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JLS OverKill™

por Fontry West
Estilos individuales desde $15.00 USD
Familia completa de 13 fuentes: $50.00 USD
La familia tipográfica JLS OverKill fue diseñada por Michael Gene Adkins, James L. Stirling y publicada por Fontry West. JLS OverKill contiene 13 estilos y opciones de paquete familiar. Más información sobre esta familia

Sobre la familia


OverKill Bloque was created in 1991 as a banner logo for a gamers fan newsletter, The OVERKILL Casualty Report. As letterforms were built for various headlines, a font took shape. Just for grins I fleshed out an uppercase and numbers and named it Ultra Bold. Much later, when Mike and I were working on our chiseled race pak, Ultra Bold convexed nicely and fit in with the modern sports look of the font pak. Mike is most at fault for the lowercase! No face should be without a lowercase! Since then, OverKill / Ultra-Bold has made its way onto the covers of two comic books and numerable vehicles and signs. In 2008 I decided to make it more useful for the desktop crowd. I brought back the OverKill name and called the first font in the family, OverKill Bloque. All of the faces in the OverKill family are heavy hitters, designed for poster and display applications. Their shapes are extreme, pushing negative spaces to the max. Bloque is forceful and solid, great for logos. It is a strong headline face for comic and manga covers. More geometric and angular, Champion is a sports font. It will be at home on the field or on the court, adorning varsity fund-raising t-shirts or university / professional team logos. Though not quite rustic or antique, Hammer is a slab-serif, a tough hombre with a country flavor. But don't think of it just in terms of Wild West posters and western-wear logos. Hammer will be stiff competition on Ivy League sweatshirts and other sports imprints. OverKill Stencil builds strong logos for construction and industrial products packaging. And what futuristic sci-fi military would be complete without Stencil markings on its massive war machines? And for a matching worn-and-torn look, Grunge Stencil is a distressed font that conveys a sense of decay and erosion so typical of today's culture. Grunge screams punk posters and underground bands and the products of a misspent youth. Don't just overdo, OverKill.

Diseñadores: Michael Gene Adkins, James L. Stirling

Fundición: Fontry West

MyFonts debut: Dec 23, 2008

JLS OverKill™ is a trademark of Fontry West.

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Before the internet went big, when access was still dial-up, Mike Adkins and James Stirling sat in a room with the song of a vinyl cutter singing in the background. It was summer in Oklahoma, hot and humid, even at night. It was late or early, depending on which direction you were coming from. On the side of a manila envelope was scribbled a word: "Fontry." It was a made-up word to identify the contents. Inside the tattered folder were thoughts and ideas on scraps of paper—sketches of letterforms. Between the two men, who were hanging on to wakefulness with caffeine and stubbornness, there was a discussion, a discourse concerning the future. Pages were pulled from the envelope and spread out to share an idea. Did they have any background in fonts or typography? No. What they had was a feel for letterforms and whatever their instructors at the local university had been able to drum into their heads. That was enough to start. There have been many starts and a lifetime of learning. Not every product has been a success, but a few have found their way into type history. The work of the two men has surfaced in every aspect of human graphic endeavor. There is no medium that has not felt the momentary touch of their creativity. Together, with the manic smile of their mascot, they are The Fontry®.

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