p. 54 Escript Linotype, Bad Homburg (DE) linotype.com
Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger designed Escript (2003) as a handwriting typeface with fresh, lively forms. Each letter has a slightly different character, yet all fit well together and this lack of concrete rules gives the font a spontaneous feel. Escript is well suited to headlines, smaller texts, and initials when combined with constructed typefaces. Hans-Jürgen Ellenberger was born in 1950. From his early drawings at a German Grammer School, resulted in lots of logos, caricatures, cartoons, sketches, and also various types. He also worked for students’ newspapers and graduated in 1968. Because of a wide interest in natural science he studied Biology and Chemistry at the University of Tübingen. He went on to become a teacher at grammer schools and among others made illustrations for school books. In the early nineties, with the release of the computer, he has since then experimented and worked with digital type design.
p. 55 Comic Sans Pro Monotype Imaging, Woburn MA (US) Linotype, Bad Homburg (DE) fonts.com / linotype.com
Monotype Imaging for enlivening Comic Sans and getting it back to its roots as a comic book lettering face. Now everyone can write with more panache – and look even more like a pro using swashes, small caps and other typographic embellishments,” said Connare. The Comic Sans Pro family includes regular and bold fonts, in addition to two new italic and bold italic fonts drawn by Monotype Imaging’s Terrance Weinzierl. Comic Sans Pro contains a versatile range of typographic features including swashes, small caps, ornaments, old style figures and stylistic alternates – all supported by the OpenType font format. In addition, Comic Sans Pro includes a set of ornaments and symbols, including speech bubbles, onomatopoeia and dingbats, pre-sized to work well as bullets. Vincent Connare has been working professionally in the software industry producing font projects for corporations for over fifteen years. While working at Agfa / Compugraphic from 1987 till 1993 he was a member of the Ikarus, Intellifont and TrueType font production teams. At Agfa he was one of the first type designers to learn TrueType hinting. He finalized the hinting of four TrueType fonts to Apple’s first TrueType font pack. In 1993 he joined Microsoft Corporation as a Typographic Engineer and worked on custom type projects for Microsoft products. At Microsoft he designed and produced two of the most popular typefaces of the 1990’s, Comic Sans and Trebuchet. There he also wrote documents relating to TrueType hinting and font production. Today, Vincent is on the staff of Dalton Maag Ltd. A London based type design agency Terrance Weinzierl is a type designer for Monotype Imaging. He is actively involved in custom font design, retail fonts and both productizing and testing fonts. Terrance, along with the font development team at Monotype, has worked on fonts for Microsoft, Google, and Barnes and Noble, as well as design firms, ad agencies and publishers. Besides typography, Terrance likes gadgets, video games, and dreaming about the future.
p. 56 / 64 Lady Fair / Horror Flick Jukebox, Anaheim CA (US) Veer, New York NY (US) jawarts.com/Fonts.htm veer.com Vincent Connare, Terrance Weinzierl connare.com typeterrance.com The Comic Sans typeface, one of Microsoft’s most popular designs, has received a makeover courtesy of Monotype Imaging. The company has introduced the four-font Comic Sans Pro family of typefaces (2011). Featuring elements such as speech bubbles and cartoon dingbats, Comic Sans Pro extends the versatility of the original Comic Sans, designed by Vincent Connare for Microsoft in 1994. “Hats off to
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Lady Fair (2011) was inspired by handlettering done for advertisement posters for the 1965 film, My Fair Lady. It has a wonderfully childlike and fun feeling to it, as well as evoking 1960s design. Starting with only the letters that appear in the film title, I built a full typeface from this and included many swashes and alternates in the OpenType features. Horror Flick (2009) was also inspired by handlettering on a Film Noir poster called from the 1950s. It has that classic old Hollywood “B” horror movie feel to it. I enjoy the fun tongue-in-cheek attitude towards horror that this font evokes. Jason Walcott was born in Michigan, grew up in New Jersey and now resides in Southern California. He graduated cum laude from Kean College of New Jersey in 1997 with a BFA in Illustration. Having always had an interest in type and design along with his art training, Jason designed his first typeface in spring of 2000. Walcott’s fonts were originally sold under the name JAW Fonts until he partnered with Veer in the spring of 2003. At that time the font library was relaunched as Jukebox.
p. 56 Savage Hipsters / Weird Bill Sideshow, Eau Claire WI (US) fontbros.com/sideshow.php
Tom Plate, Stuart Sandler tom-plate.de fontdiner.com Savage Hipsters (2008) was designed by German pinstriper Tom Plate for Sideshow and all you retro custom beatniks. Put some bebop in your art – use standard for melody and caps lock for rhythm. Comes with Regular and Way Out caps. Tom Plate was born in 1967 in Bremen, Germany. After school, he studied Illustration in Hamburg, during which he started drawing the bi-weekly comic strip Freddy & Annabell for a German car magazine. Numerous illustrations for various media followed, until he discovered the art of pinstriping, which led to him becoming Germany’s only full-time pinstriper. He’s still doing illustrations occasionally, as well as other graphics and design related issues. He works by his main mottos: “Rhyme, Rhythm, Reason!” and “You want it – I paint it!” Sideshow is a collection of super-humans, born freaks, geeks, giants, daredevils, tattooed sword swallowing death defying designers of typographic oddities is sure to delight, sur-