Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Emigre

Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko founded Emigre in the mid 1980’s. Emigre produced a magazine called Emigre and designed and distributed original fonts. VanderLan led and edited the magazine while Licko made many of the successful Emigre fonts. In the late 1980’s Emigre started to distribute its fonts through floppy disks. Tim Strback of Emigre helped launch Now Serving in 1994, an online bulletin board that allowed users to purchase and download fonts. Licko alone has developed a large font library, with nearly 30 type families to her name- including the font Mrs. Eaves. Through the lifespan of Emigre, the typefaces from its foundry were continually on display and played as significant a role as the content.
Fonts by Zuzana Licko:
1. Mrs. Eaves- transitional serif typeface designed by Zuzana Licko in 1996, Mrs Eaves is a revival of the types of English printer and punchcutter John Baskerville, and is related to contemporary Baskerville typefaces.
2. Filosofia, based on Bodoni
3. Others include Solex and Tarzana, blackletters like Totally Gothic and Totally Glyphic, and the swirling Hypnopeadia patterns.
Fonts by others
1. Dead History, Designed by Scott Makela 1990
2. Keedy Sans, Designed by Jeffery Keedy in 1989 (pictured below)Dead History originally caught my eye because it is a pretty funky font, but Mrs. Eaves is a popular font and looks very classic.

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