Damian’s notes

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

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

(Via @mass_driver_tm on Twitter)

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XgzNKso4E

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  Ohno Blazeface I picture five-year-old James Edmondson, sitting on the floor of his dad’s graphic design studio back in the early 1990s, poring over vintage Letraset catalogs and copies of U&lc from the 1970s, absorbing it all like a sponge.

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  Discórdia by Naipe - Future Fonts Discórdia is a type-family of contrasting contrasts. Each of the four members of the family has a different contrast type. Regular has broad-nib contrast, Bold has horizontal contrast, the Italic is monoline, which means it has no apparent contrast, and Bold Italic is... Well, it’s probably best if see for yourself. These different design structures were fine-tuned to work well together in the same line, creating emphasis and hierarchy through a mini-super-family that groups a wedge-serif Regular, a slab-serif Bold and a sans-serify Italic. B A C K G R O U N D Designed by Álvaro Franca (www.alvarofran.ca), Discórdia started out at the Advanced Typography MA program at EINA (https://www.eina.cat/en/postgraus/master-en-tipografia-avancada), in Barcelona 🇪🇸 Developed originally for use in magazines, the goal was to create a concise text family that blurred the lines of type classification, mixing things that normally don’t go together but which could be persuaded to play nice this one time. 🎉 We are happy to report that Discórdia was a selected project in the 8th Tipos Latinos (https://www.tiposlatinos.com/) Biennal of Latin-American Type Design! 🎉

• Klooster: December’s Font of the Month Klooster: December’s Font of the Month

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  Elfreth by JTD - Future Fonts What if blackletter wasn’t just for graduations and gravestones? Elfreth is a “casual blackletter” that works when traditional blackletter doesn’t.