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Apocalypso

Apocalypso™

by Barnbrook Fonts
Individual Styles from $30.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $48.00
Apocalypso Font Family was designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and published by Barnbrook Fonts. Apocalypso contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Apocalypso Family

2 fonts

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Per style:

$24.00

Pack of 2 styles:

$48.00

About Apocalypso Font Family


Apocalypso is a pictogram font for the end of the world. The name Apocalypso is a portmanteau of the words apocalypse (end of the world) and calypso (joyful improvised music), with a meaning analogous to the idiom ‘fiddling while Rome burns’. The Apocalypso family is more of an art project than a practical font and contains a series of crosses and pictograms. The crosses add decorative detailing to typographic layouts, whilst the pictograms can be deployed to express the forthcoming apocalypse. Apocalypso was originally published in 1997, a few years before the turn of the millennium. It is both a document of the ideas of the time and a scarily prophetic vision of a possible world that has now largely come to pass.

Designers: Jonathan Barnbrook

Publisher: Barnbrook Fonts

Foundry: Barnbrook Fonts

Design Owner: Barnbrook Fonts

MyFonts debut: Aug 18, 2003

Apocalypso™ is a trademark of Barnbrook Fonts.

About Barnbrook Fonts

The font foundry of designers Barnbrook and Jonathan Barnbrook, formerly known as Virusfonts. Creators of Emigre Fonts Exocet, Mason and Priori. Designers of David Bowie Record covers. Iconoclastic collaborators with Damien Hirst and Adbusters. Branders for major museums, locations and art biennales. The studio is based in London and continues to work on a wide variety of cultural and musical projects and museum exhibitions.

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