Dots, Squares, Bits’n’Pieces

Lomo, PLC is a Russian optical manufacturer, whose cameras have built up an international cult following since 1992. Swiss designer Fidel Peugeot recently tapped into this phenomenon, creating an astounding series of pixel fonts for use in a variety of applications-from websites to mobile phone displays. Now available as a single family from Linotype, Lomo's versatility extends itself across 37... Read More

FF Beadmap began life as a bit of fun with plastic Hama Beads from Denmark. Ian Wright’s children received a set for Christmas, and so he started making little heads with them, as well as type pictures based on embroidered samplers. Wright sent David Crow one of these for a wedding present. Crow liked the idea of making this into a workable font, and so he digitized it.

For their work in communications advertising, the design trio of Maik Ignaszak, Stefan Kisters, and Astrid Koenig was in constant need of display fonts that looked like type seen on phone menus from Motorola, Nokia, Siemens, etc. Since desktop-installable versions of these fonts weren’t commercially available, these designers made their own. The result is FF Call, a package of fonts frozen in... Read More

Alan Birch created the LCD font in 1981. Its name is an abbreviation of the words "Liquid Crystal Display," the display technology used in digital watches and clocks the world over. LCD is a great choice when a futuristic, high-tech look is desired.

The figures of Quartz font are based on those on digital clocks and LCD displays. All strokes are set at right angles to one another to create abstract characters. Fonts created for electronic displays gained in popularity at the same time as the computer became an everyday object. The standard is still around today and is the model for numerous interpretations. Fonts like Quartz have... Read More

Based on a modular system, FF Ticket recreates the look of thermal printer type as found on tickets, itineraries, luggage tags, forms, etc.

FF Pop is Neville Brody at his most minimalist. Built on a basic grid of horizontal and vertical lines, FF Pop comes in a monoline and a dotted LED version.

“Typography is what brought me to graphic design,” says FF Karo designer Martin L’Allier. “I played with typefaces before exploring the world of images.” In an introductory type design course offered during his second year of college, he designed the first version of FF Karo (then called Wisigoth and Ostrogoth). A quote from Matthew Carter was the inspiration for L’Allier’s project: “Black... Read More

First used in the books on (and by) the German techno scene, and techno design specifically, FF Localizer is at the same time a nostalgic 70s and a 90s typeface. Along the lines of “we thought this would be the future, then it wasn’t, but it didn’t matter after all, so here it is”. The additional FF Bionic and FF Chemo families (originally released as FF Localizer Clones) are Critzla's personal... Read More

FF Nelio is a response to the original mobile phone culture. Bitmaps and pixels served messages in new high tech ways. But technology is to make people’s life cozy, so let’s have a cozy bitmap script font with a nostalgic touch of towel monograms.