font_foundry: Device
Acton
Acton is a deceptively simple, grid-based design. Though derived from a 2 by 3 arrangement of blocks, it uses white spaces to allow for more complex shapes – for example as the R –...
Straker
Straker is named after the beige Nehru-collared commander in Gerry Anderson’s masterpiece, UFO.
Telstar
A space-age headline font, Telstar explores a computer-readable sci-fi aesthetic based on an obround lozenge pierced with off-centre holes; the left-right weight switch derives from early optical recognition typefaces.
Xenotype
Xenotype is an examination of heavy horizontal weighting and develops ideas underlying 60s and 70s headline faces.
Yolanda
Yolanda, a family of three weights each more florid than the last.
Sparrowhawk
Sparrowhawk, a capitals only titling, evokes a suburban English gentility.