typography

Got the Gist

While working on a logo design for a new show for NBA TV I came across a unique font family called Gist from Yellow Design Studio (YDS). For a modest $49 the family comes with a vast array of 20 fonts. Ryan Martinson from YDS has also posted a variety of free elements like dingbats, textures, and fonts for download. Something I really appreciated about Gist was that the designer provided the inlines as separate fonts so the inlines could be easily colored. Also the OpenType ligatures, swash capitals, and alternates were very well thought out.