font_designer: Rian Hughes
Lusta plays with the interchangeability of an inline and an outline, negative and positive space. Often one single character will epitomise the design of a font, and here the S served as the conceptual...
Yolanda, a family of three weights each more florid than the last.
Xenotype is an examination of heavy horizontal weighting and develops ideas underlying 60s and 70s headline faces.
A space-age headline font, Telstar explores a computer-readable sci-fi aesthetic based on an obround lozenge pierced with off-centre holes; the left-right weight switch derives from early optical recognition typefaces.
Straker is named after the beige Nehru-collared commander in Gerry Anderson’s masterpiece, UFO.
Sparrowhawk, a capitals only titling, evokes a suburban English gentility.
Recently the Rogue family was designed as an accompaniment to Paralucent for Loaded, London’s notorious lads-mag that had found its design being cloned by the competition and sought something unique to set it apart.
Radiogram, pure digital bakelite, can be layered – the solid variant can be placed under the striped version to create two-tone effects.