Damian’s notes

The Zed typeface superfamily (Peter Biľak et al.) is a variable font with four axes (width, weight, slant, and roundedness). Just van Rossum came up with an elegant interactive visualization of the mind-boggling design space.

Typotheque: A typeface in four dimensions Description: Zed is a font superfamily built on four variable design axes and spans more than 500 individual styles. This post attempts to make that vast design space easier to grasp.

Noted by Damian Cugley 4 days, 2 hours ago.

Bricolage Grotesque is a free and open source variable font by Mathieu Triay with (it says here) French attitude and British mannerisms. It’s great for headlines and display text. And it has a fabulous brochure website.

Bricolage Grotesque — Free & Open Source Variable Font An expressive variable font that blends iconic French and British designs across three axes: weight, width, and optical size. It visually expresses what it feels like when you cannot be what you were and yet you can never truly be anybody else.

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 week, 6 days ago.

MF Normavaganza Extra started life as a detour in a Type and Media final project and has emerged as its own very extra slab-serif font. Would be useful in very dramatic headlines and strange textured backgrounds. Available as a work in progress from Future Fonts.

(Via MF Normavaganza Extra by M59 - Future Fonts)

MF Normavaganza Extra by M59

Noted by Damian Cugley 7 months, 2 weeks ago.

A new arrival at Future Fonts: Synch, an exhuberently psychedelic typeface called Sync by James Plattner

Synch by James Plattner - Future Fonts A contemporary, reverse-contrast, psychedelic typeface blowing in the wind.

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 year, 9 months ago.

Superscript is an energetic, compressed, high-contrast script type family designed by Neil Summerour for Positype.

(Via https://www.instagram.com/p/CzZEExIxJCp/)

Superscript ← Positype Superscript started as a personal challenge... simple as that. I had been doodling in a sketchbook with a sumi brush, focusing on very compressed, high-contrast, connected script letterforms. This type of doodle is usually a warm-up exercise.

Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 1 month ago.

AG57 is a digitization of H. Bertholds’s 1898 typeface Akzidenz-Grotesk made freely available as a cultural artefact. More in the linked article (in German, which alas! I cannot read).

(Via Ich-AG, typografisch – H. Bertholds 'Akzidenz-Grotesk' für Ihren Computer - SBB aktuell via @espiekermann on Twitter)

GitHub - neueneue/AG57: AG57 Digitization AG57 Digitization. Contribute to neueneue/AG57 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 10 months ago.

MD Polychrome is a retro-futuristic type family inspired by the 1960s typefaces inspired by Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) symbols.

(Via @mass_driver_tm on Twitter)

MD Polychrome Typeface MD Polychrome is a display typeface based on the unique ‘retro high-tech’ aesthetic of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR), and the pre-digital fonts which it inspired.

Noted by Damian Cugley 3 years, 3 months ago.

Design information about Epicene Display and Epicene Text, Baroque typeface families by Kris Sowersby—including notes on camp and supposedly masculine versus feminine typeface design

Klim Type Foundry · Epicene design information While attentive to history, Epicene is not a revival typeface. It is an experiment in modernising Baroque letterforms without muzzling their ornamental idiosyncrasy nor falling into the trap of gender codifications.

Noted by Damian Cugley 4 years, 1 month ago.

Given the brief of an alien alphabet for use in a children’s hospital, British type designer Jeremy Tankard put the work in to make something splendid replete with a fictional history and two styles (corporate Sans and informal Hand).

Queezoid Although invented writing systems are not an alien concept, ones for cultures that don’t actually exist are rather rare. Thankfully, that didn’t stop the cosmically inventive Jeremy Tankard from designing not one but three styles of Queezoid for the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The Queezies are a decidedly cuddly alien race that infiltrates the hospital, leaving its mark — literally.

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 1 month ago.