Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Edie & Eddy Slab
January 4, 2023
Steven Heller takes a closer look at Lisa Fischbach’s wonderful new slab serif font family, Edie and Eddy Slab.
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Steven Heller takes a closer look at Geetype’s magnificent, bold and curvaceous Geetype! Steven Heller takes a closer look at Craig Eliason’s magnificent Feneon font family. Travel back to the sixties, and the scene of underground design, in this live interview with Steven Heller discussing his memoir Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York. From the moment I started the engine in first gear with Slag Black, then accelerated to Slag Inline, Two Line, Three Line, and finally slid into Five Line, I felt an exhilarating jolt. There is so much color and texture in Slag’s linear geometric variations – and in the combination of large and small caps (which replaces lowercase letters) – that I was satisfied that the Slag family WAS the winnes in this month’s type road race. This month it’s Font of the Month with an s! Yes, Steve heller takes a look at two unorthodox layer font families from rising French star Francis Chouquet. Vive la play! Naming a typeface is like naming a newborn baby, kitten or puppy. The name either must reveal heritage or suggest personality. Sometimes a name triggers obvious connections; for example, the given or surname of the designer(s) or client the face has been designed for makes a lot of sense. Other times the name is a […] In 1958 Bradbury Thompson developed the ‘monoalphabet’, a type whose distinctive concept was that uppercase and lowercase forms were identical. The monoalphabet was modeled on his favorite serif face, Baskerville, with lowercase a, e, m, and n mixed with uppercase letters. Join Steven Heller for this special episode of Font of the Month as he takes a closer look at Astronef Super, a playful, bold, and brilliant new font family designed by Jean François Porchez.
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Slag
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Bangel
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Ambicase
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Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Astronef Super
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