Shockwave
I’m always experimenting with new ideas for display fonts. I took the inside counter of a capital ‘O’, divided it into quarters, and applied an outline stroke to all the elements. By removing two...
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Linotype Mega
Linotype Mega is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. The fun schrift of German designer Till F. Teenck...
Liga Sans
The German designer Alexander Dosiehn developed the Liga Sans type family as part of his graduate thesis at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf in 2001. Liga Sans is a sans serif typeface that acts as a...
Linotype Syntax Serif
Linotype Syntax™ Serif is the serif typeface that complements Linotype Syntax™, both created by Swiss type designer Hans Eduard Meier in 2000. With this new design, Meier has at last given shape and structure...
Linotype Syntax Letter
Linotype Syntax™ Letter is reminiscent of the style of the Roman Rustic capitals and is an earthy, almost snappy companion to the other Linotype Syntax™ typefaces. Instead of subtly expressing the rhythmic dynamism of...
Legal
The Legal typeface family grew out a sans serif project that Hellmut G. Bomm began in the 1970s (his HGB Grotesk). This refined, industrial type family is well suited for short amounts of text,...
New Renaissance
New Renaissance is a modernized old style design based on generous proportions and clean, crisp lines. A ‘New Renaissance’ for the 21st century, New Renaissance makes for easy reading and looks good in both...
Contax
In the advertising industry, I was often asked to supply the art directors with ideas for a san serif type design that was not the standard Helvetica or Univers. They wanted a fresh new...
Beatnik
I was working at Bozell Worldwide, an advertising agency, on their yearly promotional pitch. An art director was looking for a condensed informal headline treatment to be used on one of the new ad...