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Techno Typefaces

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Last edited June 29, 2015
grapes
microphysics
Fat people are harder to kidnap

Type you may have seen in flyer for a rave in the Nineties.

What became FF TradeMarker was conceived as a “remix” of the Serpentine Bold typeface. After incorporating the proto-design into... Read More

rocket
hypothenuses
Stop, I do not eat junk mail

ITC Flatiron is a revival of an extended all cap headline font from the Photo-Lettering Collection. This hand-drawn sans serif face has uncharacteristic mono-weight letterforms. Deliberately expanded and almost absurdly wide, ITC Flatiron has an unusual style, one that is almost "irreverent."

brandy
hypothenuses
Every encounter keep treasure

Based on square forms, FF QType successfully walks the difficult line between pure geometry and legibility. Achaz Reuss used his years of type design experience to flesh out a concept that could have been, in the hands of a student or amateur, a much less useful result. Five subfamilies make up the whole (Compressed, Condensed, Semi Extended, Extended and Square) each in five weights (Extra... Read More

safety
conceptional
Dog pawprints on your clothes

Based on a rigid grid of squares and triangles, FF Gothic is probably Neville Brody’s most strictly constructed type family. In spite of the simplicity of the basic forms, its many variations allow for play and variety.

brandy
hypothenuses
Fly chair shaking his head

The FF Droids family is a series of display fonts drawn by Amsterdam-based designer Donald Beekman. They were first produced for a Dutch techno-disco group named Discodroids. The inspiration was electrical diagrams and computer circuit boards. Its sans version came in response to many requests from clients.

brandy
abstractions
Humor is reason gone bad

Geometric display faces originally designed for the logo and headlines of 10Dance Magazine, FF Beekman Square carries the name of its designer, Donald Beekman, an influential player in the world of Dutch music design.

chalet
ultraviolets
Fat people are harder to kidnap

Donald Beekman’s FF Backbone package includes four different display families: FF Automatic, FF Overdose, FF Stargate, and FF Totem. FF Automatic was developed as a logo for Automatic Music Productions, a company that, among other things, produces music for computer games and advertisements. The letterforms were inspired by Japanese characters. The first characters for FF Overdose were... Read More

grapes
bureaucratic
Oppressed people tend to be witty

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

Critzla
FontFont 1999
Photo Lettering Inc.
ITC 1997
Brian J. Bonislawsky
Bitstream 2001
Achaz Reuss
FontFont 2004
Neville Brody
FontFont 1992
Donald Beekman
FontFont 1999
Donald Beekman
FontFont 1999
Donald Beekman
FontFont 1999
Critzla
FontFont 1996