New Renaissance
New Renaissance is a modernized old style design based on generous proportions and clean, crisp lines. A ‘New Renaissance’ for the 21st century, New Renaissance makes for easy reading and looks good in both...
font_designer: Alex Kaczun
Shockwave
I’m always experimenting with new ideas for display fonts. I took the inside counter of a capital ‘O’, divided it into quarters, and applied an outline stroke to all the elements. By removing two...
Switched On
Switched On and Switched Off where two fonts developed by placing points on a pre-defined square grid template. The experiment was to explore all the variations possible by just using straight connecting lines on...
Swordtail
A friend bought me a Chinese calligraphic brush set in a beautifully decorated box. I started to letter the alphabet on parchment, in my own hand, using quick strokes and found the resulting script...
Golum
Deep in the bowels of the earth a tortured creature tries to mimic the writings of mankind. It labors long and hard carving the letter forms on the walls of its cave. Many years...
Beatnik
I was working at Bozell Worldwide, an advertising agency, on their yearly promotional pitch. An art director was looking for a condensed informal headline treatment to be used on one of the new ad...
Contax
In the advertising industry, I was often asked to supply the art directors with ideas for a san serif type design that was not the standard Helvetica or Univers. They wanted a fresh new...
Big Boy
I have always wanted to create the world’s biggest and heaviest font. I admit that I was visually inspired by contenders like Akimoto, Champ Ultra, Blackoak and Bloque. However, I not only wanted a...
Hippyfreak
Hippyfreak was created by manipulating my Beatnik font. I stretched and distorted the outlines until I got an interesting effect reminiscent of the Hippie generation. It has a cool and hip rhythm and movement....
BottleKaps
Alex Kaczun, originally designed BottleKaps for Linotype-Hell, in 1992, as a QuickDraw GX multi-master font series. A few new GX applications, like ‘Unicorn’, where able to utilize these unique fonts. The GX application allowed...