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07/27/2017

Financier is Klim's () new typeface family drawn for the 2014 redesign of the Financial Times. The brief was to produce a sharper, more modern newspaper that showed off the FT’s strengths in reporting, analysis and visual journalism. Financier is an elegant, authoritative serif with distinct Display and Text designs that transition from screen to page seamlessly.

03/29/2017

J / Typewriter / A2-Type / Henrik Kubel. "When we moved into our studio in 2000 an original Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter was left behind. We used a typed proof from the machine to make a digital version as our ‘default’ studio typeface."

03/28/2017

Swiss styling collides with the unexpected construction and wonky imperfectionism of 20th century American wood type in Lucas Sharp’s monument to Adrian Frutiger: Sharp Grotesk. With its exuberant personality, ink traps, and incredible range of moods, Sharp Grotesk is a brand new and uniquely American perspective on the genre of the multi-width grotesk.

03/17/2017

The serial comma, unloved by many guides for writers, gets a starring role in a legal case.

08/21/2016

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https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10150879419839999

Cursive is a useless practice, and someday all printing may be, too.

07/26/2016

U / Gandur Alte / Blackletra / Daniel Sabino. Gandur is a display textura in three weights, split into two families: Alte -- the German word for 'old' -- and New. Gandur was inspired by other geometric texturas, specially Max Bittrof’s Element (1933). The design began by adhering to a strict hexagonal grid, but during its development, slowly moved from a purely geometric to a more pen-based design. This is especially true in the heaviest weights.

http://vllg.com/blackletra/gandur-alte
https://www.instagram.com/p/5u8VJAMbhs

07/13/2016

07/13/2016

THE RETIRING TYPE
The curious story of the man behind the London Underground’s signature font
https://www.1843magazine.com/content/arts/catherine-nixey/retiring-type

"IF YOU HAD been in London on a Monday afternoon in the 1920s, you might have spotted a dark-haired man with an Elgar moustache and a “remote, lost look in his eyes” standing near a bus stop. The man was Edward Johnston and his dreamy look, combined with his tweed coat and cherrywood walking stick, led people to take him for a hapless countryman, lost in the city. As his daughter said later, “The bus stop, he was told kindly, was further on; it was no use waiting there.”

It is one of those family tales that are cherished partly for their whiff of irony. Johnston not only knew where to stand for a bus and where it was going; he was the man who ensured that the rest of London did too. It was he who created the London Underground font, and honed its roundel, the circle with a line through it that appears on London buses, taxis, souvenir mugs and T-shirts. The font is now a symbol for London itself...."

07/12/2016

V / Superior Title / MCKL / Jeremy Mickel. Superior Title is a high contrast Traditional typeface, a kind of missing link between Bodoni and Times.

https://vllg.com/mckl/superior-title
https://vllg.com/mckl/superior-title/samples

07/08/2016

W / Router / MCKL / Jeremy Mickel. Router exists at the intersection of mechanical and organic. Unlike other rounded sans serifs with simple rounded terminals, Router flexes outward, mimicking the physical process of carving letters into plastic or metal.

http://vllg.com/mckl/router
https://www.instagram.com/p/47o5LYMbhW/?taken-by=vllg

07/04/2016

vllgX / Haltrix / Blackletra / Daniel Sabino. The concept for Haltrix was to head in the exact opposite direction of most script fonts, purposely making a 'masculine' script face; the starting point being Sabino's own handwriting.

http://vllg.com/blackletra/haltrix/samples
https://www.instagram.com/p/42DFAzsbl-/?taken-by=vllg

06/30/2016

Y / Rum Sans / Trine Rask / Incubator / 2012 Rum is designed inside out, focusing on the counters.
http://vllg.com/incubator/rum-sans
https://www.instagram.com/p/4hWn2osbs0