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“ Font designers who are able to marry critical and commercial success are a unique mixture of two basic clichés: the artist and the scientist. They are eclectic, curious, obsessive and absorbed, as well as rigorous, punctilious, enamoured of rules and limitations, and loyal to a higher code of design behaviour. They are an even more different breed among the many different breeds of designers working today. Contending now with the dynamic methods of communication provided by tablet computers, smartphones and other supports for text and brand, they deal with each family of fonts as if it were truly made of individuals, live characters that need to be able to fend for themselves once released into the wider world. In this vein, font design might just be the most advanced form of design existing today.”
![Cassise by Malte Herok at Type]Media 2011
Perfect illustration of how variation in type can be all about contrast and counters, not just weight and width.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnrqpbIVu31qz4sk0o1_500.jpg)
Cassise by Malte Herok at Type]Media 2011
Perfect illustration of how variation in type can be all about contrast and counters, not just weight and width.
Erik van Blokland’s classic letter sketching method, passed down from Gerrit Noordzij and taught at the The Hague.
»A quick recording of sketching letterforms from the inside out. Postpone drawing the actual outline until you have an idea where it is. Just drawing any line isn’t going to make it the right one. Better to ignore drawing the contour altogether and focus on proportion, contrast, weight, the white shapes as well as the black shape.«
I see him do this live at least once a year. Even if you have no skill with a pen (like me) you can learn a lot about the structure of various letterforms and typeface styles this way.
(via kupferschmidt)
Making Geometric Type Work by Ian Moore
Typographica awakes from a long slumber with some tips for those who hope they can fashion an ‘S’ from two circles.
