type & suprematism
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- warheros2
list some suprematist type faces.
lissitzky/malevich/schwitters/&c
- Typographica0
Can you give some physical descriptors of what you're looking for?
- warheros20
i guess i want a list of the fonts used in periodicals mostly by lissitzky, i cant seem to find it in the book i have, or the internet.
seems there is a style for it though, either extreme serif's or sans.
check this picture of MERZ by lissitzky, it'd be cool if i could find that title font and the body font there.
but i would like to find some other suprematist style fonts. or fonts made by suprematists...though i dont think there are many as they were concered with other problems other than type.
- F_180
alot of those fonts were hand made at the time and might not exist as actual typefaces. BTW, the MoMa NYC has a ton of great supremacist works in their current collection.
- warheros20
mmmmm, paul digs suprematism. wish i could go to NYC!
- Typographica0
Apply made their own interpretation of the Merz font.
- warheros20
man, that is cool, but seriously, that 's' is too goofy. im using trade gothic right now.
the 's' is appropiate.
- Typographica0
Yeah, I think they got too art deco with it. Bau might be appropriate too.
- warheros20
what's the difference between bau and univers?
- Typographica0
Oh geez. Look closer. FF Bau has its roots in a much early form of grotesque. Note the 'g', 'a' and heavier weights especially.
- warheros20
ahhh, nice, nice. i was just going off of a few letters i knew by memory. word.
- warheros20
awesome, thanks for that, typographica.
hey, what do you do? im a student, VERY interested in typography, we should do something or something, like a project. it would be fun now that im in summer only taking two classes.
let me know i guess.
- NegativeSpace0
If you are interested in other styles of types like constructivist stuff you should also check out ITC Stenberg and Paratype's Rodchenko.
- Typographica0
war - i can't draw. if you can draw, i can arrange. then we're on.
- warheros20
stenberg is good stuff, havent found paratype's rodchenko yet.
thanks!
- NegativeSpace0
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/par…
P22 has a contruktivist type too but it is not as goodas the other two imo.
- warheros20
awesome, thanks.
i found rudolph koch's type kabel works pretty well too.