Type designers are not just concerned with the elements of good design. Influence is also sought in the vernacular and every day culture that surrounds. Every once and a while a particular style or movement will affect a designer and a new direction for type is marked.
Type with Personality
Many innovations in type come from physical objects in the immediate environment that have cultural significance and thus a wider appeal. The function of these fonts is through association with industry, organisations or through nostalgia, remembering a time when something was really happening in peoples’ lives. The fonts below are just some of the novelty groups, most will be available as ‘open source’ and as free fonts for individual download.
Crud fonts – these fonts have irregular physical characteristics, often featuring serif style heading weight fonts that are deteriorating, or a letterpress style that has only partly adhered to the substrata. These fonts could typically be used where the expression of character, or a font with a well lived feel is appropriate. An example of this style of font is Distractor.
LED fonts – these fonts are characterized by the simplified grid of eight bars. Inspired by electronic devices, the 1980’s and bombs. A popular font in this category is 7 LED.
Stencil fonts – these fonts are usually created in slab-serifs with a high contrast in line weights within the letterforms, featuring a gap which originally functioned to hold the stencil together. They generally add an industrial, hand-made feel to a project that is utilitarian in nature. A popular font in this category is Boston Traffic.
Tape type – these fonts are designed to imitate sticky tape. They is no curvature of the letterforms and the patterns created are irregular in shape. They have a handcrafted, childlike appeal well suited to inverted colour schemes, white on black etc. A popular font in this category is Scotch Taped. To get more information visit #www.actionfonts.com.
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