font_designer: Zuzana Licko

Filosofia

Filosofia font

The Filosofia Regular family is designed for text applications. It is somewhat rugged with reduced contrast to withstand the reduction to text sizes. The Filosofia Grand family is intended for display applications and is...

Lo-Res

Lo-Res font

The Lo-Res family of fonts is a synthesis of pixelated designs, including Emigre’s earlier coarse resolution fonts, as well as bitmap representations of Base 9. It replaces the preexisting Emigre, Emperor, Oakland and Universal...

Puzzler

Puzzler font

With Puzzler, Zuzana Licko revisits and expands upon some of her earlier forays into decoration and geometric constructions of abstract elements. Says Licko: “I’ve always been intrigued by patterns; the abstract dot compositions of...

Triplex

Triplex font

Although initially designed as a rational/geometric font, Triplex developed into one of Zuzana Licko’s most intuitive typeface designs at the time. Its first extensive use was in Emigre magazine #14, a special issue devoted...

Fairplex

Fairplex font

Zuzana Licko’s goal for Fairplex was to create a text face which would achieve legibility by avoiding contrast, especially in the Book weight. As a result of its low contrast, the Fairplex Book weight...

Matrix II

Matrix II font

Matrix II is a complete reworking of the original Matrix type family which was designed by Zuzana Licko in 1986. The redesign, which started in January 2007, was initiated by the need to create...

Mrs Eaves XL Serif

Mrs Eaves XL Serif font

Originally designed in 1996, Mrs Eaves was Zuzana Licko’s first attempt at the design of a traditional typeface. It was styled after Baskerville, the famous transitional serif typeface designed in 1757 by John Baskerville...

Mr Eaves Sans

Mr Eaves Sans font

Mr Eaves is the sans-serif companion to Mrs Eaves, one of Emigre’s classic typeface designs. Created by Zuzana Licko, this 2009 addition to the Emigre Type Library expands the versatility of the original Mrs...