Type Specimen for LoRes by Emigre

LoRes Emigre

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TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction 5 Font Families

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LoRes 9 6

Lores 12 10

LoRes 15 14

LoRes 22 18 Key Features 22 Design 26 Usage 30 Emerging Usage 32 Typeface History 34

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introduction

LoRes These chunky, jagged, quirky looking typefaces are called Bitmap Typefaces. More than fifteen years ago, Zuzana Licko designed a series of coarse bitmap fonts, created on the newly introduced Macintosh computer with a crude public domain software. These bitmap fonts have since then come a long way in terms of quality.

Bitmap typefaces are built out of blocks on a grid structure. These building elements are called “pixels” (picture elements) and the resulting image is the “bitmap,” literally the “map of bits.” The coarser the resolution, the more limited their possibility of pixel placement. Thus, the variety of representable font characteristics are limited accordingly, which creates even chunkier looking letters.

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Blue - LoRes 9 Wide Regular ^ ^ ^ Yellow - LoRes 9 Wide Bold

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font family

LoRes 9

at 9 / 11 points

LoRes 9 Wide Regular

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt UuVv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

LoRes 9 Wide Bold

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

LoRes 9 Wide Bold Alt Oakland

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

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LoRes 9 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

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Aa Aa Bb Bb Cc Cc Dd Dd Ee Ee Ff Ff Gg Gg Hh Hh ^ Blue - LoRes 12 Regular ^ ^ Dark Blue - LoRes 12 Bold 10

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LoRes 12

at 12 / 14 points

LoRes 12 Regular

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

LoRes 12 Bold

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

LoRes 12 Bold Alt Oakland

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

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LoRes 12 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

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M M II’M ’MLOVING LOVINGIT IT

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LoRes 15 LoRes 15 Bold Alt Oakland

at 15/ 17 points

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

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LoRes 15 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

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VOGUE VOGUE

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

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Aa Bb Cc Dd Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ee Ff Gg Hh ^ Blue - LoRes 22 Bold Oakland ^ ^ Dark Blue - LoRes 22 Serif Bold

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LoRes 22

at 22 / 24 points

LoRes 22 Bold Oakland

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]})

LoRes 22 Serif Bold

Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz 1234567890 ({[.,?!@#$%^&*]}) 19

font family

LoRes 22 The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

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SUPER SUPREME 21 21

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KEY FEATURES

Mainstream typefaces today are dominantly PostScript letters. This is how

smooth edges of a typeface is achieved as those letters consists of a vector outline.

These true bitmap character contains a fixed number of rectilinear units that are displayed either on or off. This creates the signature jagged edges that

LoRes fonts has. Which guarantees your design to be recognized and distinct from miles away.

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^ These visible pixels are becoming accepted as the natural mark of the ^ like brush strokes on an oil painting. The visible geometry of ^computer, pixelated characters is often exploited by designers today.

Read more on page 30.

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design

12 12 ^ 72 DPI Screen Display ^ ^ Lo-Res Twelve = 12 Points 26

^ 96 DPI Screen Display ^ Lo-Res Twelve = 9 Points ^

design

DESIGN The number in each LoRes font name indicates the number of pixels in its body, or ppem (“pixels per em�.) On a standard Macintosh display, this is equal to the point size; under Windows the point size will appear reduced by approximately 75% on a 96-dpi display. (For example, a font designed on a twelve-pixel body will appear best at 12 points on a 72 dpi Macintosh display, whereas on a 96 dpi Windows display, the same twelve-pixel body will be best displayed at 9 points.)

For example, a font designed on a twelve-pixel body will appear best at 12 point on a 72 dpi Macintosh display, whereas on a 96 dpi Windows display, the same twelve-pixel body will be best displayed at 9 point.

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design

9 ^ left is LoRes 9, right is LoRes 22. ^ numbers nine and twenty-two ^ The refer to the number of pixels that compose the capital height.

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EACH FONT IS SPECIAL These bitmap fonts are designed for specific sizes, thus operates optimally according to its specific resolution. This is the number of pixels relative to its body; based on the vertical number of pixels of the grid. And are best scaled onscreen by full integers – for example, LoRes 9 must be set at 9 points to look sharp, and its next optimized size is 18 points.

Therefore scaling LoRes 9 (left) to LoRes 22 (right) to the same capital height measure illustrates why a higher resolution is required to render LoRes 22.

In order to achieve perfect pixel control at small sizes, bitmap designs incorporate the pixels in their structure. The result is that the pixels remain apparent when the fonts are scaled to other sizes. (Their apparent resolution does not increase as the resolution of the output device is increased, for example, from video display to a printed page.)

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REVIVAL

These fonts were considered by many designers as a cute computer effect generally relegated to special effect status like blown-up halftone screens and coarse photo grains. This category of typefaces was seen as idiosyncratic, with limited applicability, soon to be rendered obsolete with the impending arrival of high resolution computer screens and output devices.

Recently, however, coarse bitmapped fonts have made a huge comeback in print.

And this time around, their usage goes far beyond computer related themes, although it remains a dominant typographic force within areas such as techno music and other disciplines where computer technology has had an impact. The reasons for this dramatic comeback are varied.

Bitmaps have not extinct partially due their continued use in electronic gadgets other than PCs.

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While computer developers strive towards faster performance and higher resolution in high-end devices, respectively lower resolutions remain more affordable, portable, efficient and therefore continue to be implemented in such devices as cell phones, microwave oven panels, cash registers, signboard, displays and various small-scale screens.

However, the most obvious reason for its comeback being that a new generation of young graphic designers has entered the profession. For these designers, and their audiences, who grew up playing video games and now surf the Internet, low resolution type is no longer an alien, difficult-to-read, crude computer phenomenon.

It’s been a part of their daily reading experience at home and at school. For this generation, it may be that reading a crude bitmap in print is no different than reading it on the screen.

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EMERGING USAGE The acceptance of bitmaps should not be a complete surprise; bitmapped images and type have a long history. After all, prior to computer graphics,

bitmaps had long served a multitude of ubiquitous visual forms including

tiled mosaics, tapestries, embroidery, knitting and weaving. In each of these

disciplines, distinct elements (pixel units) of colour or shade are combined to form a coherent image.

This is an opportunity to embrace the general public’s acceptance. We see emerging use of the LoRes typeface in advertisements, posters and brand

identities. LoRes typeface ensures your design solution to stand-out and grab people’s attention effortlessly.

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From the first editions of the Macintosh in 1984 and 1985, bitmap typefaces could be designed in their coarsest resolution only created on the newly

introduced Macintosh computer with a crude public domain software. It was

created without the aid yet of Adobe’s PostScript language, resulting in bitmap fonts. In these early days of digital type, Zuzana Licko developed a range of

bitmap typefaces and supplied them to Rudy VanderLans for use in the first editions of the influential Émigré magazine.

These bitmap fonts were originally released as Emigre, Emperor, Oakland and

Universal. However, in 2001, these fonts were repackaged as the LoRes family in 2001, thereby simplifying their naming system. The LoRes family ranges

from 9 to 28 and features narrow, serif and sans serif options. In the twenty first century, these ground-breaking designs now exude nostalgia.

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