I know. I know. It's gone very quiet around here. Sorry about that: I'll try not to let it happen again.
Truth is, I'd had an extremely busy spell and for a couple of weeks I simply wasn't around to do any blogging. But I was back at my desk last week, so I should have been posting every day. But I didn't: I'd been struck by bloggers' block.
Maybe it's because I've reached the letter X in this little series on 52 fonts you could use instead of Helvetica. Ever since I started, I knew that X was going to be the difficult one. I should have posted it at least a month ago if I was going to be anywhere near keeping to my declared schedule (of two fonts every two weeks for a year). But I've been skirting round a choice for several weeks: it's not that I can't find fonts that begin with X; it's just that I don't find any of them in any way inspiring.
I wondered 'should I go for a Chinese font?' - something like C Xing. That would say something about the world just now. And, yes, I have typeset Chinese text, but I don't feel qualified to make an aesthetic judgement on what's a good Chinese font and what isn't.
Or should I go for a symbols font: something from the Xmas font family? But I'm never, ever going to use one of those, am I now?
So instead I seem to have landed in Canada: with two fonts by two young(ish) Canadian type designers. I'd like to say that I love them (the fonts that is). I don't, though. But at least they'll get me out of a hole.
This is Xenara, designed by Ray Larabie.
And this is Xheighter, which sounds as though it's something that you might get a spam email about. Designed by Lloyd Springer at Typeart.
So, enough said. I've breached the block. See you again tomorrow (I hope).
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