Type Design
July 11th 2008 08:43
My son alerted me the other day to a blog post about type designers, including one New Zealander, Kris Sowersby. The article itself is worth checking out, if only for the great type faces or fonts that are on display.
But I went to Kris’s site as well. There, under Retail typefaces are four styles: Newzald, National, FF Meta Serif, and Feijoa. I can’t reproduce them here, unfortunately, because I can‘t transfer the fonts to this site. So go to the site itself and take a look.
Next in line are the custom typefaces, that is fonts made for particular customers. Hardys, Hokotohu, Victoria Sans and Serif, NZ Rugby Chisel (ain’t that a name!), Rewards and Eliza. Hardys was made for Constellation Wines in Australia; Hokotohu was made for the Hokotohu Moriori Trust (Moriori as opposed to Maori. The Moriori were an earlier people in NZ, and seem to have been pretty much wiped out).
Victoria Sans and Serif is a collection of twelve typefaces made for Victoria University, in Wellington, NZ. NZ Rugby Chisel is a solid typeface made to celebrate the All Blacks. (I like the title, although the font itself isn’t my favourite - I prefer Fejoia.) Rewards was designed for American Express and Eliza, a faux thirties style, for the top fashion outlet, Elizabeth Horne.
Just listing them doesn’t give you any idea of what they’re like. Go check them out. And don’t forget to look at the link under the first menu: Why type?
Just a curiosity from the past in regard to fonts from Sally Everding, in 1994: As no one ever has enough memory, users should be aware of how much RAM fonts and ATM command: ATM uses about 500K and the 14 fonts add another 100 K.
Who would ever consider the amount of ram fonts would take anymore?
But I went to Kris’s site as well. There, under Retail typefaces are four styles: Newzald, National, FF Meta Serif, and Feijoa. I can’t reproduce them here, unfortunately, because I can‘t transfer the fonts to this site. So go to the site itself and take a look.
Next in line are the custom typefaces, that is fonts made for particular customers. Hardys, Hokotohu, Victoria Sans and Serif, NZ Rugby Chisel (ain’t that a name!), Rewards and Eliza. Hardys was made for Constellation Wines in Australia; Hokotohu was made for the Hokotohu Moriori Trust (Moriori as opposed to Maori. The Moriori were an earlier people in NZ, and seem to have been pretty much wiped out).
Victoria Sans and Serif is a collection of twelve typefaces made for Victoria University, in Wellington, NZ. NZ Rugby Chisel is a solid typeface made to celebrate the All Blacks. (I like the title, although the font itself isn’t my favourite - I prefer Fejoia.) Rewards was designed for American Express and Eliza, a faux thirties style, for the top fashion outlet, Elizabeth Horne.
Just listing them doesn’t give you any idea of what they’re like. Go check them out. And don’t forget to look at the link under the first menu: Why type?
Just a curiosity from the past in regard to fonts from Sally Everding, in 1994: As no one ever has enough memory, users should be aware of how much RAM fonts and ATM command: ATM uses about 500K and the 14 fonts add another 100 K.
Who would ever consider the amount of ram fonts would take anymore?
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