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TDC Award Mommie selected in the TDC2 2008Posted: 27.02.2008 |
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| Mommie selected in the TDC2 2008 Type Design Competition and is Christian Schwartz personal »Judges Choice« http://www.tdc.org/news/2008Results/Mommie.html In the early 1980s, at the start of my career, I worked in a print shop with classic lead setting. In those days I would study issues of U&lc magazine. What really caught my attention were letterings in the Spencerian style. I’ve been fascinated by this American penmanship tradition ever since. A few years ago I developed a font. Boris Bencic used it when he was redesigning L’Officiel magazine in Paris. I took these initial forms and developed them into the font “Mommie” when I started my own foundry. Although I usually design text typefaces, working on “Mommie” taught me how complex it can be to create a script headline font. Characters need to overlap in harmony and I can’t remember how many versions I did for the caps. The biggest challenge in this process has been to keep it alive and fresh. Because Mommie Regular only workes in very big sizes I have extended the family with a Medium and a Small. Mommie on top of that I am glad to publish MommieBrush The curves of Mommie are so lively. It is worth to transfer them to another stroke. So I designed this brush version. Naturally the Swirl had to be taken away. Although the you can feel the stoke of Mommie the usage will be different. There are 3 weights from Regular to Bold. |
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