Wavey or Waterlogged

The Handel Gothic™ typeface has been a mainstay of graphic communication for over 40 years - all the while looking as current as tomorrow. Designed by Don Handel in the mid-1960s, and used in the 1973 United Airlines logo developed by Saul Bass, Handel Gothic was an instant success when released to the graphic design community. Its generous lowercase x-height, full-bodied counters and square... Read More

Italian designer Mauro Carichini created Linotype WaterFlag Regular after being inspired by the way distortion affects letters underwater. As a starting point, he created a strict, geometric alphabet. This was then distorted, by means of incorporating wavy forms into the design. This gives the letters a dynamic and moving feeling. The typeface is well suited for headlines. Linotype WaterFlag... Read More

Designer Markus Hanzer introduces his own FF Irregular this way: “The traditional problem with computer graphics has always been their sterility. People have tried over and over again to simulate the dirtiness, randomness, naturalness and complexity of handmade art. People are recognizing more and more that the computer is not only suited for creating perfect order, but is just as good in the... Read More

Linotype Laika is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. This fun font was created by Dutch designer Mark van Wageningen, who based its forms on those of a sans serif font but gave them wavy, irregular contours. They look almost as though they lie just under the surface of a pool and the... Read More

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,... Read More

With Linotype Albatross, Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger has played with flames that come out of the exhausts from Michael Schumacher's Ferrari, or the hot rod cars in America, or at tractor pulling contests. This gives this sans serif face a speedy and wavy flavour. It fits ideally for speedy headlines like for bikers couriers.