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Follow The Sound Fonts

News · September 8th, 2009 ·

Band font for Follow The Sound festival were designed in collaboration with Jean Baptiste Parre from LPDME. It’s remixes of the Avant Garde font, semi bold, in it’s GPL version: URW Gothic, part of the Ghostscript urw-fonts-1.0.7pre44 package. Valek Filippov version with cyrillics can be downloaded here.

sample_urwgothic

2 fonts were designed: Whisky Jazz and Distilled Spirit, both used in the project to give strange rythm. Please note the M letter which is a nice graffiti inspired trick. (We love it!).

sample_DS_and_WJ

Take them here: whiskyjazzbeta and distilledspirit

They’re raw and unfinished, but correspond to a spontaneous enthousiasm.
It’s beta versions, only the capitals were done. If anybody feels the pleasure of forging other letters, feel welcome!

Black lettrines comes from 19th century font samples.

This work is released under Free Art License.

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  • 1. lauren

    Sep 9, 2009 at 3:11 pm

    Very nice type!