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I found this web site today, from the Friends of St Bride email. It is done by a graduate of the University of Reading, Ben Weiner. The site is curiously similar to mine, in both content and design. There are a couple of interesting articles on type design, and one on hypertext. He has designed a number of interesting typefaces, including one called Puritan, a (another) humanist sans and it was, I quote, “influenced by Scala sans, The Sans, Syntax and Pragma”. It’s a very nice type overall, with some interesting quirks in it. The ‘afterthoughts’ PDF is very nicely designed, presenting the design process. The most unbelivable thing is that almost all of his fonts can be downloaded for free! Only Puritan is available in Mac TrueType format though.
2/13/2003 02:29:00 AM (0) comments My friend Nathalie Dumont’s boyfriend Martin found this curious type called Tschichold, obviously designed by Tschichold. To my surprise, it is a humanist sanserif, rather contradictory to his irreverence towards humanist sans in his The new typography. Myfonts.com says: “Jan Tschichold has been very influenced by Gill Sans (1928) for this humanistic sans serif drawn in 1933/36 for Uhertype.” Well, that’s pretty obvious. It is in fact extremely close to Gill Sans – too close. Martin says it was inspired by Paul Renner’s work too. I really can’t understand why he likes it so much... oh well.2/10/2003 05:13:00 AM (0) comments Powered by Blogger
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