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Backspace Round Info
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Backspacer Package $59
By Nancy Mazzei
The designer found an old typewriter in an abandoned lot in Brooklyn. She kept it for two years, and one day and then decided that it was time to move. She planned to throw it away, but it was so beautiful that we wanted to keep something about it. ‘The keys!’ she thought. So she kept the keys in a brown bag until the day when they met a camera and ‘fell in love,’ as they say. |
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Big Cheese Info |
Big Cheese 126 Illustrations $59
Big Cheese Dark A
Most clip art packages are really straight. The designer wanted to create things that had implied levels of meaning but didn't have any real meaning. You would read meaning into it, and hopefully through usage they will start to have a meaning |
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Democratica Info |
Democratica Package $65
By Miles Newlyn 1991
Democratica is a synthesis of the connections the designer saw between the crude struggle for democracy in the former USSR and the crudeness of the many recent modular typeface designs. He tried to conceive the individual letters as people who wanted the same so called freedom of others but which was in actual fact just another set of rules. People were designing so many modular typefaces that it made him mad. The cut, copy & paste ethic of the Mac was often producing typefaces that were so unsympathetic to the Roman framework that what they emulated seemed more akin in method to the gothic style of regulated textural pen strokes that preceded the humanistic trends of the Renaissance. |
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MrsEaves Info |
Mrs Eaves OpenType $299.00
By Zuzana Licko
In this designers rendition of this classic typeface, she has addressed the highly criticized feature of sharp contrast. This assimilats as a highly legible text face, and in fact, the high contrast between stems and hairlines became quite desirable, as is apparent in typefaces such as Bodoni. Ultimately, it may have been merely the fascination of meeting these technical challenges that made this pursuit so desirable at the time, and its proliferation in our era is merely a perpetuation that remains largely unquestioned. This typeface is named after Sarah Eaves, the woman who became John Baskerville's wife. |
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JournalText Info |
Designed by Zuzana Licko in 1990
Journal Text Package $95
This font was designed to be an uncommon revival. Rather than resurrecting a particular typeface from letterpress specimens, Journal is a revival of the letterpress look itself. She simulated the irregularities that appear in letterpress printing are simulated; for example all curves are defined with straight lines. This yields a subtle crudeness that is apparent in laserwriter printouts as well as high resolution typesetting. Journal also evokes the informal qualities of familiar typewriter designs, making it suitable for correspondence |
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