The Buchhstabenmuseum (Museum of Letters, Characters and Typefaces) is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of letters, regardless of culture, language and font systems.

The museum stands to preserve the ever disappearing, quality, crafted letters and signs from our landscape; as a result it is repurposing old media, giving it a new home, recycling it. Furthermore anyone (museum or not) that is trying to raise public awareness of good type and brings interest to typography as a medium I’m backing!

The museum is based in Berlin and currently visits are by appointment only (you need to contact them to arrange a viewing)… If you can’t afford to go (and speak a bit of German) then check out their website Buchstabenmuseum.de

Already one of my favourite typefaces, my love for Newzald runs deep. It comes in a selection of weights and works as well at 10pt as it does at 72pt. Also there is a great article on I love typography called Moleskin to Market about the construction of the face.

There aren’t many who don’t have an opinion about Helvetica, it is the Marmite of typefaces. I’m a lover (I’ve painted a canvas & even built a Helvetica/Twitter Mashup dedicated to it) – for me, it’s one of those fonts that works anywhere and everywhere, I restrain myself from using it too much, but it is a true icon of beautiful design.

Caslon & I have a long standing relationship. It’s a beautiful transitional typeface. I used it most recently on an iPhone wallpaper for Type Nuts (which by the way is a great resource for type inspired wallpapers for your desktop/iPhone)

I think the first time I saw Soho Gothic was when i stumbled on the Promotional video on Vimeo, What a way to advertise a font! It’s a modern font with sticking power and it has lots of very tasty weights – including slabs (Ultra and Thin are awesome!)

Other faces that I was really strongly considering but got pipped at the post for one reason or another:

• Clarendon makes for awesome headlines!
• Din great sans-serif face, works well as signage, i’ve used it for a few ID’s in the past.
• Futura one of my all time fave fonts (used it recently when I rebranded GeorgeWiscombe.com
• Garamond works really well at (fairly) small size so tend to use it when there is a lot of body copy. On a side note, this is one of my Dads favourite typefaces (thought I would share)
• Gotham I’m pretty new to the H&J foundry (only just got a few of there faces at work) but I’m already in love with this face. Brilliant in all-caps.
• Mercury as mentioned earlier only really just got my mits on this face, it’s a good solid face.
• Sabon is another face that works well in body copy
• Trajan massively overused but still a great face, with an awesome history
• VAG Rounded in my (humble) opinion the best rounded typeface out there.

If you could only choose 4 faces, which would they be?

The guys over at Konstfack college of Arts, Crafts & Design in Stockholm created life-size typographic costumes and then decided to have a game of football in the suits. Football + Typography = Awesome.

I love pop-up style books, it’s like a handcrafted technology and it’s combined with typography! I love the intricacies, the details and prototyping this would have been loads of fun (must have been done by a really talented team).

On a side note, how cool is the music!? Put a massive grin on my face.
Searching for a type-inspired christmas gift? Get Abc3D from Amazon

This is the new Icon Collection type specimen from Font Smith. Five sheets of A6 card, featuring four of their latest faces. Alvar (Light) probably being my weapon of choice. What a great way to start the week!