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TapeType

TapeType

by Volcano Type
Licenses from $29.00
Complete family of 5 fonts: $29.00
TapeType Font Family was designed by Lars Harmsen and published by Volcano Type. TapeType contains 5 styles and family package options.

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TapeType Set

5 fonts

Best Value!

  • Fraktape Sticky Fraktape Sticky

  • Fraktape Duct Fraktape Duct

  • Mrs Tape Tape Mrs Tape Tape

  • Tapemate Regular Tapemate Regular

  • Tapemate Outline Tapemate Outline

Per style:

$5.80

Pack of 5 styles:

$29.00

About TapeType Font Family


Fonts don’t necessarily have to be created on a computer but can emerge from completely different origins. As the name TapeType suggests, the set of fonts and images used to design the intro-pages of the Useless Magazine (Spring 2007) emerged from sticky tape. The Useless Magazine (From Starshot) appears twice a year coinciding with the IPSO in Munich. The Starshot Fotofactory was literally taped up in two days under the guidance of the Creative Director Lars Harmsen (FinestMagma Karlsruhe & Starshot München. Rough edges and corners, stairs and steps, as well as walls and floors were all incorporated into the fonts and lent these a rugged, striking character. Defining certain fonts merely through taped-up outlines was a particularly exciting experiment. These are abrasive and vivacious, appropriate to the material. Whole words or sentences were taped as well as individual letters, which were later digitalised as fonts. The project was sponsored by Pattex with Pattex Power Tape.

Designers: Lars Harmsen

Publisher: Volcano Type

Foundry: Volcano Type

Design Owner: Volcano Type

MyFonts debut: Feb 4, 2007

TapeType

About Volcano Type

Volcano Type is a independent font foundry based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The first course: a fast food youthfulness that was served for the first time in 1996. An earthy dish, created by chance, with thirteen organic fonts. Quickly whisked up and devoured. It rarely took more than a few days from sketch to use/digestion by the project. Uncouth forms, erupted from the bowels of the earth. Shattered letters, branded, stressed, humiliated. In order to produce arrogant fonts, far too expressive to last on a page of copy text. Quite indisputably from nature. Still roughly hewn. Raw. Imperfect. The second course formed a strong contrast: tight concept, linear work, disciplined preparation. In most cases the font was formed by a matrix. Digital cool, sober, reduced. Plenty of free scope, like chess: the board is always the same, the moves always different. Classic openings are followed by unfamiliar variants. Competitive games. Finely nuanced movements. Carefully thought out, one masterminded brainchild after another. Dessert: mathematical severity is rounded off and smoothed down. Fonts between digital and analogue. Straightened rivers - the surfaces of our times.

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