Typography
◯ is a supercut of all round counters found in Unicode typefaces. Composed first in the summer of 2011 and updated for this 2013 publication, ◯ presents these counters at 60pts and in Unicode order. The text begins with Basic Latin (0025), contains findings in the Private Use Area, and ends in the Variation Sectors Supp. Section (1F773).
Based on 150 characters contained within a single phrase, Alexander May has transcribed each character onto linoleum engravings to create a set of unique prints for each letter and stretching this text across the bound parameters of a onestar press book. By the artist’s hand, this investigation focuses upon the economy of the printed page—the space and value of content—expanding past the limitations of a single phrase upon the page.
One day I found a tumblr called Kim Jong Il Looking At Things. I could not stop looking at Kim Jong Il looking at things. He looked so religiously detached from every thing he looked at. It was like he was not in his body while looking at bras, candy, sky, whatever. When he smiled or did not smile the expression felt the same: empty. Was the Dear Leader enlightened? He seemed honest looking at things, whatever it was, and other times he seemed delighted and bored. I don’t know why but it’s intriguing to see him looking at things ...
Dear writer,
A Queer Year of Love Letters is a series of fonts that remembers the lives and work of countercultural queers of the past several decades. The series aims to make the act of remembering these overlooked and illegitimate histories accessible to other people, as easy as typing. Better yet: it aims to make the act of typing an act of remembering. That these fonts might be considered typefaces is incidental. They are an attempt to improvise a clandestine lineage, an aspatial and atemporal kind of queer kinship, through the act of writing.
I began making these fonts in order to ...
Afronik N’ko font is a display font supporting only the N’ko alphabet used to write Manding languages of West Africa.
Souleymane Kanté created the N’Ko (ߒߞߏ – N’Ko) alphabet in 1949 to suit the sounds of the Mande languages — including Mandika, Dyula, Bambara and related languages.Neither the Latin nor the Arabic characters have enough breadth to encompass the nuances of African speech. Both writing systems lack symbols for some of the phonology, in particular the subtle but distinct tonalities. When transcribed with the foreign scripts, which have no adequate way of marking precise vowel tones, the meanings of words can ...
Air the Trees
by
Larry Eigner
the disappearance of matter
where is the
end of the poem
tired eyes
the sun travels
...
ALVARADO
Alvarado is an open-source variable typeface based on vernacular signage found on the namesake street, specifically on the stretch through the Westlake and Pico-Union neighborhoods of Los Angeles which are among the highest population density in the USA: http://primary-foundry.com/typefaces/alvarado/
LICENSE
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied above, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
AUTHORS
Alvarado has been designed by Hector Torres (astudionameddesire.com) and published by Primary Foundry (primary-foundry.com)
DESIGN
Alvarado was created by Hector Torres using Glyphs and the Dinamo Font Gauntlet (fontgauntlet.com)
The component parts included here—four animated GIFs and an SWF—are not to be understood as independent works, but are to be combined in a browser to produce Ana Maria Uribe’s 1997 poem “Angeles en bandana (A Flock of Angels).” The poem arranges fifteen Garamond “T” characters in the form of an upside down triangle and animates them with out-of-sync bevels and inner glows. While this animation loops, so does a short piece of metallic-sounding audio titled “humhum.swf.” This and other Uribe anipoems are online thanks to Vispo.
This title was included in Library Stack as part of the collection Open Font ...
Arena is an open-source typeface inspired by Architype Bayer, Are.na, and heat transfer letterforms and numerals used for athletic kits.
Arena has 136 glyphs with basic Latin characters, lining figures, alternates, ligatures, punctuation, and symbols.
License includes two styles, Normal and Round, with Desktop (OTF), and Web (WOFF) font formats for Print, Web, App, and Broadcast use.
Open Font License allows the font to be used, modified, and redistributed.
Typeface designed by Jonathan Maghen.
Becca Abbe is a designer based in New York whose practice Cdxs, LLC focuses on typesetting, branding, programming, print, and digital.
BIG AND USELESS and NOW are two projects based on the Inline Futura typeface drawn by Weiyi Li in 2011.
This title was included in Library Stack as part of the collection Open Font License, by Bryce Wilner.
