In times of a Font Aid appeal, The Society of Typographic Aficionados organizes charitable designers to contribute to a themed font. Previous Font Aids have included typefaces comprised entirely of ampersands and another consisting of only fleurons. The latest Font Aid, called Made For Japan, is a face consisting of glyphs representing their designers interpretations of Japan.

Flush Left has submitted 2 glyphs, 1 of which i have included the sketches for below. The initial sketches were completed on the iPad, using an application called Penultimate – very natty tool for making visual notes, sketches etc. The glyphs were then created in Illustrator and are currently under consideration for inclusion. As soon as I hear back about them, I will post them here. In the meantime, you will need to be happy with the Penultimate iPad sketches of Glyph 1 below.

I would urge anyone with the talent to do so, to enter your glyph ideas into this worthy cause. I have had a sneak peak and there are some really good things coming along! Further details of submission can be found on the SOTA website. Be warned though, the deadline for submissions is Friday 25th March, so you will need to get your design skates on!

You can also follow SOTA on Twitter (@typesociety).

The Flush Left glyphs can now be seen here.

Download Gridface Facist here. The zip file contains 2 weights (Gridface Facist and Gridface Facist Stroker), plus a large format A3 specimen sheets with size / leading recommendations for each.

I don’t ask for payment, or even a credit on your work, but it would show outstanding designers respect, if you decide Gridface Facist is the right font for your job, if you could contact me and show me examples of how you have used it. You can contact me here – and I’m pretty hot on replying!

GridFace Facist Font by Flush Left is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Stay tuned for some exciting news this evening (GMT), with more resources, downloads, showing off, reviews etc.

Thanks for continuing to read!

The list is endless to be fair, there are commonly accepted names and terminologies, and there are those that have been invented and over time, have become commonplace. For the purpose of the reference part of the site, we shall leave the naming thing at the 2 posts.

But what fun would it be if I was not to make you wander half way around the web to find it?

Click here to see the full typeface on my design portfolio site