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Dots on a Grid
Typefaces with letterforms made from circular dots on a matrix/grid. For dotted fonts that are not mapped to a grid, see Dotted.
See also Squares on a Grid, Electronic Displays.
FF Beadmap began life as a bit of fun with plastic Hama Beads from Denmark. Ian Wright’s children received a set for Christmas, and so he started making little heads with them, as well as type pictures based on embroidered samplers. Wright sent David Crow one of these for a wedding present. Crow liked the idea of making this into a workable font, and so he digitized it.
FF Pop is Neville Brody at his most minimalist. Built on a basic grid of horizontal and vertical lines, FF Pop comes in a monoline and a dotted LED version.
“Typography is what brought me to graphic design,” says FF Karo designer Martin L’Allier. “I played with typefaces before exploring the world of images.” In an introductory type design course offered during his second year of college, he designed the first version of FF Karo (then called Wisigoth and Ostrogoth). A quote from Matthew Carter was the inspiration for L’Allier’s project: “Black... Read More
First used in the books on (and by) the German techno scene, and techno design specifically, FF Localizer is at the same time a nostalgic 70s and a 90s typeface. Along the lines of “we thought this would be the future, then it wasn’t, but it didn’t matter after all, so here it is”. The additional FF Bionic and FF Chemo families (originally released as FF Localizer Clones) are Critzla's personal... Read More