{"id":25486,"date":"2011-02-05T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T06:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25486"},"modified":"2011-02-10T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T20:09:00","slug":"dorets-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25486","title":{"rendered":"Doret&#8217;s type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/alphabetsoup\/deliscript\/\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Doret1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have one little parallel with Michael Doret. <\/p>\n<p>I like to do type revivals &#8211; interpretations &#8211; of vernacular lettering that we often take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/steve-mehallo\/martini-at-joes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martini at Joe&#8217;s<\/a> fonts are all about this. I based them on my favorite restaurants, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3911\"target=\"_blank\">Joe&#8217;s<\/a> of Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>And Doret based his fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/alphabetsoup\/deliscript\/\"target=\"_blank\"target=\"_blank\">Deliscript<\/a> on signage lettering of world famous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canter%27s\">Canter&#8217;s Deli<\/a> on Fairfax in LA. This led to him developing their catering truck. All elements of an incredible body of work. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterstruck.com\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Doret3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MyFonts caught up with Doret recently &#8211; and the result is a great interview. <\/p>\n<p>Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/newsletters\/cc\/201101.html\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More of his work below &#8211; including his incredible <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/alphabetsoup\/steinweiss-script\/\"target=\"_blank\">Seinweiss Script types,<\/a> adapted from the handlettering of Alex Seinweiss, originator of what we know today as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taschen.com\/lookinside\/05039\/index.htm\"target=\"_blank\">Album Covers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Official website (with blog) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/alphabetsoup\/steinweiss-script\/\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Doret6.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Doret10.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Doret4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeldoret.com\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Doret9.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Doret's type\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25486\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have one little parallel with Michael Doret. I like to do type revivals &#8211; interpretations &#8211; of vernacular lettering that we often take for granted. My Martini at Joe&#8217;s fonts are all about this. I based them on my favorite restaurants, the Joe&#8217;s of Northern California. And Doret based his fantastic Deliscript on signage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,52,50,54,51,120],"tags":[121,67,58,123,122],"class_list":["post-25486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-culinary","category-design","category-design-history","category-illustration","category-typography","tag-design","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-illustration","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25486"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25595,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25486\/revisions\/25595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}