The Belucian series offers a distinguished text design supported by dynamic headline structure. In need of a distinctive display style, Smart magazine asked Font Bureau in 1990 to revise the work of Lucian Bernhard...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 5, 2015
Berlin Sans is based on a brilliant alphabet from the late twenties, originally released by Bauer with the name Negro, the very first sans that Lucian Bernhard ever designed. Assisted by Matthew Butterick, David...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 2015
The five-part Barcode series offers an ultra condensed design where successive styles are all the same weight, an experiment for the type designer and user in character interaction as the form of the typeface...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 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…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Tobias Frere-Jones began Armada in 1987. An experiment in algorithmic design, Armada follows the verticals and flat arches so often to be found in the architectural geometry of cast iron and brickwork in nineteenth-century...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 19, 2015
Lettering artist and graphic designer Leslie Cabarga has been charmed all his life with the eccentricities in amateur lettering, especially those found in logos and sign painting. The single font of BadTyp combines all...
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…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Aardvark: Africaans, “earthpork” or “groundpig,” anteater. In 1991, John Benson designed Aardvark “as an eye-catching letter to evoke the look of African tribal designwork, Franklin Gothic Condensed, perhaps, seen through the eyes of a...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 16, 2015
ATF Agency Gothic was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1932 as a lone titling. In 1990, David Berlow saw potential in the squared forms of the narrow, monotone capitals. He designed a lowercase...
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We have all seen proofs where faulty platemaking or light inking has lost all hairlines in a delicate roman. Raphael Boguslav observed the effect and understood it as a sophisticated form of stencil design....