PostScript fonts are constructed by connecting dots, dots that have special attributes that control the shape of the connecting lines. In designing Minimalist, I wanted to see how few dots could be used to...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
Onyon is a bizarre typeface with vertical stems that thicken in the middle and narrow at the ends. It was created as an experiment to see what a typeface would look like if the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
What would a typeface look like that used a gothic arch, a feature of medieval architecture, as its motif? I decided to find out and the result was not beautiful but frightful. GothicHorror uses...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
Baumfuss and BaumfussTwo are unpolished, crude typefaces with small flared serifs and very few straight lines. They are a bit heavy to be easily readable at smaller point sizes. Baumfuss has a high x-height,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 17, 2024
CompassOne was a design I began in 1990 or so, but did not bother to finish until five years later. Its name comes from the fact that all the letters could have been drawn...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 19, 2024
TagBoyHardcore is based on my own tagging style when I did graffiti in the mid-eighties. The font is roughly scanned and spaced narrowly in order to keep the original bad boy style. Pump up...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
Clotilde Olyff challenges and surprises us. Legibility fonts are above all familiar designs, seldom shocking us visually. Alpha Bloc and Geometrique explore alphabetic form, stretching recognition, teasing, surprising, thrilling us with unfamiliar…