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Beauty and Ugliness in Type design
Typeface stories by Peter BiľakArticle on the process of designing Karloff typeface, showing just how closely related beauty and ugliness are.Conceptual Type?
Essays by Peter BiľakIn November 2010 Peter Biľak was invited to give a talk at a one-day conference ‘Conceptual Type – Type led by ideas’ in Copenhagen about the underlying ideas behind typefaces. This lecture questions the possibility of conceptual type and compares type to other disciplines.About Uni Grotesk, a Central European geometric Sans
Typeface stories by Peter BiľakUni Grotesk is a modern adaptation of the ubiquitous but awkward Universal Grotesk, a typeface that dominated communist Czechoslovakia.
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Karloff, convergence of beauty and ugliness
New fontsKarloff connects the high contrast Modern type of Bodoni and Didot with the monstrous Italians. The difference between the attractive and repulsive forms lies in the contrast between the thick and the thin.Karloff Pro: Beauty and Ugliness Now Converge in Cyrillic
New fontsUpdatesKarloff Cyrillic and Greek, designed by Maria Doreuli, who takes a particular interest in reverse-contrast typefaces.