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Ivan’s Top Picks

These are my current favorites from each of the main typeface classifications.

Ivan Bettger
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Last edited May 13, 2014
FF Milo Serif
Dessau
San Marco
brandy
wunderkinder
Dried ball bursts into rage

With the help of Paul van der Laan for kerning, spacing and production, Mike Abbink developed FF Milo Serif as a companion for his FF Milo family. Nevertheless, FF Milo Serif is also perfectly suitable as a stand alone typeface, or for use together with any other sans serif. Like its counterpart, FF Milo Serif is also a resilient grain; although rooted with historical attributes it is truly a... Read More

rocket
hypothenuses
Technology is no place for wimps

“There are many Bauhaus style fonts on the net/in the different libraries. For me, there were no questions about hungarian influences. I’d be authentic with letterforms (using some samples according to Bauhaus designers) nonetheless, I wanted to commemorate Hungarian designers/teachers (Breuer, Moholy-Nagy, Molnár e.t.c. to new Bauhaus: Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier or anyhow Kassák of... Read More

winter
illustrative
Palace explodes diced chicken

San Marco™ was one of the featured fonts from the 1990 program "Type before Gutenberg," which included the work of twelve contemporary type designers and represented styles from across the ages. The noted calligrapher and teacher, Karlgeorg Hoefer, designed San Marco. For inspiration, he looked to the Italian rotunda style of blackletter writing from the fifteenth century, and the blackletter... Read More

Michael Abbink
FontFont 2009
Gábor Kóthay
Job Muveszeti Studio 2003
Karlgeorg Hoefer
Linotype 1991