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FF Blur Alternatives

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Noah Nazir
Last edited August 07, 2018

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.

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zygapophysis
Blaze up the custom made of going

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.

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He who laughs last thinks slowest

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fiddlesticks
Slippery chicken hot pot young

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Contradiction keeps sanity in place

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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

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Oppressed people tend to be witty

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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

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This freezer is out of control

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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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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From congeals the knife treatment

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Keep table cleaned after dying

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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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Line up to block in the seafood

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