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Geiger

Geiger

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Complete family of 4 fonts: $29.99
Geiger Font Family was designed by Bruno Nadeau and published by WyldType. Geiger contains 4 styles and family package options.

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About Geiger Font Family


Geiger is a geometric typeface inspired by type found in the intros of Commodore 64 games, its attention to the grid and its limited set of building blocks. The design of Geiger respects these criteria to create a sturdy alphabet without diagonals, and loosen its grip on the classic limitations to produce a complete character set worthy of today`s high-resolution displays with a retro touch. The properties of classic computing platforms, like their limited memory and low-resolution displays, required that the designers and programmers of the time devise and use certain techniques to produce interesting visual results. These platforms offered limited sets of default building blocks from which to build more complex graphics and type, and some skilled coders would work around these limitations to produce the unexpected. One of the areas that saw experimental digital type flourish is the Commodore 64 intro scene. The Geiger family includes four styles (regular, oblique, bold and bold oblique), all include common ligatures (fi, ff, ffi, fj, fl, jj, tt, Th, TT) and a few stylistic alternates (K, L). A particular attention was paid to the pattern created by the vertical stem and negative spaces of tightly set text, especially for Geiger Bold. Geiger produces good results at a size of 30pt or more, but we suggest using it at higher display sizes.

Designers: Bruno Nadeau

Publisher: WyldType

Foundry: WyldType

Design Owner: WyldType

MyFonts debut: Mar 24, 2010

Geiger

About WyldType

WyldType is an independent type design firm located in Montréal. After several years experimenting with dynamic digital typography in interactive environments, a need emerged to dig deeper and start crafting the typographic elements at play in our practice. What started as a simple interest in understanding the type design process quickly grew into a passion for letterforms.

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