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- 01.30.12
Neacademia
Florian Hardwig: Addendum: This review was not even published yet, when Rosetta already announced an update. This new version addresses my few… - 01.30.12
Sutturah
Marian Bantjes: I love this! My highest compliment: envy.… - 01.29.12
Chartwell
André Mora: I really like Chartwell and have used it for editorial design. I'm impressed by its ingenuity and excited by what it may insp… - 01.29.12
Nassim
Dave Foster: Titus, congratulations for completing this huge project with such care and attention and thank you to Thierry for shining suc… - 01.28.12
Ambicase Fatface
Stephen Coles: Celebrating its inclusion on this list, Ambicase Fatface is now 30% off at MyFonts.… - 01.27.12
Neue Haas Grotesk
Erik Spiekermann: That, Matthew, is why Helvetica was so successful: nobody except a few Swiss & German designers would have ever dared order t… - 01.27.12
Apple Color Emoji
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Changing
André Mora: I would love to read a 5,000 word review by Paul Shaw on this typeface. Though something tells me he'd only need 5.… - 01.26.12
Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011
Stephen Coles: Jason Santa Maria just posted a nice summary of highlights from the list.…
The two qualities I admire most about Olsen’s work are one, his embrace and integration of new technology; and two, his ability to refresh older forms, making them relevant to modern design. The second of those two qualities is inherent in Stratum which borrows the best ideas from faces like Agency, Eurostile, and Bank Gothic and adds Olsen’s unique aesthetic to create an original, useful sans family.
Hah, just read my comment again. Can you tell I visited a museum of modern art yesterday and read all the exhibition material?
Hah, just read my comment again. Can you tell I visited a museum of modern art yesterday and read all the exhibition material?
Yes.
Process is a very special foundry.
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Is it just me or does FindReplace look a lot like Unibody?
I love Stratum! It has that I want something modern and cool but not too technoey feel. Very cool.
I like the fact that even though Stratum is very square:ish, there is still has a warm humanist feeling to it.
> Process is a very special foundry.
And Eric is a very special sort of designer…
I once had a neuroscience professor at the University of Minnesota whose lectures, lab work, and publications were imbued with creativity, painstaking care, professionalism, and integrity. Eric reminds me very much of this professor: His own approach, methods, and work show these same qualities in abundance.
I’m not aware of said find and replace function in fontlab. Would someone care to enlighten me? Selecting a particular set of vectors to replace sounds rather ingenious.
Thank you for all the kind words guys.
Really, too much.
As for the find and replace function in FL, simply go
to Edit and select Find (or just F3).
I’m very much digging Stratum 1 and 2. For some reason they make me think very much of a very 50′s kind of dystopian future, wherein everything is rendered in concrete, but also shag carpet. And these fonts make that a good thing. I can see a 2-storey high sign in Stratum, i.e. “Human Processing Factory #4″. So dystopian, but it would look lovely.
“Soylent green is people.”
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EXACTLY. But wouldn’t you buy a box of Soylent Green if it had this kind of font on it, and you lived in a dystopian future?
The answer, I feel, is yes.
The reason I’d buy Soylent green is the reason everybody else would be buying Soylent green: beef is $100 a pound.
I think the best font for Soylent green packaging is Helvetica – or as I like to call it, Helvomita.
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