Felt Tip Roman was created by Mark Simonson. He started working on this typeface in 1989 and published it in 1992, which was the first typeface he released. Mark Simonson had started out as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1976, later in 2000, he founded his studio specializing in lettering and typography. The Felt…
Restore, released in 2010 by Typodermic Fonts Inc., is a twentieth century inspired German typeface. It was designed by Ray Larabie, a Canadian designer of TrueType and OpenType computer fonts. Restore is known for its’ tight letter spacing and letter combination. For example, ST and SR both are intended to interlock or connect. In the…
This font is Droid Sans Mono, and it was designed by Steve Matteson in 2009. The Droid font family was first designed in 2007. Steve Matteson worked for Ascender Corporation when the font was released. It was created for the Open Handset Alliance platform which is a business alliance of major companies to work towards…
Tenby was a font created by Jan Schmoeger in 2007. Mr. Schmoeger was born in Prague, Czech Republic. He began working at a book publishing firm, but soon moved to Australia to become a freelance designer. Currently, in order to get some relief from designing, Jan teaches at an Art & design school in Melbourne.…
The font, Mrs Eaves, was designed in 1996 by Zuzana Lick, a graphic designer from Czechoslovakia. I initially found this interesting as a large part of my family is from this part of Europe as well! Lick designed Mrs Eaves as an original attempt at a traditional typeface. The font has been described, at times,…
DIN 2014 is a sans-serif typeface in the “grotesque” or industrial style and was designed by Paratype in 2014. DIN is an acronym for Deutsches Institut fur Normung (German Industrial Standard). This contemporary design is based on a revival of the DIN 1451 typeface, which was designed in 1931 originally for industrial uses. This new…
Blenny was designed by Dalton Maag. Dalton Maag is a typeface design studio that was founded in 1991. The main designer of blenny was Spike Spondike of Dalton Maag, however, they have no official time range or data of when Blenny was created or published for use. Blenny is thought to be a typeface that…
This general font was designed by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan in 1974. It was designed to mimic typewriters. The difference between this typewriter font and normal typewriters is that the letters don’t share the same width and it is easier to read. The font was widely used between the 1980s and 1980s. The…
The font that I chose was Basic Sans, by Latinotype. Latintype is a Chilean font design company founded by Luciano Vergara, Daniel Hernández and Miguel Hernández. This font fits my personality in many ways. First, the name. I choose the thin version because I am thin. I am also basic. A sans-serif font says that…
Proxima Nova is a typeface created by American graphic designer, Mark Simonson, and is described as a mix between “typefaces like Futura and Akzidenz Grotesk” (marksimonson.com). The typeface was originally released by Simonson in 1994 under its discontinued name “Proxima Sans”, but was later iterated upon to eventually include 48 total fonts in the family…
Blenny, designed by Spike Spondike from the typeface design studio Dalton Maag, was created in the year 2014. It is characterized by its bold and curvaceous design, which gives a a rather retro feel. The thick dark lines gives the font a strong presence. However, the font also gives off a friendly and stylish appearance…
Como was designed by a Japanese designer named Ryoichi Tsunekawa in June 2006. Como is in the modern rounded sans-serif family; its letter form is designed geometrically, and their ends is rounded out. The overall form of this font gives it universality, neutrality and sense of unity for the use in all media, and all…
Fāng Zhèng Kǎi Tǐ originated from the “Chinese Standard Kaiti” from Shanghai Institute of Printing Technology. The first Chinese Standard Kaiti was created in the 1940s. KaiTi was mainly used due to the founding of the People’s Republic of China was in a woodblock printing version. Several iterations were done by Shanghai Font Factory to…
This font is called Homemade Apple Pro and it was designed by Stuart Sandler in 2010. Sandler launched a site called Font Diner where designers can search and be inspired by fonts influenced by popular culture in the 1950s. This font comes from Font Diner where Sandler has created over 1,200 original typefaces. I chose…
This font, Reenie Beanie, is a playful, loose look created by the talented James Grieshaber. It is based on handwriting, more particularly a ball-point pen look. It is a font that can be used for more casual messages. One piece of information that I enjoyed is that with a little imagination, this font can be…