, along with the CMYK or RGB values.