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Last edited May 23, 2014
chalet
microphysics
Design munificent assemblaged

FF Amman was designed in both Latin and Arabic and is one of the very few bi-script families where both the Arabic and the Latin characters were concurrently drawn from scratch by the same designer. It’s also the first typeface of its kind to contain “true Arabic italics,” instead of the much more common oblique versions often paired with the Arabic script. The unconventional family includes... Read More

always
illustrative
Do not write on the stalactites

FF Amman was designed in both Latin and Arabic and is one of the very few bi-script families where both the Arabic and the Latin characters were concurrently drawn from scratch by the same designer. It’s also the first typeface of its kind to contain “true Arabic italics,” instead of the much more common oblique versions often paired with the Arabic script. The unconventional family includes... Read More

jungle
zygapophysis
Green ecology limitless magnificence

On the way back to the airport from the 1994 ATypI conference in San Francisco, Albert-Jan Pool and Erik Spiekermann discussed Pool’s prospects, Spiekermann knowing that his friend’s employer had just gone out of business. He suggested that if Pool wanted to make some money in type design, that he take a closer... Read More

vortex
enthusiastic
It is warm and fragrant to hint

FF Suhmo draws inspiration from classic slab serif types, particularly those used as and derived from typewriter faces, like Courier and American Typewriter. Designer Alex Rütten took influence from these and several other sources when creating FF Suhmo, like the neon-lettering typical of old Italian restaurants across Germany for instance. The design has short ascenders and descenders, a large... Read More

Balduina Boudewijn Ietswaart and Circulo de Tipografos Circulo de Tipografos 2010
jungle
zygapophysis
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day

When the semi-serif Museo became a success in 2008, its designer Jos Buivenga researched some possibilities of other versions. Museo Sans was not that difficult because making a sans out of a (semi) serif is — more or less — cutting off the serifs and adjusting weight, width and contrast. So… Buivenga made Museo Sans and while doodling around and fiddling with slab serifs to make Museo Slab,... Read More

rocket
guitarfishes
Piglet rising and falling in front

FF DIN Round comes as a welcome addition to the most popular family in the FontFont library and brings warmth to FF DIN’s simplicity and industrial sterility. The face is more than a programmatically rounded version of its predecessor. Albert-Jan Pool and his team reworked each letterform to maintain the structure of the original. This ensures FF DIN and FF DIN... Read More

rocket
microphysics
Every encounter keep treasure

PampaType’s tribute to Giambattista Bodoni takes the form of a humorous yet sensual fat face for display use, in both solid and engraved forms. Four years after Giambattista’s death, his widow Margherita published the two volumes of the famous Manuale Tipografico, a significant type catalogue of the époque. Let Margarita captivate the reader by deploying its sensual curves at huge sizes.... Read More

Yanone
FontFont 2010
Yanone
FontFont 2010
Albert-Jan Pool
FontFont 1995
Jos Buivenga
exljbris 2008
Saku Heinänen
Typolar 2010
Hannes von Döhren
HVD Fonts
Jos Buivenga
exljbris 2008
Alex Rütten
FontFont 2010
Boudewijn Ietswaart and Circulo de Tipografos
Circulo de Tipografos 2010

exljbris
Albert-Jan Pool
FontFont 2010
Jarno Lukkarila
Typolar 2009
Craig Eliason
Teeline Fonts 2010
Jos Buivenga
exljbris
Alejandro Lo Celso
PampaType 2010
Alejandro Paul
Sudtipos