FF Dolores
American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones created this display FontFont in 1991. The family has 5 weights, ranging from Light to Black and is ideally suited for advertising and packaging, film and tv, music and...
font_designer: Tobias Frere-Jones
Stereo
Stereo was designed by Karlgeorg Hoefer and built with an unusual understanding of the play of casual form in building a fictional third dimension. A powerful exercise by a master of figure-ground relations, Stereo...
Reactor FB
First drawn in 1993 by Tobias Frere-Jones for Neville Brody’s Fuse magazine, FB Reactor combines abraded forms with Tesla’s theory of destruction through accumulating rhythmic points of noise. The ‘Derelict’ style offers choices of...
Reiner Script
Loose and angular, this typeface was originally designed by Imre Reiner for the Amsterdam Typefoundry in 1951. Attracted by its free-form structure and unique texture, Tobias Frere-Jones revived the original design from handset proofs...
Pilsner
Sitting in a Paris cafe with a bottle of beer, Tobias Frere-Jones gave his attention to the label. It was set in a roman design wearing blackletter-like clothes, probably to suggest an origin in...
Niagara
While not a revival in the strictest sense of the word, Niagara recalls the crisp, elegant geometry found in some of the best American styles from the nineteen-thirties and -forties. The four condensed weights...
Nobel
Nobel offers personal variations on strict Bauhaus geometry. In 1929, three years after the Futura release, Sjoerd Henrik de Roos at Amsterdam explored alternative character sets to enliven basic Futura forms. The Nobel series...
Interstate
Familiarity lies at the heart of legibility. Interstate is based on the signage alphabets of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, letterforms absorbed at a glance everywhere we drive. Interstate provides a real edge in...
Hightower
In 1994, Tobias Frere-Jones completed Hightower for the Journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. For as long as he had drawn letters, he had wrestled with the problems posed by any modern...
Griffith Gothic
Of all his work, C.H. Griffith claimed one type, Bell Gothic, as his own design. Griffith Gothic is a revival of the 1937 Mergenthaler original, redrawn as the house sans for Fast Company. Tobias...