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TDC2 2002 Award Winners

The Type Directors Club of New York awarded these typefaces a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design in its annual TDC2 competition.

Last edited December 08, 2014

These selections won the recognition of the jury at the annual type design competition organized by the Type Directors Club of New York, a non-profit professional organization dedicated to educating its international membership and the graphic arts community about type, type design, and its myriad of uses in the field of communications.

The contest was judged by Jill Bell, John Downer, Dennis Pasternak and Richard Weltz. Gary Munch chaired the jury.

This Fontlist shows all the winning designs that are offered through FontShop.

winter
microphysics
Slip away the hot chicken slice

Brioso is a new typeface family designed in the calligraphic tradition of the Latin alphabet. Brioso displays the look of a fi nely-penned roman and italic script, retaining the immediacy of hand lettering while having the scope and functionality of a contemporary composition family. Brioso blends the humanity of written forms with the clarity of digital design, allowing designers to set pages... Read More

always
microphysics
Help oneself terminating machine

Brioso is a new typeface family designed in the calligraphic tradition of the Latin alphabet. Brioso displays the look of a fi nely-penned roman and italic script, retaining the immediacy of hand lettering while having the scope and functionality of a contemporary composition family. Brioso blends the humanity of written forms with the clarity of digital design, allowing designers to set pages... Read More

vortex
conceptional
Please present your octopus

Designer Nick Curtis found the inspiration for this typeface on a 1920s poster for a German bookseller, by Berlin poster artist Paul Scheurich. ITC Jeepers retains the spontaneity and playfulness of Scheurich¿s original lettering and adds a few surprises of its own, one being the somewhat exclamatory ear on the lowercase `g.¿ It was, in fact, the excited look of this particular character that... Read More

safety
japanophilia
Please present your octopus

In designing Minion font, Robert Slimbach was inspired by the timeless beauty of the fonts of the late Renaissance. Minion was created primarily as a traditional text font but adapts well to today's digital technology, presenting the richness of the late baroque forms within modern text formats. This clear, balanced font is suitable for almost any use.

rocket
microphysics
Do not write on the stalactites

Myriad® was designed in 1992 by Robert Slimbach, Carol Twombly, and the design staff at Adobe Systems. It's a humanist sans serif typeface, meaning that the forms are primarily based on classic romans, much like conventional or classic serifed fonts but without the serifs. Myriad also has subtle geometric shaping and monotone color, balanced by varying letter widths and open counter shapes. A... Read More

Robert Slimbach
Adobe 2004
Robert Slimbach
Adobe 2004
Nick Curtis
ITC 2002
Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1992
Carol Twombly and Robert Slimbach
Adobe 1992
Ian Patterson
Monotype