Category: Typography
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More uncial typefaces!
In November, I published a list of uncial typefaces here, most of which were available at Linotype.com. In the months that followed, many more uncials were added to Linotype’s webshop; most of these designs came from ITC or Monotype. Below are samples and descriptions of these uncials… Abbot Uncial is an exciting, hearty, and almost…
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Awesome readers, keep buying Mountain!
Yesterday I received my quarterly report from Volcano Type in Karlsruhe. Volcano is a great, independent type foundry from the same award-wining design team behind Slanted, a German-language design blog and magazine. Last year, as part of the Bastard Project, I released a tiny display family via their label, Mountain. Learn more about Mountain here…
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Morris Sans, first responses
Almost two years have past since I began working on Morris Sans. A side project that began shortly after TypoTechnica 2005, the six-part typeface family was finally released via Linotype’s webshop on Thursday. Here are some of the responses that I’ve received online over the past few days. Jürgen Siebert, FontBlog Chris Lozos, on Typophile…
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Morris Sans released
From the Linotype website: Morris Sans™ is a newly revised and extended version of a small geometric family of typefaces originally produced by Morris Fuller Benton in 1930 for ATF. His initial design consisted of an alphabet of squared capital letters with a unique twist that characterized its appearance: corners with rounded exteriors and right-angle…
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Very condensed serif sketch
Back in May, a Romanian designer posted a Type ID query on Typophile for a series of beautiful condensed and serifed letterforms from the 1950s. The letterforms seem to have been hand-drawn, and I fell in love with them immediately. The samples provided were just all caps, so I fleshed out digital outlines for a…
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Gaelic and/or Uncial Fonts
Month after month, the number one search term that brings visitors to this site is “gaelic font.” Readers may end up on TypeOff. because of Pater Noster, a type design shown further down in this article. I don’t know what people are looking for when they type “gaelic font” into Google. Are they looking for…
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Some Letters in Cologne
Last week, I was in Cologne (or Köln), and I felt the need to take a lot of pictures. I’ve been to Cologne about a dozen times over the past five years, but I rarely have found the time to photograph much of anything. Cologne has a rich history, going back two thousand years, and…
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No, It Isn’t…
This picture to the left may be the most delightful typographic oxymoron I’ve yet to encounter. A sign for an art gallery in Cologne, which seems to be called “Antiqua,” its text is set in Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch. I like to see this sign as one sort of big inside joke; a gift to all…
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New Page for Blackletter Resources
Recently, I’ve received several requests from visitors asking for good resources on- and offline regarding learning more about blackletter type. After typing out the same bits of information multiple times, I decided to build a static page here on TypeOff. that I could just link to in the future. So, if you are looking for…
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Carved Blackletters from Strasbourg
On a recent visit to Strasbourg, I made several photographs of carved blackletter inscriptions from the city’s cathedral. Strasbourg is the capital of Alsace, in the Alsace–Lorraine region of France. Almost directly across the Rhine from present-day Germany, Strasbourg and the surrounding territories were diputed for centuries, passing hands between the French and German states…
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Writing Lessons from the Koch Book
Das Schreiben als Kunstfertigkeit About a year and a half ago, I purchased a copy of Das Schreiben als Kunstfertigkeit online. A German book on calligraphy, perhaps the German book on calligraphy, DSaKf (an acronym I just made up…) was written by Rudolf Koch during the early 1920s. The book’s title could be roughly translated…
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Berthold Wolpe Exhibit, Part 2
On Thursday, September 7, I visited the opening of the Berthold Wolpe exhibition at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. In another post last week, I touched briefly on Berthold Wolpe’s career, as well as the digital version of his Albertus typeface. This article covers the Mainz exhibition more directly. The opening began with an introductory…
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New P22 Blackletters
P22 has recently brought two Blackletter fonts onto the market – or three, if you add P22 Declaration, which was released on the Fourth of July. All of these typefaces are of the handwriting variety. It is no secret that script typefaces are among the most popular fonts at the moment. Blackletter styles have been…
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Alois Numbers
As of this writing, there are a number of projects sitting on my hard drive that I’ve meant to upload here for about a year. In 2005, while still studying in Offenbach, I was in a type design course entitled Zeichen zeichnen. We drew numbers. My numbers-only font was inspired by a gravestone I photographed…
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