Type design has always been an exacting, highly skilled profession, but that was doubly true in the early days of digital fonts. These faces had to work in highly demanding, challenging environments: CRT monitors, low resolution printers, and in a rapidly evolving newspaper industry. This month we are talking to one of those individuals who tackled the limitations of technology head on. His pioneering techniques, first developed under Wim Crouwel, were later employed by Bitstream and URW, and utilized on road signs and in newsprint, establishing a body of work admired the world over, both for its pragmatic, steely clarity, and its warmth and openness. He has now teamed up with TypeTogether, a foundry run by two of his former students at Reading. It is an honor to welcome Dutch designer Gerard Unger, one of the most original minds in contemporary type design.
Our subject this month is a man with an eye for an unexpected tale and a taste for surprising details. Not unlike his native Sweden’s better known exports, his is a globally focused design practice rooted in Scandinavian heritage. His foundry, MAC Rhino Fonts, has been with MyFonts for just under six months but the story of its name actually predates the emergence of a more famous type of Mac… Meet Stefan Hattenbach, a classically minded type designer with rebellious tendencies.
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