Monotype Fonts | Visuals
Here is a small extract of visuals i've made for Monotype Company. They have contacted me in order to create artwork for their type library, and to highlight some of their typefaces such as Balega, Peignot, Forbes, Onyx, Staccato 555, Swiss 721, Airam, Neue Kabel...
A.M. Cassandre’s original and trend setting stressed sanserif which mixes capital and lowercase forms. Designed in 1937 with Charles Peignot for Deberny & Peignot, this face has almost become a symbol for France and things French.
Gerry Powell, typographer, industrial designer, and director of typographic design for American Type Founders, designed Onyx font for ATF in 1937.
A very popular advertising type in the 1940s, Onyx resembles an extremely condensed, bold member of the Bodoni family.
Onyx is a good display font, with proportions that make it readable even when space is at a premium.
A very popular advertising type in the 1940s, Onyx resembles an extremely condensed, bold member of the Bodoni family.
Onyx is a good display font, with proportions that make it readable even when space is at a premium.
Another of Excoffon's brilliant combinations of opposing elements, creating a tense and energetic script.
Forbes consists of one bold weight and is an alphabet in the style of the bold English slab serifs, as made evident by its flexed serifs. This style first made its appearance in the 19th century. It was used at first only on posters but later became available in smaller point sizes and was then be used for titling and headlines. With its robust figures, Forbes should be used exclusively for these applications in middle and large point sizes.
What if a typeface could make a sound? German designer Jürgen Weltin says his Balega™ would ring with the “the fat sound of a Jimi Hendrix guitar.” The personality-rich, stencil-like display face is what he calls a “cover version” of another typeface, Resolut, from the Italian foundry Nebiolo. “[Balega] was purely a ‘creative exercise,’” says Weltin. “Given the aesthetic quality of Resolut, it surprised me that it had never been picked up by the filmsetting era or the digital age. So, I tried to honor it with my cover version.” He explains further: “I did not simply digitize the original design. Instead, I traced them freely on the monitor while looking at a 22-point picture of Resolut in an old font sample book. Several letters were missing from this design. I improvised them and a few other characters. Balega is a little narrower and has a smaller slope. It’s a reinterpretation, maybe similar to what the Swiss guitarist Christy Doran did with Hendrix in 1994.”
Weltin discovered Resolut by accident and found himself hopelessly beguiled by the contrast of its curves against its sharp edges. It was 2003, and he was then in the middle of designing the very ambitious, 33-style Agilita Pro® font family. But when Resolut spoke to him, he welcomed a diversion from intensive focus on Agilita’s many narrow forms. “I found the fragmented nature of the dynamic curves extremely interesting, how the letters are divided into individual elements so that the whole thing resembles stencil lettering, although their principles function somewhat differently,” he said. To procrastinate from completing one typeface? Well, Weltin created another—Balega. If Weltin’s Agilita Pro, released in 2006, is like an elaborate full-course meal, Balega is like a hearty snack. He says, “I’m not ascetic, and the thought of developing a font with only one style was something not to be scoffed at.” Balega’s letters are very friendly and bold and have a slight italic slant that propel it ever-forward, not at all unlike a rock and roll song from the ’70s.
The Neue Kabel® typeface family, from Marc Schütz, takes the original 1927 Rudolf Koch design and redesigned it for the 21st century. Neue Kabel maintains the rhythm and proportions of Koch's design, and adds to this the consistent design traits and family structure of a 21st century design. Text copy set in Neue Kabel echoes the elegance and playfulness of Koch's design, while delivering the versatility to excel in a wide variety of print and digital environments
