If the Best Seller lists on MyFonts are something of a barometer of trends in typography, then there are two main currents — and they are diametrically opposed. One: the minimalism of cool, clean slab and sans-serif fonts. Two: the delight in exuberance, ornament, cheerful irregularity and all that looks handmade. This month, with summer in the air for many of us, the scale has most definitely tipped towards the latter. It’s May, and our Rising Stars — even the Text Fonts of the month — are bursting with joie de vivre. Enjoy!
Her name does not rhyme with “bike”, but is pronounced “Ool-ree-kah” — a common girls’ name in her native Germany. Born and raised in Berlin, she studied at the University of Applied Sciences in nearby Potsdam, with a short but game-changing intermezzo in Florence, Italy. Four years ago she came to MyFonts with a collection of witty picture fonts; but it was an alphabetic typeface that gave her foundry LiebeFonts (“sweet fonts”) its first hit — LiebeErika was one of our Top Fonts of 2010. Ulrike’s skills are equal parts handicraft and digital savvy, and her fonts are as technically sophisticated as they are charming. Meet the talented Ulrike Wilhelm, in love with letterforms.
Her name does not rhyme with “bike”, but is pronounced “Ool-ree-kah” — a common girls’ name in her native Germany. Born and raised in Berlin, she studied at the University of Applied Sciences in nearby Potsdam, with a short but game-changing intermezzo in Florence, Italy. Four years ago she came to MyFonts with a collection of witty picture fonts; but it was an alphabetic typeface that gave her foundry LiebeFonts (“sweet fonts”) its first hit — LiebeErika was one of our Top Fonts of 2010. Ulrike’s skills are equal parts handicraft and digital savvy, and her fonts are as technically sophisticated as they are charming. Meet the talented Ulrike Wilhelm, in love with letterforms.
freelance illustrator, graphic and type designer based in Torino, Italy. Graduated in 1989 from ITIS G.B. Bodoni – Graphic Arts. From 2003 to 2006 editor and art director for Miele, free independent Italian magazine. Since 2007 teaching at IAAD – Institute of Applied Arts and Design (Communication & Graphic Design Dept.).
Graphic designer graduated from IPEVE (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile) and self-taught type designer. He teaches typography at Universidad Católica de Chile. Francisco is author of the book Educación tipográfica, una introducción a la tipografía, published in Chile in 2004 and then a year later in Argentina. He is one of the founding partners of AGR Diseño and Frescotype. Each studio specialises in font design, information design, and corporate identity design. Some of his most famous typefaces include: Australis, the Gold Prize winning typeface of the Morisawa Awards 2002 International Typeface Design Competition (Tokyo, Japan); Elemental, the 2002 Altazor Awards winning typeface; font families for newspapers such as La Discusión (Chillán), and La Cuarta (Santiago) in collaboration with Rodrigo Ramírez; the typeface for the information system of Santiago Public Transport (Transantiago); the typeface used on Chile road signs.
Her name does not rhyme with “bike”, but is pronounced “Ool-ree-kah” — a common girls’ name in her native Germany. Born and raised in Berlin, she studied at the University of Applied Sciences in nearby Potsdam, with a short but game-changing intermezzo in Florence, Italy. Four years ago she came to MyFonts with a collection of witty picture fonts; but it was an alphabetic typeface that gave her foundry LiebeFonts (“sweet fonts”) its first hit — LiebeErika was one of our Top Fonts of 2010. Ulrike’s skills are equal parts handicraft and digital savvy, and her fonts are as technically sophisticated as they are charming. Meet the talented Ulrike Wilhelm, in love with letterforms.
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