#type designers

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Typography Tuesday

Meisterbuch der Schrift is German-Swiss book and type designer Jan Tschichold's 1952 textbook on historical and contemporary type design published in Ravensburg, Germany by Otto Maier Verlag. From top to bottom:

Type samples from early 19th-century English fashion publications.

Playbill from Stephenson Blake & Co., Sheffield, England.

Futura by German designer Paul Renner, 1927.

Futura Light, also by Renner.

Two sets of capitals by Emil Rudolf Weiss for the Bauer Type Foundry.

A shadowed Weiss Gothic by Emil Rudolf Weiss.

Michelangelo by Hermann Zapf for the Stempel Type Foundry, 1950.

Sistina by Hermann Zapf, also for Stempel, 1951.

Graphique by Hermann Eidenbenz for the Haas Type Foundry, 1945.

Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) was one of the most noted type and book designers of the 20th century. He is remembered most for his two-year stint with Penguin Books (1947-1949), during which he established Penguin’s characteristic design identity, and for his typefaces Transit (1931), Saskia (1931/1932), Zeus (1931) and Sabon (1966/1967).

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[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

one of the best character types i think is insane man in a long fur coat

[starrysharks]

friendship is magic

closeups:

[bigfatbreak]

Just curious: for that Viceroy AU, is there a possibility of Mayura making an appearance?

(part one.)

[onebadnoodle]

poison type miku ⚠️

[time-woods]

someone asked for my interpretations of the characters prismo and scarab wouldve made at the end of fionna and cake,

so here we have Sīdus the Fallen star and The Carmine Cavalier (also regarded as Carma (like karma))

im proud of scarabs character name simply cause cavalier used as an adjective can mean someone who doesnt care for others. also really proud of his sickle thing- its like the mandibles of a beetle but it acts like a guiding weapon rather than attacking, so he can just hook people and completely displace their movements but it can also be used for punching like brass knuckles

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Tobias Frere Jones

Tobias Frere Jones is an American typeface designer who is most popular for having designed Gotham, the typeface Obama used for his ‘Hope’ campaign during the 2008 presidential election. Tobias is known to design large families of fonts, with many variations and options to choose from and with a large number of glyphs. Below are some examples of his work:

Gotham:

Mallory:

[chloesimaginationthings]

I love gyaru Pokémon trainer Miku

[malacandrax]

'My star'

Anon request - Astarion is a fallen star come to earth, hunted for his beauty and rarity. But he meets the Bear Knight - Halsin of the Grove who protects him and the two fall in love 🐻⭐️.

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Typography Tuesday

OSWALD BRUCE COOPER

Almost every printing shop has at least one of the ubiquitous Cooper typeface families, a standard of the type cabinet, but few know the personality behind them, Oswald Bruce Cooper (1879-1949), known to those who worked with him as "Oz." Cooper designed about fifteen major typefaces, mostly for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler and American Type Founders, that inspired many knockoffs and redesigns.

His own obscurity is mostly due to his intensely private and introverted personality, but he was much beloved by those who worked with him, and when he died of cancer in 1949, his colleagues produced this festschrift in his honor, The Book of Oz Cooper, An Appreciation of Oswald Bruce Cooper, published in Chicago by the Society of Typographic Arts in 1949. It includes an unfinished autobiography, supplemented by his wife Mary Lou Foster; several memorial essays by his colleagues and friends, including Frederic Goudy and W. A. Dwiggins; and several essays on his typefaces. The preface notes:

The book is the work of men who knew him, worked with him, understood his strength, and his character, and loved him. They take pride in paying him this tribute. He lives in our hearts and memories; may this book bring him to others who could not meet and know him in his life on this earth.

Our copy is another donation from the estate of our late friend, Dennis Bayuzick.

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you'll never guess which movie i finally watched after 2 years of being lazy

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Ok, while we are on the topic of Malevolent, I decided to post some mlvlnt thingies I drew last year

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[Text ID: THE WORLD WILL ALWAYS NEED MORE TRANSSEXUALS. THERE IS ROOM ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE. THAT INCLUDES YOU! /End ID]

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Mercy waiting for me to give him any sort of story that doesn’t involve him lingering naked in an invisible background

[archivebottles]

Happy birthday to the most special girl in the universe!! Wanted to try something ambitious and ended up with the biggest comic I've done to date