Typeology Issue One

FONT QUESTIONS
Base & Ferrugem 1. Pode fornecer alguma introspecção à fundo/inspiração para a

criação desta font?
COMPANY A: SEMPRE PROCURO COMO FONTE DE INSPIRAÇÃO A MÚSICA,

FILMES, PAISAGENS DO DIA-A-DIA, COISAS QUE ESTÃO AO MEU
Fabrika De Typos REDOR, AS VEZES COSTUMO PROCURAR REVISTAS ANTIGAS,
FANZINES PUNK, CAPAS DE DISCOS, ENFIM ESSAS COISAS ME
INSPIRA MUITO.
DESIGNER 2. O que tem planejou para 2006?
Marcio Hirosse A: PARA 2006 PRETENDO CRIAR UM ACERVO MUITO MAIOR DE

FONTES, JÁ POSSUO VÁRIOS ESTUDOS, MAIS AINDA COM
MUITAS ALTERAÇÕES PARA SEREM FEITAS. MEU TRABALHO
LOCATION TAMBÉM É VOLTADO PARA MOTION GRAPHICS E IDENTIDADE

VISUAL E COM ISSO ACABO COLOCANDO A CRIAÇÃO DE FONTES
COMO UM PASSA TEMPO, MAIS NESSE ANO DE 2006 VOU
Brazil PROCURAR ME EMPENHAR MAIS. (RISOS)
3. Por favor fontes 5ive de lista que você nunca pode viver sem.
URL A: 1.TRABALHO
2.MUSICA
http://www.fabrikadetypos.com.br 3.INTERNET
4.FEIJOADA
5.MINHA CACHORRINHA.
EMAIL 4. Por favor sugira qualquer elos de teia, livros, recursos, música
contato@www.fabrikadetypos.com.br etc. que sente-se nossos leitores saber sobre.
A: Livro
Los Logos
This End Up
Sites
http://www.designinmotion.com
http://www.adobe.com
http://www.dafont.com
Música
BLACK FLAG
PIXIES
SMITHS
DEAD KENNEDYS
SEX PISTOLS
LALI PUNA
POPULOUS etc...
FONT QUESTIONS
Arch 1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the
creation of this font?
COMPANY A: I wanted to make something different. I started experimenting

with something other than classic bracketed or slab serifs. The
initial sketches I drew were almost exactly what you see in the
Solographic finished version. As of now there are only capitals -- it's meant for
large display. Also, I must thank Inge Druckrey whose advice dur-
ing the creation of this typeface was a big help.
DESIGNER 2. What do you have planned for 2006?
Sean Kelly
A: I'm graduating from school in May. After that I'm moving to New
York in search of a job! The purchase of a surf board is also likely.
LOCATION 3. Please list 5ive fonts that you could never live without.
Philadelphia, PA USA A: Trade Gothic
Clarendon
Caslon
URL Avant Garde
Requiem
http://www.solographic.com
4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,
etc. that you feel our readers should know about.
EMAIL A: Current inspiration:
sean@solographic.com Matt Curry - amazing art
http://ninjacruise.com/nc06/portal.htm
Daily Type
http://www.dailytype.ru
Die Getsalten
http://www.die-gestalten.de/
FONT QUESTIONS
Human? 1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the
COMPANY A: The Human? font was a total surprise to us regarding the project.
Andre Nossek sent it to us as part of his submission from
Viagrafik. He sent it along with a great video and amazing print
fontmonster piece, oh, as well as a playing card. A very strong submission and
really lifted the spirit of the project.
Andre Nossek A: We are looking at a huge online project for 2006. It's all top
secret but promises to be exciting should it fail or succeed. I'm
also working on a animated tv show with a life long pal. It's still
LOCATION in the planning stage but he is writing and I'm busy developing
thedesigns and scenes as well as learning as much as I can about
3D, animation and compositing. I have a little background in all
Eurpoe of those so It's all shaping up. That should be ready for approach-
ing TV companies in 2007 if we get our heads down.
URL 3. Please list 5ive fonts that you could never live without.
http://www.fontmonster.org A: I used to always use helvetica but now I just use whatever is
around and try to switch from project to project. If it's work relat-
ed as in my full time job I just use whatever they tell me to use.
It's like that there.
EMAIL
dave@fontmonster.org 4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,
A: I think a shameless self plug is appropriate here, Freewave by

Booth-Clibborn has over 40 fonts, sounds, code, illustrations and
photos as well as a bunch of other stuff so thats a great resource.
I also love the Designer Shock book DSOS1, if you can get a hold
of that it's definitely worth having. As for information I think
http://digg.com and www.boingboing.net are a must have in your
faves.
the constructions of Pacioli or de Yciar. I am also considering an
FONT OpenType version of Respess which would automatically alter-
nate between the four weights. This may be the year I get around
Duerer & Halcyon to making the flowing script that is always hanging around in my
brain, but no promises! I like to work slowly, for the love of it.
I plan to offer lettering and font design classes at City College of

COMPANY San Francisco as I did last Fall. Also, in the summer I would like
to take on a couple of students interested in learning font-mak-
l´Abécédarienne ing who want to intern.
3. Please list 5ive fonts that you could never live without.
DESIGNER A: 1. Georgia
2. Syntax
Amy Conger 3. Nars
4. Unibody8
5. the rest are negotiable
LOCATION 4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,
USA etc. that you feel our readers should know about.
A: Typophile.com
URL http://www.typophile.com
How to draw thorn and eth

http://www.abecedarienne.com/ http://briem.ismennt.is/2/2.11/
Gentium
EMAIL http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_i
d=Gentium
abc@abecedarienne.com
The Alphabet Synthesis Machine
http://alphabet.tmema.org/
QUESTIONS Calligraphy: From Calligraphy to Abstract Painting by Claude

Mediavilla
1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9080332518/qid=1138341
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1248953?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
A: Halycon was designed by accident while I was trying out
FontLab's drawing tools. I drew the capitals (somewhat inspired The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson
by Moderne type) quickly in one go and then went back some http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500281564/qid=1138341
months later and filled in the lower case. To finish it, I worked 986/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-5016008-
with Mark Clarin, a young designer who helped me slog through 1248953?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
all the little details. I owe a debt of gratitude to the critique team
at TypeCon 2004 (Matthew Carter, John Downer, and Akira Letter Perfect : The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to
Kobayashi) who gave me great suggestions for refining the font. Z by David Sacks
It turned out to look more whimsical than it would have had I http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
planned it, and I love it /0767911733/qid=1138342040/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-
5016008-1248953?v=glance&s=books
With Duerer Capitals, it was a matter of my seeing the drawings
and saying, "Ooh, I want to make that into a font!" Albrecht HP Lovecraft Historical Society fonts collection
Duerer and so many of his contemporaries did their best to http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/PROPDOCS/PropFonts.html
quantify what makes a Roman capital letter pleasing to the eye.
While I am not sure that can ever be expressed entirely mathe- Manfred Klein's collection at Typoasis
matically, they certainly made some beautiful drawings while try- http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein/index.htm
ing to do so. They are, to me, evocative of the architecture of the
time, of flying buttresses and stained glass windows.. My instructional page at City College of San Francisco
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~aconger/
2. What do you have planned for 2006? in case anyone's interested in classes
A: I have a font in the works that is inspired by "naïve" lettering

from a lost cat flyer, everything else is is still in the "maybe" col-
umn. I may also follow up the Duerer fonts with fonts based on
FONT QUESTIONS
Frakturika & Sodium'76 1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the
COMPANY A: Frakturika is a Fette Fraktur - Helvetica mixed font. Basically,

though I couldn't get an idea of the result, the goal was to mix
two very trendy fonts. I was surprised to see that it resulted like
Stereo-Type an error, a typographic failure, a bastard font. So I decided to add
here and there some graphic signs reffering to spam mail (Re :
your letter ; Re : your software...). Many people asked me to send
DESIGNER another font because it was corrupted ! The goal was reached.
But I preferred to included a "not corrupted" version of the font.
Clément Nicolle Sodium'76 was first designed to illustrate a book about history of
circus. But now, I think that it has a trendy style and I really like
how it works for big titles. I like this handcut effect too.
LOCATION 2. What do you have planned for 2006?
France
A: My new website (www.stereo-type.net) entirely dedicated to type
experiment will be online very soon. I'm planning to set up an
URL online payment system for a few font but, it will also contain free
fonts of course.
http://www.stereo-type.net But above all, I've planned for 2006 to keep much more time for
my family and friends.
EMAIL 3. Please list 5ive fonts that you could never live without.
clementnicolle@orange.fr A: Helvetica (of course !), Din, FF Info, Parisine Plus, Mest, but
honestly, I couldn't live with only 5 fonts.

A: Tons of useful links here : http://www.newstoday.com ; there :

http://www.surfstation.lu and there: http://youworkforthem.com
Don't miss "No Logo" by Naomi Klein, but I'm sure everybody
already read it!
FONT QUESTIONS
Destroyed License Plate 1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the
DESIGNER A: "Destroyed License Plate" has been created from pictures I took
with my camera, of old broken license plates i found in the
streets of the City of Lights (Paris). I wanted to create a font that
Damien Gosset have a true trash feeling, so i thought the best thing to do was to
find real trashed letters. Then i had to create some letters and
special caracters you cannot find on licence plates...
France
A: Nothing special... find a new job, and find some time tocreate
new fonts. Having a nice girlfriend (hi Lilly !) takes a lot of time...
URL 3. Please list 5ive fonts that you could never live without.
http://mgosset.free.fr/cv/ A: Verdana (as i'm a webdesigner), Yanone "Kaffeesatz",Linotype
"Banco", Linotype "KursivSchrift", Umbrella "Ministry Script".
Can I add Underware "Bello Pro" ?
EMAIL 4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,
daaams@laposte.net etc. that you feel our readers should know about.
A: weblinks :
http://www.dafont.com (the best free fonts)
http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc (Luc Devroye's font listing,
really complete!)
books :
Coin Locker Babies (Murakami Ryu, JP)
Jiu Guo (Mo Yan, CN)
music :
Carreer Suicide (CA, 80's hardcore)
DFA (CA, thrashcore)
Municipal Waste (USA, thrashcore)
Dead Stop (BE, hardcore)
Svinkels (FR, hip-hop)
Mano Solo (FR, singer)
the usual Latin keyboard characters and an all-new lower case
FONT that Rick himself would be proud of (hopefully).
http://www.k-type.com/kernel/
CyberScript
I must write a piece about Typeology for the Kernel on the K-Type
website!
COMPANY FlatPack is a modular font made from the square fits-together

flat pack pieces I received from Gavin Peacock, also known as
K-Type the mailartist 'The Man from Icon'. I couldn't think of what to
make from his cardboard pieces so I made a font.
DESIGNER I'd like this year to give up teaching Art in a high school. My part-
ner Leanda has just launched her graphic design business and
I'd like to be her slave, tea-boy, gopher and student of CSS.
Keith Bates She's a brilliant designer and takes marvellous photographs too.
We live in hope and are working hard to make it happen.
http://www.leandaryan.com/ We'd both like to go to New York
LOCATION again if we ever make any money.
UK
A: First off the starting block would be Helvetica. It's not perfect but
it is fab. I know it's unfashionable to say so, but I quite like Arial
URL too, infectious solution to the fussy G of Akzidenz Grotesk.
http://www.k-type.com/ In fact, I don't need five fonts, if I've only got five I'll just stick
with Helvetica thanks. I suppose I should choose a serif, Georgia
looks nice on the web and Minion is great for print, and a script,
EMAIL Zapfino is a beauty. No, it's no use, I'll stick with Helvetica or you
give me the five hundred I need to stay sane!
keith@k-type.com 4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,

QUESTIONS A: I found Chank Diesel's 'How to make your own fonts' pretty
1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the inspirational when I started - http://www.chank.com/howto/
The Swedish foundry Fountain is well worth a peek -
A: CyberScript was inspired by some lettering from Bond and http://www.fountain.nu/catalogue/ericsans.asp
Coyne Associates in Charlotte Rivers' excellent book about cus-
tom fonts, Type Specific (RotoVision). The lettering had been I really enjoyed '3 Found Fonts' by Jake Tilson
made out of metallic security tape. I took the basic shapes of + Lewis Blackwell's '20th Century Type'
their lower case, made a few changes and added a whole new
upper case and a full range of symbols and accents. Even on K- John Lennon's Dirty Mac with a great guitar solo from Eric
Type freebies we always like to provide a full compliment of Clapton -
Latin keyboard glyphs - none of those missing sterling or euro http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/0510/dirty_mac_-_yer_blues.mpg
symbols, etc.
CyberScript Shimmer is the wobbly 'n' wavy freebie. It just

seemed like a good idea at the time, a bit of fun that proved per-
fect for Typeology. The straight version will probably prove more
useful for designers, that's going to appear soon as a pay font
on the K-Type website.
2. What do you have planned for 2006?
A: I've got a couple of other fonts also close to being ready to put
up.
Rick Griffin and Rick Griffin Contour are based on Rick's beauti-
ful poster lettering from the San Francisco Sixties. If you've seen
the font 'Hendrix' by David Nalle you've got the idea. True to K-
Type form, Rick Griffin and Rick Griffin Contour are full fonts, all
FONT QUESTIONS
Don Giovanni Makin Enemies 1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the
COMPANY A: Basically, I like to make stuff that looks like it got pulled out of a
gutter and then punched in the face. Coming from a punk rock
background, I like to use type that is distressed and unconven-
Pennyzine tional, and I tend to cater to punk bands who like my fonts for
thier flyers, etc.
Jason Ramirez A: I plan on drinking a lot of beer and coffee, and making a few
fonts in between.
LOCATION
A: Budapest, Base 02, Blue Baby, Boycott, Cartaz, Dirty Ego,
USA Downcome, Arial

URL etc. that you feel our readers should know about.
http://www.pennyzine.com/ A: punkvoter.com, propagandhi, alkaline trio, getup kids, atmos-

phere, the dan band, sarahasaturday.com, stimtv.com, realulti-
matepower.com, designiskinky.com, punkplanet.com, "the best
EMAIL democracy money can buy" - Gregg Palast, "Lies my Techer Told
Me" - James Loewen, "State by State with The State" - The
State..... I could go on, but I won't,...haha.
pennyzine@gmail.com
FONT QUESTIONS
Cinquenta mil meticais & dinarjev republika 1. Can you provide some insight to the background for the
COMPANY A: Both fonts are inspired by characters from banknotes that

friends brought me from various trips around the globe.
"Cinquenta mil meticais" is based on a banknote from mosam-
polenimschaufenster bique, "dinarjev republika" on letters on banknotes from a for-
mer yougoslavian country. Dinarjev features some kyrillic let-
ters and with its heavy outlines the crumpled and slightly dis-
DESIGNER tressed look from the old banknotes it gets this special "ost-
block" kind of feel.
Hannes Siengalewicz There are some more old banknotes that lost its value that I
collected over time and im planning to complete them to a big-
ger collection or font family someday.
Austria
A: Im currently working on the launch of polenimschaufenster.com
which is gonna be part portfoliosite, featuring my recent works
URL for various austrian bands and record labels and part font
foundry. There are gonna be some commercial fonts for the first
time, but there will still be the old free fonts and also some new
www.jestyle.net/polenimschaufenster/ ones, available for free. Also expect some reworked and updated
versions of fonts that I already published.
EMAIL For my diploma that I just finished, I experimented with openType

programming and created a font family based on inscriptions on
gravestones, called EpigraphFonts, which will also be available
hannes.siengalewicz@chello.at for purchase.
A: This one is tough. I recently fell in love with Chaparral, I use it

over and over again. Other favourites? AvantGarde, Dolly, Absara
and Akzidenz Grotesk.

A: Everybody already knows all those fontresource-sites around so

I'll go with music. bands with beards rock! and you should love
them too! aereogramme, he is legend, bear vs. shark, JR Ewing
(ok, its a moustache, not a full one), dredg and facing new york.
Go out an buy their cds or LPs, now!
And for people who know german: go and get the book "Fleisch
ist mein Gemüse" by Heinz Strunk. This is one of the few books
that makes me laugh out loud and spray tears out of my eyes. Get
it now!
FONT QUESTIONS
Shell Shock 1. What do you have planned for 2006?
A: I have a lot of exiting plan for this year, but my first priority in
COMPANY 2006 is to *finally* get my font family Nordic Narrow ready. Peter
Bruhn from Fountain has been waiting much too long for it (sorry
Peter). A lot of people are asking me where they can buy it so I
Characters really need to finish it. I've been working on it on and off for the
last two years. If I wait longer the font will be outdated. ;-)
DESIGNER Last year I got into contact with Grant Hutchinson at Veer. They
liked my fonts and we agreed to release 6 of my fonts in their
Umbrella collection. We will spread the releases out over the
®ené Verkaart year. I loved Veer from the beginning so I'm exited about our
cooporation.
LOCATION I do a lot of custom typefaces for friends and clients, so I have a

few interesting releases coming up. Three new font releases are
planned for february 2006.
Netherlands
Last but not least, my website will be upgraded. I feel more and
more the need to give background information about my fonts
URL and share knowledge with the typograpical community. This will
be reflected in my website, because that's my channel to talk to
http://www.characters.nl/ the people out there.
EMAIL A: It's hard to give you five names, because I like to always change
the fonts around me. I guess my most favourite fonts are:
rene@characters.nl Helvetica Neue, Scala, Meta, Insider and Verdana.
. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music, etc.

that you feel our readers should know about.
A: Websites
An absolute must!!!: www.typophile.com
http://www.lounge72.com/
http://ventilate.ca/
http://www.newstoday.com/
http://www.designaside.com
http://www.core77.com/
Blogs
http://www.fontblog.de/
http://www.technorati.com/tag/typografie
http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/
RSS
http://www.justincone.com/wordpress/wp-rss2.php
http://www.lounge72.com/root/xml.php
http://houseind.com/showandtell/?rss=1
http://blog.veer.com/index.xml
http://www.fontblog.de/rss.xml
http://www.characters.nl/rss/rss.xml
Music
Anything from Prince, Bjork, Global Communication, Grandmaster
Flash, Whodini, Boards of Canada, 4Hero, The Jacksons and
Cashmere.
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FONT QUESTIONS

Base & Ferrugem 1. Pode fornecer alguma introspecção à fundo/inspiração para a

COMPANY A: SEMPRE PROCURO COMO FONTE DE INSPIRAÇÃO A MÚSICA,

DESIGNER 2. O que tem planejou para 2006?

Marcio Hirosse A: PARA 2006 PRETENDO CRIAR UM ACERVO MUITO MAIOR DE

LOCATION TAMBÉM É VOLTADO PARA MOTION GRAPHICS E IDENTIDADE

COMPANY A: I wanted to make something different. I started experimenting

DESIGNER 2. What do you have planned for 2006?

A: I think a shameless self plug is appropriate here, Freewave by

I plan to offer lettering and font design classes at City College of

How to draw thorn and eth

QUESTIONS Calligraphy: From Calligraphy to Abstract Painting by Claude

A: I have a font in the works that is inspired by "naïve" lettering

COMPANY A: Frakturika is a Fette Fraktur - Helvetica mixed font. Basically,

4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,

A: Tons of useful links here : http://www.newstoday.com ; there :

COMPANY FlatPack is a modular font made from the square fits-together

keith@k-type.com 4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,

CyberScript Shimmer is the wobbly 'n' wavy freebie. It just

2. What do you have planned for 2006?

DESIGNER 2. What do you have planned for 2006?

4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,

http://www.pennyzine.com/ A: punkvoter.com, propagandhi, alkaline trio, getup kids, atmos-

COMPANY A: Both fonts are inspired by characters from banknotes that

EMAIL For my diploma that I just finished, I experimented with openType

A: This one is tough. I recently fell in love with Chaparral, I use it

4. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music,

A: Everybody already knows all those fontresource-sites around so

LOCATION I do a lot of custom typefaces for friends and clients, so I have a

. Please suggest any web links, books, resources, music, etc.

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