HOT NEWS - The all new and improved Accelerator is out! The first font foundry where you can buy it is T26. This 2.0 version carries the inofficial name ‘Warp’.
The next foundries where you’ll be able to buy Accelerator will be MyFonts and Veer. I’ll keep you informed about the release on this font blog.
CUSTOM TYPE - Ballet Mechanique, the music-outlet of Jeroen Borrenbergs (36), is live. After a few years of silence the Dutch graphic designer is getting ready to release new tracks. His website is a state of the art peace of artwork, superbly programmed by ComaKid.
For his upcoming promotion Jeroen asked me to create a special font for him. As a co-founder and graphic designer at Stoere Binken Design he creates his own artwork and therefor had some specific wishes. The font should have ’soul’. He gave me some sketches for his logo that I should use as a starting point. The result is a very narrow, round and warm, kinda techno, monocased font called Ballet Mechanique (what else).
HOT NEWS - Finally, in a few days a major update for Accelerator will be released.
Since day one Accelerator is my most sold font. Due to it’s enormous success, many users asked me to do a workover and offer more value for their money. Read more about all the new features and the improvements that make Accelerator even better than before.
FRESH FONT - Encrypted Wallpaper is a font meant to function as legible wallpaper. Gradually, the type resolves itself: the forms appear to be characters, the characters appear to be words, the words appear to be a text. Step by step you’ll be able to decipher the encrypted message hidden within the wallpaper.
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FRESH FONT - Boris Kahl from Volcano Type asked me if I would like to submit a font for their new Bastard book.
The idea behind Bastard was to bring together photographers, writers, illustrators, graphic designers, musicians and typographers to create a solid and unique book that also functions as a work of art. Bastard is all about cultural identity and the development of new things by sampling, mixing and crossing.
Beside pictures from the photographer Christian Ernst and illustrations from Andre Rösler, the new fonts will be presented. Writers all around the world contributed short stories to complete the book.
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Founded by Rene Verkaart in 2004, Characters Font Foundry is an independent Dutch type foundry, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for creative designers. Characters specializes in creating custom typefaces for corporate identities and packaging.
