Typographica
A review of #lettering and #typography. Since 2002. Posts by editor @stewf.com.
Primarily on Mastodon with many from the type community: typo.social/@typographica
- Following a clear lineage from her Lo-Res to Modula to Program, Zuzana Licko’s newest design is the perfect marriage of her past experiments with variable technology: www.emigre.com/Fonts/Modula... #ZuzanaLicko #EmigreFonts #Fonts #TypeDesign
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- You know your stuff! Yes, seems like it.
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- Very!
- Even the most basic, middle, regular style in the family is radiating with personality.
- One of the many modular things that makes Modulator so aptly named, is that all nine styles share the same counter width. This creates a unifying rhythm that offers interesting possibilities when stacking multiple widths. Something like Nebiolo’s 1936 Neon, but in a totally Emigre way.
- There's no good directory of independent type foundries. So we built one. The type industry is dominated by Monotype—FontShop, Linotype, MyFonts, hundreds of "independent" faces. The Punch is the antidote. Buy direct. thepunch.studio
- Another small correction: There *are* good directories of independent foundries: e.g., @matthewsmith.website’s typefoundry.directory, @type-atlas.xyz, and typefoundries.info. Not discouraging you from making another, but maybe lean into what makes yours unique rather than declaring it the only one.
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- Wild to see this as a bank ad.
- Love the ethos of your site! Small niggle: why not name the people behind it? Always feels odd when a project is opaque about the humans who run it, especially one with such human values.
