Sketches by dr. mendez and nurse wickland
I think our lowercase g is our screwiest letter. It evolved into something quite odd. It has parts that other letters do not have. It also has an ear. It’s often drawn just like a dog’s ear.
Two of my students have been pondering (above) other letters that should have ears.
This week, Jeanne Moderno ended up with the dubious honor of being on the
Merkwürdige Schriften 2009 (Strange Types 2009) list over at Slanted.
Thanks guys! Strange, that would be the best way to put it.
Here’s a link. Here’s the same link translated into dubious English.
‘The choice of a ‘chamfered’ industrial style works well with the marquee-esque bulb lighting. It also has historical ties with large-scale lettering . . .’
The 2010 numbers are ready to go in Times Square! Details in this typographic article by Nick Sherman.
Plus
Here’s some historical Times Square signage from the Artkraft Strauss Archive:
‘Chernikov drew by hand what today can seem only possible with a computer.’
I Love Typography takes a look at the limited edition monograph Graphic Masterpieces of Yakov G. Chernikhov: The Collection of Dmitry Y. Chernikov. Chernikhov’s work is on par with Dürer or Tory. Read more here.
I’m going gaga over the Poker Neutra Face video (above).
Neutraface in use in the Quantum of Solace (2008) logo (below).
The Neutraface fonts are a product of House Industries.
Click on the above images to jump to places/articles.
Arno Kathollnig/Typoatelier has been making typographic wallpapers. He had featured my Jeanne Moderno fonts as part of an earlier series. He’s back with a sequel (above). Go here.
When I drew Jeanne Moderno, my hopes were the fonts would end up somewhere in a cool fashion magazine.
UK-based Ponytail has em and has used them beautifully in their third issue. Website here.
‘Talk about a psychedelic mimicking of rubricated blackletter!’ –Tiffany Wardle
South Central Swiss is a free fontstruct by dom nokes (domald). Grab it here.
Check out domald’s other fontstructs here.
Mota Italic the name of a type foundry out of Berlin. Their types are both unique and (most important) very usable. Check out their Vesper text types here.
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