![]() The 20 years Pierre Huyghebaert’s desire to be produce more easily 20th century font revivals based on cared vectorization. It turn the simplest design into a complicated process involving Fontforge, Subversion, Scribus Python scripter, PoDoFo, glue and good wills… This system is semi-automated process of scanning of cardboard-cuted dingbats and inclusion of these shape in a collaborative font. An osp installation system called Nancy, deploying the Dingbats Liberation Fest at the gallery My.Monkey in Nancy, France and then at Make-Art Festival in Poitiers, France. *These two persons partly financed fonzie’s development. It has been developed and used to produced a lettering font for Manu Arenas via Francois Dispaux* and the Nemoto font for an Eve Deluze*’s lettering job. The need for a convenient way to produce handdrawn fonts for translated version of comics, using Opentype features to automatically switch between different versions of each glyph that try to emulate variations typical of hand drawn lettering. * Fonzie has been develop by Pierre Marchand after a combined push between, among others : The oblique versions was simply slanted on the fly. ![]() Some testing and fine-tuning was done by Pierre Marchand, Delphine Platteeuw and Pierre Huyghebaert in FontForge and the font was ready, in a finished state enough to typeset the book. ufo font format as a working format, and an OpenType as output. These huge bitmaps were processed with appropriate potrace settings by the Fonzie software* through a. Suddenly, the 286 pages book jumped out of the ice!ĭifferent scans were assembled by Grégoire Vigneron following different grids. So we laid out the publication with the standard Univers family, and replaced it at the last moment with our version. We were not sure that we’ll have the time to finish the fonts in time before having to send the pdf file to the printer. Along with a free, open and libre version!Ī book about contemporary architecture in Wallonia and Brussels provided an ass-kicking opportunity. As if it was really tempted, trying to provide a beautiful warm up to this old modernist classical. In the 1988 book ‘Fluxus Codex’, kindly given to Pierre Huyghebaert by Sylvie Eyberg, the body text is typeset in a charmingly rounded and dancing Univers that seems to smile playfully at its dry swiss creator. More precisely in this case, George Maciunas of the Fluxus group used an IBM composer (probably a Selectric typewriter) for most of his own work, and as a former designer, for all Fluxus work. Some of Univers Else beautiful features are: round angles, floating baselines, erratic kerning. ![]() The shapes of Univers Else were obtained from scanning printed textpages that were optically composed by cheap phototypesetting machines in the sixties and seventies. Univers Else is an experiment, a first attempt to escape the post ’80 era of geometrical purity that is so typical of Postscript vector based font drawing. ![]()
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