Art for a Type Nerd

It's been a while since I've checked in over at Daily Drop Cap. Illustrator Jessica Hische has been publishing this site since 2009, with beautiful pieces of typography. Here are some recent favorites:

Love these? You can buy letterpress prints of some of them on her site. Also check out her fonts.

Jessica, keep up the great work!

Daily Drop Cap Recap

A while back I posted about Jessica Hische, the designer & blogger behind Daily Drop Cap. It's a beautiful blog featuring illustrated initial caps that she has created & are available for anyone to use on their own blogs. She has recently had many special guests designing for the blog & the work is outstanding!!!

See for yourself here. These are some of my faves:





And this one, last but not least, especially with it's many fabulous stages...




Cool right?!! So many styles & colors. I kinda want to frame some as art...

Have a great week, everyone!

The Daily Drop Cap

oly Typography, Batman!! Via HipHostess, I found this amazing new typography site today called Daily Drop Cap by Jessica Hische. This typographer/illustrator started this blog as an ongoing project. Each day she posts a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap for free use on the net (& I quote) "for the beautification of blog posts everywhere." You just copy & paste the code she provides into the HTML (like I did!) and VIOLA! Her characters are so much fun. Other than the "H" I used today she has many other letters to use in your beautifying:

(Her latest post, an N)

(This dainty Y)

(And this awesome B...can't resist this letter these days. Hee, hee)

Love her use of color. Some letters are bold, some are soft. Plenty of inspiration whether you are a fan of type or not. Check out her other amazing work here. She's got some great fonts on my favorite type site, MyFonts.com

Bravo, Jessica! Your work is beautiful. Keep it up!