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Powerlifting Slogans & Sayings
You don’t just lift, you powerlift. So we think you’ve earned some awesome custom gear for your next sweat sesh! Tees for leg day? Hats for benching? We’ve got it all. Find some inspiration for your custom gear with our list of powerlifting slogans & sayings below. If one of our slogans is swole cool, design custom t-shirts for your [...]
Font of the Week — Americana
Americana was designed by Richard Isbell in 1965 to honor our country’s upcoming bicentennial. With extremely high x-heights, triangular serifs, and airy spacing, Americana is perfect for advertising. Isbell’s creation of such a versatile typeface means Americana works great for not only large print needs, but small as well. [...]
Font of the Week — Rockwell
Rockwell is a Monotype font created by Frank Hinman Pierpont in 1934. Rockwell was in part inspired by a font created twenty years earlier, Litho Antique. Rockwell’s most recognizable letter is the “Qq” with it’s lengthy tail making it quite recognizable. Why might you recognize Rockwell? It’s used in the [...]
Ink of the Week Winners
“Celebrity USA Contestants” and “Team Keith” are the winners of this week’s Ink of the Week contest! The Celebrity USA West Coast Mini Nationals pageant was held in Reno, Nevada last month. Contestants came from California, Nevada, and Utah to compete and ranged in age from four-years-old to 51. They all looked to [...]
Font of the Week — Quicksand
Quicksand, a contemporary geometric type font, was created in 2008 by Andrew Paglinawan. Quicksand was designed with display in mind and for that reason, no italicized version was created. Our Font of the Week images are created by Emily Clark, an Expert Production Artist at CustomInk and a self-declared font addict. Font of the Week [...]
Ink of the Week Winners
“Our Family Vacation 2017” and “Team Alyssa’s Avengers crushing cancer!” are the winners of this week’s Ink of the Week contest! One family member surprised the rest with official “Road Trip” t-shirts to wear on their summer drive from Metairie, Louisiana to Chattanooga, Tennessee. The shirts [...]
Typographer of the Month — Vincent Connare
At CustomInk we love custom designs, and a lot of times that includes fonts! What you might not know is that fonts, or typefaces, are created by typographers and are an art form in their own right. We’ve chosen some of our favorite fonts to feature here on our blog. To help you understand them a little bit better, we’re doing Q&As [...]
Ink of the Week Winners
“Brooke Bakes a Difference for No Kids Hungry!” and “Dirt Doll Mountain Bike Shredders” are the winners of this week’s Ink of the Week contest! When 12-year-old Brooke saw an ad for No Kids Hungry on the Food Network, she became inspired to run a bake sale to raise money for the cause. She was diagnosed with [...]