S4E3 - A Multiverse of Font Madness

Are we entering an entirely new universe of font genres‽ It"s becoming harder and harder to classify genres in typography, and many of the newer releases are just exacerbating that difficulty. Whether it"s finding whimsy in your text serifs where it doesn"t belong, a dot font that abandons all conscious typographic reality, or a new-fangled approach we"re calling a "multi-genre" font, new fonts are as alive and creative and confusing as they"ve ever been. That is, unless Kyle succeeds at taking us back to Ancient Rome... Links to everything that we discussed in this episode: Sylvain Boyer explains the story behind the Olympic logo Olympic typefaces through history The Variable font designed for Nike from Pizza Typefaces Gramercy from Dinamo Gamuth from Production Type NaN Tragedy from NaN Columba from East of Rome Scatterplot from Cast Type Foundry Some examples of what we think are "multi-genre": Arsen from Typofounderie Notice from Erkin Karamemet Trust from MCKL Type Articles about "Infillism": Emigre: Time and Time Again on the Fontstand Blog Response to this Infillism essay by Klim Type foundry"s Kris Sowersby: Welcome to the Infill Font Foundry Response to these essays by Stephen Coles on Typographica: Rejecting Infillism and Waterfalls of Mediocrity And we assume that you certainly don"t remember that Armour Hot Dog jingle Armour Fonts, the fonts kids love to bite! Support the Interrogang for as little as $3 a month and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! These episodes are all thanks to your support! Support the show