K-TYPE

Lindy Heymann’s movie ‘Kicks’ is currently receiving critical acclaim and K-Type Roadway is the director’s choice of font for the title, credits and publicity captions. The film is the story of two teenage girls in Liverpool who share an adoration for a local footballer. When a transfer to Real Madrid is announced, the girls take drastic action to prevent him leaving.

Designing fonts feels like playing about at a sub-atomic level in some kind of typographical microverse, a godlike noodling with the stuff of creation. Particularly so with New Old English where I would be tampering with tiny particles of history and quite possibly treading on the toes of time. I was aware of impertinently tinkering with things that might best be left untinkered, yet the direct source for my font was not an original blackletter from the Middle Ages, but a mere 150 year old example of Victorian Medievalism where the tampering had already begun. [More...]

K-Type has been working with Liverpool-based art director Liz Harry to create a personalized font for the band ‘I Blame Coco’ and their label, Island Records. Loosely based on Coco Sumner’s handwritten capitals, the font will be used throughout the current promotion campaign on the web, in print, on merchandising and for a film documentary about the band.

Designer Mike Kus delivered an inspirational presentation at this year’s FOWD conference in London, and his much-praised slideshow made great use of K-Type’s Roadway font based on the typeface used for New York street signage.

K-Type Norton is the choice of typeface for “Old Man Stewart” on the current series of top US satire, The Daily Show. The font which is based on the four characters in the old Norton motorcycles logo, has been updated for contemporary use and expanded to include a lower case and our usual full complement of accented characters.