font_foundry: Emigre

Backspacer

Backspacer font

Years ago, by happenstance, designers Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly found an old decrepit typewriter in an abandoned lot with tall grass in Brooklyn. They kept it around their apartment for two years. Then...

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...

Vista Sans

Vista Sans font

“The concept for Vista began when I sketched a few characters in a notebook while staying in Sumatra on a one month holiday. I wanted to design a typeface for text and display that...

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...