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Order a grip of specimens.
$3/ea!
#typedesign #emigrefonts #inspiration #typography #RudyVanderLans #ZuzanaLicko
TypographicaFollowing a clear lineage from her Lo-Res to Modula to Program, Zuzana Licko’s newest design is the perfect marriage of her past experiments with variable technology: https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Modulator #ZuzanaLicko #EmigreFonts #Fonts #TypeDesign
Letterform ArchiveUntil about 1994, most Emigre fonts were sold on floppy disks. (Later, they were provided on CDs.) Orders for fonts were placed by phone or fax, and disks were sent out by FedEx or UPS.
Go behind the scenes with Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans in our interview on the history of Emigre Fonts: https://letterformarchive.org/news/emigre-fonts-interview/?utm_source=Mastodon
#EarlyDigital #Fonts #Typography #EmigreFonts #LetterformArchive #1990s
Did you collect all Emigre’s specimens over the last four decades? Now you can get 40 booklets in a single 1,264-page volume. “Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024” is available now in our shop, and wherever good books are sold. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/emigre-fonts/?utm_source=Mastodon
#Emigre #EmigreFonts #TypeSpecimen #Font #Typography #Typeface #ZuzanaLicko #RudyVanderLans #Ad
We are honored to publish Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024, a compendium of specimens spanning forty years of type innovation from the legendary Bay Area foundry. Preview a selection from the book’s 1,200+ pages—and read a foreword from Associate Curator Stephen Coles on the importance of the Emigre archive to the mission of Letterform Archive: https://letterformarchive.org/news/inside-emigre-fonts-type-specimens-1986-2024/?utm_source=Mastodon
#Emigre #EmigreFonts #TypeDesign #LetterformArchive #Typography #Fonts
“When Emigre donated its comprehensive archive to @letterformarchive in 2016, one of the issues that came up was how to best preserve Zuzana Licko’s type design process. This was a challenge, because Zuzana rarely made sketches for her fonts. … Now, thanks to the expertise and ingenuity of @frankrolf, using a variety of tools, including @drawBot … get a peek behind the scenes of the early stages of iconic digital typefaces.” https://www.emigre.com/DigitalFontSketches
Emigre: Digital Font Sketches
Zuzana Licko's unique type design process involved minimal sketching, relying instead on direct digital exploration starting from the era of bitmap fonts in 1984. Her work primarily took place on the computer, with printouts serving as visual aids and records of progress and changes. Despite challenges in preserving early digital drafts due to evolving technology, contemporary efforts by type designer Frank Grießhammer have successfully recreated and saved Licko's original digital sketches into PDF format, capturing the essence of her innovative design approach.
Zuzana Licko (typeface design) and Rudy VanderLans (booklet design), Hypnopædia specimen, Emigre Fonts, Berkeley, 1997. #emigre #emigrefonts
