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FF Tokyo Alternatives

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Noah Nazir
Last edited August 07, 2018

On March 20, 1988, Mike Tyson defended his world championship title against challenger Tony Tubbs. The event’s poster was designed by Neville Brody which named the fight’s location: the Tokyo Dome. Full alphabets based on the letters Brody drew by hand for the poster were eventually completed and digitized into ten fonts. These form the FF Dome, FF Tokyo, and FF World series. All typefaces have a number of alternate forms, which can be mixed and (in FF Tokyo’s case) layered.

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On March 20, 1988, Mike Tyson defended his world championship title against challenger Tony Tubbs. The event’s poster was designed by Neville Brody which named the fight’s location: the Tokyo Dome. Full alphabets based on the letters Brody drew by hand for the poster were eventually completed and digitized into ten fonts. These form the FF Dome, FF Tokyo, and FF World series. All typefaces have... Read More

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