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FF Blur Alternatives
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FF Blur is from FontFont’s earliest period, made in 1991 by British designer Neville Brody. The typeface was developed by blurring a grayscale image of an existing grotesque and then vectorizing what remained. Though deceptively simple, his process was imitated widely afterward, with mediocre results. Notwithstanding the knock-offs, FF Blur entered the zeitgeist of early and mid-1990s design, and has remained visible to date. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York added a selection of digital typefaces to its permanent collection. FF Blur was one of just 23 designs to make the cut.
The FF “Dirty Faces 1” package came first in a series of “destructive” font compilations published by FontFont. The advent of the FF Dirty Faces series launched a completely new trend in type design and inspired many others to begin creating and publishing their own lines of “dirty” typefaces, worn, blurred, degraded and digitally deconstructed. FF Dirty One comes in two styles, Regular and Bold.
FF “Dirty Faces 1” package was the first of a series of “destructive” font compilations published by FontFont. The advent of the FF Dirty Faces series launched a whole new trend in type design and inspired many others to begin creating or publishing their own lines of “dirty” typefaces. FF Dirty One comes in two weights, Regular and Bold. The FF Dirty One fonts are also part of the FF Skill... Read More
Yanek Iontef loves the printing on cardboard packaging. For years, he collected empty cardboard boxes that once carried imported goods. His studio soon looked like a warehouse. To regain ground, he began transforming the visual language of the boxes into a font with universal appeal. Then, he donated the whole of his cardboard collection to a local recycling facility. There are two FF... Read More
Just as popular as the digital typewriter face FF Trixie are those in the FF Instant Types series: FF Confidential, FF Dynamoe, FF Flightcase, FF Karton, and FF Stamp Gothic. Named after the places each comes from, these fonts feature familiar character sets from everyday letters and figures all around us: packaging, flight cases, children’s stamp boxes, Dymo tape labelers. We see them every... Read More
Just as popular as the digital typewriter face FF Trixie are those in the FF Instant Types series: FF Confidential, FF Dynamoe, FF Flightcase, FF Karton, and FF Stamp Gothic. Named after the places each comes from, these fonts feature familiar character sets from everyday letters and figures all around us: packaging, flight cases, children’s stamp boxes, Dymo tape labelers. We see them every... Read More
Trend is a typeface made of layers, taking as a basis a sans and a slab version. It is the result of observation, search and study of the... Read More
Classic Grotesque by Rod McDonald:a traditional font with a modern face An update of Monotype Grotesque that was first published in 1926, Rod McDonald's Classic Grotesque combines both traditional and contemporary elements of typography. With its many fascinating details, Classic Grotesque is at home in print and web designs.The growing popularity of grotesque typefaces meant that many new sans... Read More
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Tablet Gothic from Veronika Burian and José Scaglione of TypeTogether makes brilliant harmony of two disparate grotesque models in a... Read More
Ascender Sans Mono Regular was designed by Steve Matteson as an innovative, refreshing sans serif design that is metrically compatible with Courier New. Ascender Sans Mono offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set. The Ascender Sans Mono Regular font solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document... Read More
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During designer Felix Braden’s search for an offline companion to the Verdana typeface, he set off on the development of a new series of... Read More
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In 1983, D. Stempel AG redesigned the famous Helvetica typeface for the digital age, creating Neue Helvetica for Linotype: a... Read More
The ITC Pino™ typeface family is Slobodan Jelesijevic’s second suite of commercial fonts. Although a small family of three weights, it is remarkably versatile. Like many typefaces, Pino grew out of a desire for a particular kind of design. Jelesijevic was creating a series of illustrations for a children’s magazine and needed a typeface that was lighthearted, legible and would complement his... Read More
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During planning for the new Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at the beginning of the 1970s, it was determined that the airport's... Read More
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FF ThreeSix is a vast optical type system consisting of six variants across eight weights, including four additional monospaced weights.... Read More
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FF Sero combines the familiar forms of an American Grotesque with the legibility of a Humanist sans. It has open counters, a relatively... Read More
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FF Nuvo is a contemporary sans with a slight contrast. Certain characters have a calligraphic touch, especially a, g and y. The typeface... Read More
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FF DIN Round comes as a welcome addition to the most popular family in the FontFont library and brings warmth to FF DIN’s simplicity and... Read More
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FF Cocon’s designer, Evert Bloemsma (1958–2005) described it as a “serious typeface.” Despite first impressions, the description holds up... Read More
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