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Backspacer

Backspacer™

by Emigre
Individual Styles from $39.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $65.00
Backspacer Font Family was designed by Nancy Mazzei, Brian Kelly and published by Emigre. Backspacer contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Backspacer Family

2 fonts

Best Value!

Per style:

$32.50

Pack of 2 styles:

$65.00

About Backspacer Font Family


Years ago, by happenstance, designers Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly found an old decrepit typewriter in an abandoned lot with tall grass in Brooklyn. They kept it around their apartment for two years. Then one day they decided that it was time to move and they planned to throw the old typewriter away. But it was so beautiful they wanted to keep at least a part of it. So they decided on keeping the keys. They kept the keys in a brown bag until one fine day the keys were introduced to a camera. It was a match made in heaven that resulted in some beautiful quirky images of typewriter keys. These images were the inspiration for Backspacer. They were scanned, traced and turned into a working typeface by Zuzana Licko.

Designers: Nancy Mazzei, Brian Kelly

Publisher: Emigre

Foundry: Emigre

Original Foundry: Emigre

Design Owner: Emigre

MyFonts debut: Dec 9, 2002

Backspacer™ is a trademark of Emigre.

About Emigre

Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry based in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh computer Emigre were among the early adaptors to the new digital technology. From 1984 until 2005 Emigre published the legendary Emigre magazine, a quarterly publication devoted to visual communication. Emigre created some of the very first digital layouts and typeface designs winning them both world-wide acclaim and much criticism. The exposure of these typefaces in Emigre magazine eventually lead to the creation of Emigre Fonts, one of the first independent type foundries utilizing personal computer technology for the design and distribution of fonts. They created the model for hundreds of small foundries who followed in their footsteps.

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