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The 24 Top Fonts Released in January.

This January was a very active month for the typography industry, many great and affordable fonts were released. Brandon Printed ( a variation of Brandon text) was the king of this month, but we had a lot of interesting fonts like variations of popular fonts like Museo Sans or Metronic Slab Narrow, many different styles from hand made fonts like Altus and Periplus to geometric sans serif fonts like Arquitecta from Latinotype. But stop reading this and check the details of all this fonts in the following links:

Brandon Printed

Arquitecta

The Carpenter

Gist

Predige

Logotype Frenzy

Gubia

Ganache

Castor

Sinffonia

Industry Inc

Port Vintage

Pilcrow

Acrom

Museo Sans

Periplus

Lakester

Booster Next FY

Sisco

Vanille FY

Altus

Metronic Slab Narrow

National Champion

Saya FY (The font used in the word January of this post)

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Profiting from Detroit’s despair

Detroit’s economic decline has led to a strange sort of tourism. Photographers focused on the city’s worn-down buildings and broken infrastructure have prompted guides to give tours of the urban decay.

He’d heard stories of ruin and blight, but that didn’t prepare Oliver Kearney for what he saw:

Prostitutes roaming the streets at 8 a.m., rubble-strewn parking lots overrun with weeds, buildings taken over by bright pink graffiti, the message scrawled on blackboards in deserted schools: “I will not write in vacant buildings.”

He took 2,000 photographs his first day.

But these tours frequently break trespassing laws, and residents are condemning the photographic forays:

"The decay is not cool, not arty-farty," Jean Vortkamp, a community activist and onetime mayoral candidate, said in an email.

"I see the lady with bags and three layers of clothes on, and then I see a group of white young people climb out of their dad’s cars with cameras that are worth so much."

Read reporter Alana Semuels’ whole story right here.

Photos: Alana Semuels / Los Angeles Times