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Personal Collection

Fonts of these fine families (which are available through FontShop) found a new home in my personal type collection.

Nikolaus Alexander Stohn
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Last edited March 15, 2016
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conceptional
Hot and spicy duck heart

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

brandy
guitarfishes
Slippery chicken hot pot young

The Akko™ typeface family is the first new design from Akira Kobayashi in a very long time - and it is well worth the wait. Early in his career, Kobayashi drew original typefaces for the likes of Adobe, ITC, FontFont, Linotype and TypeBox. In the spring of 2001 he joined Linotype as type director and for the next several years collaborated with Adrian Frutiger and Hermann Zapf in the... Read More

vortex
guitarfishes
The grass is smiling at you

The Akko™ typeface family is the first new design from Akira Kobayashi in a very long time - and it is well worth the wait. Early in his career, Kobayashi drew original typefaces for the likes of Adobe, ITC, FontFont, Linotype and TypeBox. In the spring of 2001 he joined Linotype as type director and for the next several years collaborated with Adrian Frutiger and Hermann Zapf in the... Read More

mystic
ultraviolets
Do not use pool during fiery rain

Eurostile Next is Linotype's redrawn and expanded version of Aldo Novarese's 1962 design. This new version refers back to the original metal types and to its mid-century modern aesthetic of squarish characters and subtle curves. Eurostile Next brings back the gentle curves, which were lost in other digital versions, therefore regaining the spirit of the original design and its somewhat softer... Read More

chalet
fiddlesticks
Funny is an attitude

The typeface FF Transit is a highly legible design that works well for readers who need quick orientation while en route. Made to blend aesthetic quality with legibility, it was originally developed by MetaDesign in Berlin for official use by the Berlin Public Transportation Services (BVG) and Düsseldorf Airport. Based on the proportions of Frutiger (licensed from Linotype), it was freshly... Read More

chalet
ultraviolets
Do not use pool during fiery rain

Under the guidance of Albert-Jan Pool and Professor André Heers, Jakob Runge started designing the typeface that would ultimately become FF Franziska as part of his studies at Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. The robust text face performs well in body text, while its more extreme weights do the work of setting headlines. Details such as its short descenders accommodate tighter... Read More

brandy
ultraviolets
The best things in life are furry

Dieter Hofrichter’s blunted, spurless Carnas typeface maximizes its counter-forms by pushing its strokes outward, each character forming a straight-sided or superelliptical structure. The face treats the passing eye to a subtle diagonal jostling as tensioned upper-right and lower-left curves create radial symmetry.

grapes
fiddlesticks
What is the sound of shit happening?

Vialog is a large and versatile sans serif family consisting of four weights of roman with corresponding italics, each with small caps and Old style Figures, released by Linotype in 2002. Designers Werner Schneider and Helmut Ness based the concept for Vialog on the forms in "Euro Type," an unpublished type designed by Schneider in 1988 for the German Federal Transportation Ministry. For... Read More

always
bureaucratic
Stop, I do not eat junk mail

FF ThreeSix is a vast optical type system consisting of six variants across eight weights, including four additional monospaced weights. It is the result of London-based Paul McNeil’s and Hamish Muir’s experiments in working within the restrictive rules of geometry to generate simple typographic forms. A wide range of almost imperceptible optical corrections are used to create the illusion of... Read More

grapes
ultraviolets
Living to fry the beef rice

When ITC Officina was first released in 1990, as a paired family of serif and sans serif faces in two weights with italics, it was intended as a workhorse typeface for business correspondence. But the typeface proved popular in many more areas than correspondence. Erik Spiekermann, ITC Officina's designer: "Once ITC Officina got picked up by the trendsetters to denote 'coolness,' it had lost... Read More

jungle
conceptional
Keep table cleaned after dying

The family that became FF Meta was first called PT55, an economical typeface made for easy reading at small sizes created for the West German Post Office in 1985. Erik Spiekermann later improved and expanded his design to include more weights and styles, and prepared its release as FF Meta, one of the first and truly foundational members of the early FontFont library. As desktop publishing... Read More

jungle
zygapophysis
Please present your octopus

When Christian Schwartz and Erik Spiekermann were working on FF Meta Serif, they had plans to also expand the FF Unit family (a closely related design) to include FF Unit Slab. They figured that it would be nice to create a serif and slab that could be used together, as well as with their own sans counterparts. While FF Meta Serif featured a more classical structure, FF Unit Slab was shaping up... Read More

jungle
ultraviolets
Slippery chicken hot pot young

Rounded typefaces go in and out of style. They are often used for user interfaces, or for back-lit signage. Sharp type often looks blunt in these situations, and the amount of bluntness is unpredictable. The solution: start by rounding the corners. FF Unit Rounded began as an exclusive customization of FF Unit. Something friendly and precise to be read on screen, on signs, in print, and a broad... Read More

Albert-Jan Pool
FontFont 1995
Akira Kobayashi
Linotype 2011
Akira Kobayashi
Linotype 2011
Akira Kobayashi, Aldo Novarese, Linotype Design Studio and Terrance Weinzierl
Linotype 2008
MetaDesign
FontFont 1997
Jakob Runge
FontFont 2014
Dieter Hofrichter
Hoftype
Werner Schneider and Helmut Ness
Linotype 2002
Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir
FontFont 2012
Erik Spiekermann and Ole Schäfer
ITC 1990
Erik Spiekermann, Oded Ezer and Akaki Razmadze
FontFont 1991
Erik Spiekermann, Christian Schwartz and Kris Sowersby
FontFont 2009
Erik Spiekermann and Christian Schwartz
FontFont 2008