Florian
@hardwig
Typographer, type writer, researcher. Editor @FontsInUse. Graphic designer at Kaune & Hardwig, Berlin. He/him. Find me here: mastodon.social/@fhardwig
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http://florian.hardwig.com 10-11-2009 18:25:04
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August’s Font of the Month Club is GLYPTIC DJR, a revival of Herman Ihlenburg’s ornamental serif. My interpretation leans into its chaotic energy, emphasizing the angularity of the wedge serifs and contrasting them against delicate curlicues. Now available at fontofthemonth.club!
Jean Midolle, Alphabet Lapidaire Monstre, 1835 (1) and Ivan Chermayeff, Mozart Violinkonzerte album cover, Musical Masterpiece Society, ca. 1958 (2). Read more about these two on Fonts In Use: fontsinuse.com/uses/21615/moz…
To properly tell the whole story behind Raskal’s design, we collaborated with type nerd and scholar Dan Reynolds With great care and patience, Dan put the words to narrate the 10 years-long process that lead to the first Swiss Typefaces script font: swisstypefaces.com/read/raskal/
♀🇬🇷 New on the Blog: Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words Maria Paganopoulou looks back on Πόλη Γυναικών (Póli Gynaikón – City of Women), the Greek feminist periodical from the 1980s: fontsinuse.com/uses/44785/rec…
I’m giving a free talk next week about all things Franklin Gothic as part of Type@Cooper & Lubalin Center’s Herb Lubalin Lecture Series. The event will be live in person at The Cooper Union and also streaming online. RSVP for free: coopertype.org/event/franklin…
Lots of typefaces with a soft warm feel and 1970s overtones came out in recent years (see fontsinuse.com/sets/10475/sof…) Sirenia by Felix Braden is a mature addition, with cursive details, lots of swash alternates, and a look reminiscent of melting chocolate. floodfonts.com/sirenia/
A little belated, but I'm so honored to have been asked to write the release essay for Frere-Jones Type’s incredible new type family Community Gothic that came out earlier this week! Also excited to use the typefaces in some design projects myself soon too... frerejones.com/blog/grit-and-…