#T6
Typeface: Amalta
Typeface Designer: Vera Evstafieva, Moscow
Foundry: Infonta
URL: www.myfonts.com
Languages: Latin and Cyrillic
Designer’s Concept:
Amalta is a Display typeface with calligraphic background. It inherits weight and letter constructions from the original brush let- tering. Amalta’s Latin and Cyrillic sets were designed simultaneously with an equal attention to details and overall pattern. They both include initial and final swash forms, which can be used as a typographer chooses. Amalta is suitable for large size typesetting headlines, few-line texts, etc.
#T10
Typeface: FF Suhmo
Typeface Designer: Alex Rütten, Berlin, Germany
Foundry: FSI FontShop International
Members of Typeface Family/System: Regular, Regular Italic, Light, Light Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Black, and Black Italic
Designer’s Concept:
Suhmo is inspired by classic Egyptian and typewriter fonts such as Courier and American Typewriter, which feature headline and text use. This impressive duality was a guideline for the concept. At the same time, many formal details were derived from the typical neon – lettering you can find on aged Italian restaurants in Germany. Suhmo has short ascenders and descenders and a generous x- height, making it a good choice for editorial design. It combines simplicity and functionality with playfulness, offering interesting de- tails such as loops and swashes and a slight stroke contrast. Its varied details are unobtrusive in text sizes while developing character and sparkle in headlines. Suhmo’s extensive character set includes numerous special characters and ligatures, several figure sets, and small caps throughout all styles. The Suhmo family consists of four weights: Light, Regular, Bold, and Black, each with an Italic. The weights were staggered to complement each other within a layout, the Black corresponding to the Regular and the Light correspond- ing to the Bold weight, allowing words or phrases to be clearly stressed within a text. The Italics are lighter than the Roman and have a relatively slight angle of slope. The forms are derived from a manual writing process and often cross the base-line or the x-height.
#T15
Typeface: Nori
Typeface Designer: Neil Summerour, Jefferson, Georgia
Foundry: Positype
Designer’s Concept:
Nori is a hand-lettered typeface that contains over 1,100 glyphs, 250 ligatures, 487 alternate characters,125+ swash and titling alter- nates, lining and old style numerals. I do not use digital textures. It is the result of brush and ink on paper. The textures produced in each glyph are real and the imperfections are intentional and add to the sincerity of the letters.
To view the words and sentences formed by this typeface is to look at how my hand makes letters. The fluidity, as well as the irregu- larity, is human, honest and intentional. To do so lets the brush I am holding breathe life into each letter. Once digital, any number of points and repetitive processes can’t mask its influences – and I like that.
#T17
Typeface: Enzian
Typeface Designers: Jason Mannix and Lindsay Mannix, Washington, D.C.
Design Firm: Polygraph
Mentor: Photo-Lettering, Inc. / House Industries
URLs: www.polygraphcreative.com and www.myfonts.com
Members of Typeface Family/System: Regular (with small caps), Bold (with small caps), and Unconventional Italic
Designers Concept:
Enzian is the product of a German research fellowship sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. We set out with two goals: to better understand the technical nuance and complicated history of German Blackletter and produce an original typeface inspired by our findings. During our research, we discovered the extraordinary collections of the libraries in Munich, Nuremberg, and Vienna, and developed a humble appreciation for the craft of calligraphy. The result is a versatile Blackletter with uncommon depth, hand-influenced letterforms, and, hopefully, a bit of charm.
#T20
Typeface: Eames Poster Numerals
Typeface Designer: Erik van Blokland, The Hague, Netherlands
Foundry: House Industries, Yorklyn, Delaware
Designer’s Concept:
The Eames Poster Numerals are numerological necessities punctuated with a pulchritudinous parade of pachydermic power whose circusized woodcut-inspired shapes were drawn in three stackable weights and boast a broad range of color choices limited only by the imagination, RGB or CMYK spectra, and the availability of custom pigmented emulsions.
#T16
Typeface: Eventide
Typeface Designer: Jeremy Mickel, Providence, Rhode Island
Art Directors: Ken Barber and Christian Schwartz
Foundry: Photo-Lettering, Inc. / House Industries
URL: http://wwwphotolettering.com/
Members of Typeface Family/System
Banner, Diagonal, Dots, Fill, Highlight, Horizontal, Vertical, and Stroke
Designer’s Concept:
Originally designed by Paul Carlyle in the early 1940s, Eventide was added to the Photo-Lettering, Inc., film library in 1971 as a single-layer caps-only style. House Industries’ philosophy for the new Photo-Lettering service is to reinterpret the original designs, making them more useful for contemporary designers. We reimagined the alphabet to work in eight layers that can be combined or used independently, and expanded the character set to include a lowercase, punctuation, symbols, and a full complement of Central European accented characters.
Client: b_books, Tim Stüttgen (editor)
Principal Type: Monotype Grotesque and Times New Roman
Dimensions: 6.3 x 9.1 in. (16 x 23 cm) (#50)
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Design Office: Chen Design Associates
Client: Tell Tale Preserve Company
Principal Type: Bickham Script, Craw Modern, Joanna and Knockout
Dimensions: various
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Writers: Andrew Byrom and Renée Cossutta
Design: Andrew Byrom and Renée Cossutta
Clients: La Sierra University and University of Massachusetts Lowell
Principal Type: various
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in. (14 x 21.6 cm) (#24)