Riccardo Sartori Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 I will use this thread to gather references to typefaces or other type-related projects of interest with shared features. When enough similar items will be amassed, I intend to construct a proper list. Additions and suggestions are, of course, encouraged. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Unfinished list № 1: typefaces for cities Not just inspired by cities, or showing just one aspect of them, however iconic. But expressly commissioned by municipalities or, in any case, designed to represent the “spirit” of the whole city. Chatype, for Chattanooga, TN: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chatype/chatype-a-typeface-for-chattanooga-tennessee/description http://chatype.com/ Network, for Birmingham, UK: http://www.monotype.com/resources/case-studies/a-typeface-that-travels-for-the-city-of-birmingham/ FF Amman, for Amman, Jordan: https://www.yanone.de/fonts/amman/ I also think to have seen a fairly recent one, for an Eastern European city, made available for free download by its designer, but I can’t remember where. 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 Unfinished list № 2: typefaces drawn with unusual means I would include only actual fonts (so, no bacteria this time, perhaps in a different list), containing graphemes (so no ferrofluid either). Tracking a car’s movements, iQ font: http://www.kuotzu-i.net/iqfont/ Punching a canvas with paint (not a new thing), Klitschko vs. Illiteracy: https://www.linotype.com/7184/klitschko-vs-illiteracy.html Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 For list number 1: Eindhoven in the Netherlands got a custom display font. This is supposedly the brand website but it can’t be reached currently: http://merkeindhoven.nl Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 Thanks! 10 hours ago, Ralf Herrmann said: This is supposedly the brand website but it can’t be reached currently: http://merkeindhoven.nl It seems it needs the “www”, for some reason: http://www.merkeindhoven.nl/ Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 On 10/8/2016 at 1:25 AM, Riccardo Sartori said: Unfinished list № 1: typefaces for cities The presentation of a talk from the latest TypeCon prompted me to do some more research, that led to a nice article in The Guardian. So, here are the new entrants: Seattle, for the City of Seattle, WA (the only sample I found is Seattle Text Bold, but the aforelinked description hints at an extensive type system). Twin, by Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland, for the “Twin Cities” Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN (there also is a book documenting the process). Stockholm Type, for Stockholm, Sweden. Wayfarer, for Sheffield, UK. Link to comment
Rogier Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Brisbane, by Troy Leinster http://typemedia2013.com/typeface/brisbane/ 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 I found a new one for list № 2: 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 30, 2018 Author Share Posted March 30, 2018 Of interest: Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 Also for list № 1: Quote Helsinki Grotesk, a custom typeface with what are described as “wavy” details, provides both character and continuity throughout all communications, and a clear functional foundation. http://bpando.org/2018/04/19/branding-helsinki/ Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 This also surely belongs to some list. 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 For list № 1: Big Shoulders. Quote Big Shoulders is a family of condensed American Gothic typefaces, created for the city and citizens of Chicago. The family’s tall, sans-serif forms are based in Chicago’s multiple histories in railway transport, journalism, advertising, and public political action. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 Unfinished list № 3: fairly recent revivals or aesthetically adjacents of geometric art deco seventies science fiction typefaces (working title) Marvin Vision; Righteous; ... 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 6, 2020 Author Share Posted March 6, 2020 Unfinished list № 4: the past that never was: the stressed constructivist alphabets One of the main stylistic features of the Bauhaus and other European avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, whether it is graphic design, furniture, architecture, or even weaving, was the contrast between thick lines and thinner lines. Yet, when it comes to typographic exploration, they produced mostly a bunch of monolinear sans serifs. Here are some modern explorations that could have been at home on a Bauhaus poster or a constructivist manifesto (at least in an alternate timeline). Modern Modern; Geostar Fill (and Geostar); Calzoleria; … 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Adding to list № 4: Mon Hugo. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 Unfinished list № 5: fonts that use OpenType ligature (or other) features for something other than ligatures There are at least two sub-genres here: something purposely useful, like Chartwell or Datalegreya; something gimmicky, often with some kind of message, like Common Sans or Scunthorpe Sans (and others that I can’t remember now). In any case, especially for the latter genre, because they need to be based on lists of words to substitute, they “work” only for the language(s) chosen by their designers. The same problem exist for fonts that use ligature features in a relatively more standard way, like Hangulatin. 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 Adding to list № 3: Nichrome Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 For list № 5: Disclosure Dingbats Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 Not sure if Q Shapes would qualify for list № 5 🤔 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share Posted June 29, 2020 Perhaps MuseoModerno for list № 3. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 Another for the “man-made geography” still unnumbered list: Coastline type. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 For list № 5, sub-genre 1: Sparks. 1 Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 For list № 5, sub-genre 2: The Polite Type. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 On 8/10/2016 at 1:25 AM, Riccardo Sartori said: I also think to have seen a fairly recent one, for an Eastern European city, made available for free download by its designer, but I can’t remember where. Possibly Permian, made by Ilya Ruderman for Perm. Link to comment
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