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Colosseum

Colosseum

von Alan Meeks
Einzelschnitte ab $45.00
Vollständige Familie mit 8 Fonts : $280.00
Colosseum Font Familie wurde entworfen von Alan Meeks und herausgegeben von Alan Meeks. Colosseum enthält 8 Stile und Optionen für Familienpakete.

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Über die Schriftfamilie Colosseum


Obwohl es sich bei Colosseum um eine serifenlose Schrift handelt, verdankt sie ihre Stil der ursprünglichen römischen Form von Trajan. In ihrer serifenlosen Form, die einige Merkmale der Friz Quadrata aufgreift, ist sie besser für die Verwendung in Texten geeignet und hat dennoch ein modernes und originelles Aussehen, das sich gut für Überschriften eignet.

Designer: Alan Meeks

Herausgeber: Alan Meeks

Foundry: Alan Meeks

Eigentümer des Designs: Alan Meeks

MyFonts Debüt: Juli 16, 2015

Kolosseum

Über Alan Meeks

A trained lettering artist and a craftsman who used to make letter shapes strictly by hand, Alan Meeks could be considered a bit of a dinosaur – but only because designers like him are a truly rare find. “I stayed at my first design studio for five years,” he said in his Creative Characters interview. “Obviously, drawing and cutting typefaces all day led to me developing typefaces of my own. My first font design was called Virgin Roman, appropriately enough, which is still around somewhere. In 1974 I joined Letraset.” At Letraset, he helped to build a huge type library designed for dry transfer sheets, a democratic pre-personal-computer system that allowed everyone to set display type by rubbing single letters onto paper. “Up to that point all the new designs were sourced from submissions from all over the world,” he said. “Aside from a few exceptions, the quality was gene­rally inferior and although often original, not really typographically sound enough. So we set out to produce the kind of fonts we felt the market needed, seeking and commissioning fonts from established designers.” His contributions to Letraset’s pre-digital typeface collection was substantial, and many of his typefaces got a second life as part of the ITC, Letraset and Linotype digital libraries. His body of work for the company shows tremendous variety in a wide breadth of styles. “The variety of my designs came from necessity. In my early days at Letraset there were relatively few designs available compared to today, so my job was to create a library of designs and styles, to fill as many gaps in style as possible and to create trends as well as follow them.” His lettering talent extends beyond the limits of type design; his work in branding and packaging proves that. “Whilst I love creating new letterforms and building up a new design in words (I always work in words initially and look at crafting individual letters later) once the basic alphabet and numerals are done, producing the 80 or so incidental characters is tedious and then going through five other weights, italics and condensing can become mind-numbing. The beauty of logos and packaging is that you can see the final result in days or weeks whereas a finished font family can take over a year.”

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