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Rick Griffin and Rick Griffin Contour

It's always good to see the fruits of one's labours, and graphic designer Jack Tom from Bridgeport in Connecticut USA was kind enough to email a copy of his excellent cover design for Colby College magazine, using K-Type Rick Griffin. I'm sure Rick would approve.

October 01, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Lexia Readable for Macmillan

Macmillan Education New Zealand has commissioned two new additions to the Lexia Readable family. The Regular and Bold will remain Freebies, but a new Custom Series commences with the Italic and Italic Bold ordered by Macmillan. Heavy and Outline 'publisher' varieties of Lexia are also being added.

March 09, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Marginal in Subway Ticker

The latest album by the phenomenally talented Bristol musician Ken Peel (aka Avon), employs the K-Type freebie Subway Ticker to create just the right urban feel for his CD, Marginal, which beautifully "blurs the boundaries between ambient electronica and jazz, evoking the rich narrative style of art-house cinema."

March 08, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Typeology features K-Type

Robert Fauver's showcase magazine, Typeology, is now available for pdf download and contains 14 new fonts from 11 designers.

K-Type was invited to contribute, and the new CyberScript font makes its debut in the playfully distorted shape of CyberScript Shimmer which is included on the magazine's CD.

February 06, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

K-Type used by Photoshop Creative and Mac Creative

The cover discs on the February 2006 editions of Photoshop Creative and Mac Creative will feature a big bundle of K-Type fonts. K-Types are the perfect choice for Creative's readers because whilst many free fonts contain only the main characters, the basic alphabet and punctuation if you're lucky, we like to provide a full complement of Latin keyboard glyphs, even on the freebies - none of those missing question marks, sterling or euro symbols!

January 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Insecurity gets Commended

K-Type has received an honourable mention in the 2005 FUSE Typeface Competition where Keith Bates's Insecurity was awarded a Commendation -

This font is demi-dingbat, part readable, part pictorial. It was compiled Pop Art fashion using images trawled from internet searches, entering various expressions relating to 'Security'. The aim was to reflect the theme intuitively and eclectically, without concern for restrictions of copyright or weighty documentation. Its appearance derives partly from children's spelling books or alphabet cards, and partly from its ancestors, the Mailart Typeface and Mailart Graphics font of 2004.

November 05, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Summer of Love

It's been a Summer of Love in the sunny North West of England, give or take a rainy fortnight here and there. After having bought a copy of Gastaut and Criqui's book 'Off the Wall - Psychedelic Rock Posters from San Francisco' from Fopp Records in July, we went to the Liverpool Tate Gallery a few weeks ago and saw their Summer of Love Exhibition. The best part was right at the start, a big room filled with those wonderful hippy posters by Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, my favourite Victor Moscoso, and others, not forgetting the wonderful Martin Sharp here in England.

Apart from being stunned by the amazing colours of the original posters, I'd already begun to look closely at Victor Moscoso's letter forms and start work on a font inspired by the hugely exaggerated slab serifs on posters like his 'Horns of Plenty' featuring Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother & the Holding Company.

And so K-Type Bigfoot is born, Moscoso-inspired but with a completely new set of lower case letters that were pretty tricky to keep in character.

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October 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

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