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“Sans Serious I” by afrojet

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:26 +0000

The ‘Sans Serious’ Series is a group of tribute typefaces meant to honor Dutch designer and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer. Along with Wim Crouwel and Josef Albers, Jurrian Schrofer (1926 - 1990) was among the Bauhaus pioneers of grid-based modular typography and design. Schrofer's work experimented with type, light, and color and focused on mathematical shapes and pattern. From the book ‘Dutch Type’ by Jan Middendorp: “Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily called Sans serious - but this was never his goal. ‘Is it necessary’, he wrote, ‘to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes’ Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms ‘made to measure’ as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, ‘Les textes sociologiques’ from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids.” “In his booklet ‘Letters op maat’ (‘Type made to measure’, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven.” Read more from ‘Dutch Type’. Image from Letters op matt. More images of Jurriaan Schrofer's work on Flickr: Schrofer in Total Design book. Cover for European Journal of Social Psycology Museumjournaal, design Jurriaan Schrofer Die Internationale Avant-Garde Jurriaan Schrofer - Fodor catalog Note: for all fonts in the ‘Sans Serious’ Series, the alphabet is the same for upper and lowercase.

“Hiro” by arkady

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:48:39 +0000

Upper case-to-Lower case proportion changed. Modified A-B-G-K-Q-R-X-Y-f-g-k-3-8-?-(-)-[-]-,-;-‘-’-“-”-'-". Capital T for work with lowercase. NEW!!! Capital numerals. For small numerals as well as for small caps and unicase check Hiro Small.

“Wagemaker” by eaq

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:30:56 +0000

Working from this poster by Crouwel: Wagemaker http://www.vividvormgeving.nl/fotopagina/crouwelc09.htm

“Hiro Small” by arkady

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:30:25 +0000

Upper case is small caps. Lower case is unicase. +alternates: A with lowered bar, L with shorter slab for T, descending J, T without slab for regular L.

“wagemaker outline & alts.” by funk_king

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:08:27 +0000

eag did an exceptional job on wagemaker. this just provides an outline version and some alternates: c, f, h, v, z, lowered the s, added .,?, and ! :)

“Crouwel's PaperCuts” by igorrossi

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:25:42 +0000

A second contribution to the Crouwel's fonts replicas. This one was also inspired by a poster, for an exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (picture in the comments section). I thought it had never been reproduced before, until I came across edgar fernhout by funk_king. Next time I'll search on Fonstruct before I start a new font but, well, we have both good taste... I take the opportunity to thank the fonstructors who introduced me to Crouwel's work.

“kalender 1976” by funk_king

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:43:19 +0000

full alphabet based on wim crouwel's kalendar 1976.

“wagemaker mixed” by funk_king

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:13:44 +0000

“fs Nachahmung Block Serif” by thalamic

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:42:51 +0000

The 'why not' version...with a guentersen style heart at the dagger.

“edgar fernhout” by funk_king

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:31:15 +0000

my wim crouwel tribute series. inspired by the poster.