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Some more details on the upcoming David Jury book about 20th c. type designers:
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-type-designer-see-stars/
My role in Momochidori was designing the Latin part, which now has been released as “Chidori”. There’s a bit more flexibility in drawing the Latin (since I don’t have to deal with heavy ideographs), so the axes are more extreme. In Chidori, it’s possible to go heavier, lighter, and tighter. The variable axes makes the family fun to use – I enjoyed making these samples, in which I reproduced signs seen in my surroundings.
I’ve sat on a revival of a relatively obscure typeface for years, feeling I didn’t yet know enough about the original designer or context. A very close revival was released—presented as an original work, with no visible citation of the source.
It’s left me thinking about how territorial the type community can be, shown both in the omission of source material (implicitly claiming another designer’s work), and, admittedly, in my own frustration at seeing it released.
Cite your sources!
There’s really no excuse for offering revivals of typefaces without mention of source material (leaving aside any due diligence in contacting the original designer/estate), but this has become a sort of Instagram standard.
I can’t understand how you can soak in gobs of 🔥😍👏 knowing that you’re deceiving your followers.
One such designer told me they didn’t think IG was the right place for descriptions. And yet their website has no info and they sell directly in an IG shop 🤔.
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@db It is very much just landing page at the moment 😅
Databases will be linked together (so you can utilize foundry licensing info to filter typefaces), but it’ll be on a separate domain:
I am much better at documenting and leaving breadcrumbs now, but when I was younger I must have severely underestimated how easy it is to forget things about a project when you turn your attention away from it for as little as a few months. The total offload from working memory.
(Yes, I am subtooting my former self’s code commenting skills.)
Traveling to Bucharest this weekend. I've been kindly invited by Local Design Circle team to present a part from my research dissertation at MATD Reading.
Will be happy to share some forgotten history facts and thoughts on this topic, this Saturday.
Frank Grießhammer
Ryan Bugden
Typographica
Morning Type
Anna Vasina