FontDiscovery 🖼️ 140: A Graceful Slab Serif Font For Your Branding Projects
Hey Everyone 👋
Hope you had a fantastic week so far! This week I have been brainstorming new visual ideas for our newsletters, around guides and infographics. Here is a sneak peek.
This week, enjoy one of our popular post from the archive on a unique slab serif, Josefine Slab.
In This Issue…
How to Use Josefin Slab for Logo, Branding & More
Font of the Week: Josefin Slab
Design Idea of the Week: Serifs Styles You Must Know To Improve Your Design
Color Inspiration of the Week: Baroque Palette
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Font of the Week
About Josefin Slab
Josefin Slab is a delicate, elegant slab serif perfect for speaking in an elegant tone. A slab serif is a serif font with large, block-like serifs.
Compared to Zilla Slab, a slab serif we have featured in the past, Josefin Slab is more dainty and graceful. Visually, its letter shapes are geometric rather than calligraphic. They are representations of beauty ideals like the perfect circle, giving Josefin Slab an extra vibe of classicalness. In addition, large open counters in lowercase letters signify an easiness and grace.
Font Details
Generous open counters in letters, like “f” and “g”
Nine Weights split with regular and italic versions
Geometric letterforms
Sans serif version available
How to use Josefin Slab for Logo?
Josefin Slab is perfect for logos looking to appear elegant. Avoid using lighter weights. Use Bold Weights starting from SemiBold so that the shape of letterforms doesn’t break under small scales.
How to use Josefin Slab for Marketing and Branding?
Josefin Slab is great for header-size text and call-out copies in marketing. It has multiple weights, allowing you to make eye-catching designs. If you want to use Josefin Slab for body text, try its sans serif counterpart in the same font family, Josefin Sans. Josefin Slab and Sans pair perfectly for an elegant look and feel.
Design Idea of the Week
Interactive Typography Jargon Buster: Serifs Styles You Must Know
The newest typography jargon buster is out! This time, I created an x-ray-like effect to illustrate these terms. Mouseover the graphic will allow users to uncover and examine parts of the letter. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
Color Inspiration of the Week
Baroque Palette
This week, enjoy this fine art palette from the painting The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer.
Mellow #E2CC81 | Beige #E0D9C6 | Carolina #6092BC | Sage #93AB8D
Creative Prompt
Create something with Josefin Slab!
Thank you
…for reading and hanging out here this week! Josefin Slab is available here.
