Historical typeface design
Greetings,
I leave this Saturday to teach a class at Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic and need to give a lecture on typeface design that has based its aesthetics on a historical revision and/or aesthetic.
Does anyone have a really nice typeface they've developed based on a these criteria? If so, would you be willing to lend me samples and process so i can present it? Of course, the designer(s) would get full credit.
20.Jul.2004 1.05pm
You mean a revival? There's tons of them, but maybe the best one for you is this:
http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/29/34990.html
hhp
20.Jul.2004 1.48pm
Yes, yes beautiful! I will contact the designers.
Pablo
21.Jul.2004 7.10am
<em>I leave this Saturday to teach a class at Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic</em>
Lucky you
2.Aug.2004 4.22am
I think Renard is a good example, not only because of its achievements but also because you can read in two books "Type Now" and "counterpunch" the author approach to revivals.
I would consider also the Dutch Type Library (www.dtl.nl) revivals because they were made according with a serious criteria and whether you agree or not with it F. Blokland can explain it and ussualy he is avalilable in typophile forums.
Regards.
Ramiro.
2.Aug.2004 7.23am
I don't think being serious makes a font a "revival".
Or at least don't tell Unger his fonts are revivals...
hhp
3.Aug.2004 5.35am
>>'being serious makes a font a "revival".
Well, in any way I said that. What I mean is that is better to consider serious revivals made by people that worked on it with a criteria they can explain in detail.
There are many approaches to visit an historical design and is good to have these ideas written and available, specially for academic purposes.
3.Aug.2004 10.26am
Pablo something you could/should/might include in your lecture is John Downer's essay, "Call it what it is", which was written in conjunction with Frank Heine's Tribute for Emigre.
http://www.emigre.com/EFoITrbF.php