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FF Eboy Alternatives

See also: Industrial Sans

Noah Nazir

Last edited July 29, 2018

The typefaces in the FF Eboy family are based on the geometrical/pixel-nature of screen fonts. They were created especially for use on screen/web. Intrepid designers won’t shy away from using them in print, however!

There are three FF Eboy styles: REG, TNT, and EXT. Each one is available in three weights – or rather resolutions. Alpha, the smallest, is based on a five-pixel-high grid, and has been optimized for 8 pt text at a screen resolution of 72 dpi. This is the perfect size for small print. Beta, the medium size, is based on a seven-pixel grid, and is at its best in 12 pt on 72 dpi. Gamma, the largest, is based on a nine-pixel grid and best suited to 16 pt on 72 dpi.

The package also includes a bonus font family – FF Xcreen – which also has three weights: Straight, Linex, and Double. The initial idea was to create a screen font with minimum height. Straight is optimized for 7 px on 72 dpi and the other two are for 14 px on 72 dpi.

Quartan is am industrial, unicase sans serif family, with three weights. The Austrian designer Maria Martina Schmitt developed this series of typefaces for designers to use when setting chunks of text en masse. Being a unicase design, Quartan's letterforms have no ascenders or descenders; lines of text may be stacked virtually on top of one other. This offers a multitude of possibilities for... Read More

On March 20, 1988, Mike Tyson defended his world championship title against challenger Tony Tubbs. The event’s poster was designed by Neville Brody which named the fight’s location: the Tokyo Dome. Full alphabets based on the letters Brody drew by hand for the poster were eventually completed and digitized into ten fonts. These form the FF Dome, FF Tokyo, and FF World series. All typefaces have... Read More

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While a senior in college, Christian Schwartz worked for a clothing company, designing t-shirts and labels. The aesthetic of one of the lines mixed industrial and military looks, which called for a lot of stencil type. He picked up some stencils at a hardware store and digitized the characters, since other companies regularly ripped off prints they designed with readily available fonts. In this... Read More

FF Jigger casts a long shadow, drawn in emulation of type seen from time-to-time on television where the purpose is to differentiate words from moving backgrounds. The fonts are made for headline use and work best in mixed-case settings. The family comes in a round and a square version, both of which are available as shadowed fonts or with separate fore- and backgrounds which can be overlaid... Read More

Silvan Kaesar designed Seedbad after observing the unique sign lettering along the shores of Lake Geneva's bathing area. Seebad's four different settings represent the cutting edge new style of Swiss design, which spans the bridge between modern and contemporary. Containing geometrically forms, Seebad has a narrow base. Some characters (the lowercase "t", for example) display unicase, even... Read More

What became FF TradeMarker was conceived as a “remix” of the Serpentine Bold typeface. After incorporating the proto-design into countless record sleeves, flyers, and logos that he designed, the Berlin-based designer Critzla finished the family and named it FF TradeMarker. This is a typeface for building brand identities. The original Serpentine inspiration – without its vestigial serifs – can... Read More