Type
August 23rd, 2009
Type sketches
As of yet this is not strictly speaking a lost cause. It is still in (almost) development.
The idea is to reduce ink and paper use by creating a lingua franca of fonts, to be supplied on all computers. It may be ugly, but the idea is the key. It is for in-house proofs and prints where beauty is not called for, just efficiency. Since I first began work on this, others have had the same idea, and got the job done, most notably John Maeda and Spranq. Where this differs is in discarding parts of the font itself, including shaving off curves, condensing, cutting some horizontals and even some verticals. It is harshly geometric and could be used to save paint on naval inscriptions down to tiny legal notices. As I said though, its not beautiful.