House Industries Eames Century Modern

I'm happy to show the Eames Century Modern Font Collection [minisite] I drew (three years) for House Industries in collaboration with the Eames Office. On March 11 the font collection and exhibition was presented at the Eames Office in Santa Monica, California. [set on flickr] The exhibition featured some terrific three dimensional letters and giant cards designed by House Industries Andy Cruz, printed by long time House collaborator David Dodde. At the party, LA's Freshpressed did on-site screenprinting of Eames Century letters on totes and shirts.

The collection consist an extensive roman and italic in 8 weights, a stencil and cameo, ornaments, poster figures and frames. Altogether 22 fonts, additional drawings by Ken Barber (Cover Figures), Ben Kiel (Frames) and Bondé Prang (some of the Ornaments).

Try the Eames Century Modern fonts on the House Industries LetterSetter. Check here for purchase and licensing options.

FontFont Trixie update adds detail and features

The OpenType update of FontFont Trixie adds extensive language support for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek. It also introduces two new styles of detail, Rough and High Definition.

Trixie Rough adds a rough texture, increasing the size in which you can use fonts while remaining in character. All Rough styles are compatible with the original releases, making it easy to upgrade existing designs and identities.

Trixie HD takes typewriter realism to another level altogether. A new vectorisation technique was developed to push the level of detail, creating realistic effects in print and on screen. Over 17 million points in the release. More top trump numbers and an overview of all the features in this PDF

Have a look and purchase the Trixie styles at FontFont.com: OT Light, and OT Heavy, Trixie Rough Light, and Rough Heavy. And finally FF Trixie HD Light and HD Heavy.

More about the features, the development of the renderer and the design soon.

Beowolf in the Graphic Design Museum

The new Graphic Design Museum in Breda opened. One of the displays shows Beowolf and BeoSans in action in a great interactive installation developed by Lust with an interview and some TypoMan movies.

The museum shows contemporary and historic graphic design. Very nice to see the original Oxenaar money drawings and Piet Zwart prints. It's an honor to be included in the collection.

OpenType Beowolf and BeoSans at FontShop

Escaped from the LettError Labs: the OpenType versions of Beowolf, BeoSans Hard and BeoSans Soft. Get ready to relive the early days of desktop publishing without having to leave the comfort of InDesign. "Are they really random", notebook wielding trainspotters will ask. No, OpenType does not allow the execution of arbitrary code. We asked for it though. So instead, we built a factory, using the original pre-random contours of Beowolf and BeoSans. A RoboFab based randomiser then generated 10 randomised versions of each glyph, in 4 different strengths per style. This adds up to over 80,000 glyphs. The fonts have OpenType substitution code to make sure those alternates make their appearance at the right time. So you get everything the original Type 3 randomiser would give you, but this time it's also on screen. And it won't take forever to print.

Order now from FontFont.com: Beowolf, BeoSans Hard, and BeoSans Soft.

LetterSetter

Tal Leming’s OpenType Layout Engine (TypeSupply) powers the 2007 version of LetterSetter™. Have a look at the demo , and see how LS lets you play with OpenType features, different textboxes in a single image, transparency, imaging and advanced layering. Get in touch with Erik or Tal if you want to show your OpenType fonts on your site with LetterSetter.

Superpolator!

Announcing Superpolator.app, available now.

Künstlerbrüder installation: Haus der Kunst, Munich.

Erik, Petr van Blokland and Claudia Mens worked on an installation of banners for the Künstlerbrüder exhibition. Read more..

LTR Federal in OpenType

LTR Federal is now available in OpenType format. That means our friends on Windows can now also enjoy this 19th century typographic gem. Read more..

LTR DataMine, new free font from LettError

A new free font from LettError. Have a look here!

Print your own LettError catalog

printable PDF specimen sheets for the LTR Federal family. 600 dpi black and white, looks terrific on a normal laserprinter. No fonts.

Special interest stuff

The official Wolfraam website, the world’s only band by typedesigners.

The unoffical Gerrit Noordzij website

The LettError Wiki, a compact wiki with ongoing discussions about RoboFab and other LettError developments.

New TypeMedia site

Older stuff

From the days when Petr van Blokland wrote IkarusM on a Mac Plus, the animated Ikarus guy from the about box .

Movies and sound Animations from the dusty-archives department: almost all of the LettError animations online.

The Dutch Letterfilm Association proudly presents! An animation from 19-eighty-8.
It's not all just type and fonts. A list of clients and the things we've done for them: Portfolio.
Sketch book: drawings rudely taken out of context: Sketch book.
A couple of odd projects and fun things. If you can't find it in the Foundry or in the Portfolio, it's probably here: Projects.
Then there are these really curious bits of music LTTRRRSND:.