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Ernie

Ernie

by Jim Ford
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Complete family of 3 fonts: $59.99 USD
Ernie Font Family was designed by Jim Ford and published by Jim Ford. Ernie contains 3 styles and family package options.

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Ernie Complete

3 fonts

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$19.99 USD

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$59.99 USD

About Ernie Font Family


Ernie is a new animated typeface by Jim Ford, intended as a complimentary serif design to Freeman Craw’s fun retro hit, Ad Lib. The serif drawings mimic the behaviors of Ad Lib, on a Clarendon-esque structure. The application of Ad Lib’s behaviors to a serif design highlights it's quirky characteristics; notably in the added contrast, the bending of serifs and the translation to Ernie’s ball terminals. The lowercase g is probably the most extreme example of this "translation." Ernie has a savvy system of text animation built in; with dualing lowercase alphabets, 34 ligatures, and an extensive glossary of custom words, all programmed to automatically make intelligent pseudorandom wordshapes. It's called RMS, aka the Randomagic System. The glossary of “buzz” words is based on the most common and powerful words in marketing and advertising, as well as words that are specific to Ernie’s intended uses.. Additionally, Ernie Alt provides the opposite randomization effects in lowercase text, thus reversing the rhythm of the bounce. Ernie Sorts is a bonus font which includes fun printers fists, expandable banners and other graphic elements. The Ernie character and cartoons were created by Johnny Sampson, as a visualization of the typeface, it's character and it's unique features.

Designers: Jim Ford

Publisher: Jim Ford

Foundry: Jim Ford

Design Owner: Jim Ford

MyFonts debut: Jul 27, 2016

Ernie

About Jim Ford

Jim Ford is a visual artist and designer from Chicago. Jim works predominantly in type design, but includes custom lettering, art and illustration in his growing portfolio. He has designed custom typefaces for agencies, corporations, publishers, software and hardware manufacturers, video games, devices, you name it! In addition to customer-driven work, Jim also has a wealth of original typeface designs, ranging from traditional text faces to innovative display lettering. He studied advertising art direction and graphic design at Columbia College Chicago where he graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design in 2005. While at Columbia, his passion for type started to take root. Jim sought out an internship with Ascender and was hired upon graduation. He was further exposed to every facet of type design and font development at Ascender. In 2013, Jim joined the Monotype studio as a type designer. Jim lives and works in Delavan, WI.

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