Hello,
If you make typefaces, I am just assuming that you listen to music while doing so (hopefully I am not wrong in that intiial assumption). I was wondering what type of music you listen to while making fonts? For me, that is slightly different than what I normally listen to, and different than my work music.
As for me, I listen to mostly 90s and 2000s alternative/rock, and some newer (and older) stuff. It almost all alternative or rock. I also listen to copious amounts of Bastille (Their main song is Pompeii)
For example, I am currently listening to You Get What You Give by New Radicals, and prior to that I was listening to Divide by Bastille.
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If I am listening to music, I tend to prefer Mozart. Occasionally “Thick as a Brick” by Jethro Tull is good (the full album, not just the single).
(This is not the same as my general music-listening preferences.)
If I'm going to listen to music I prefer to do nothing but listen to music. Although I do listen to music sometimes when driving, especially for long trips.
When working on fonts, I either listen to nothing (especially if I'm writing feature code or similar), or I listen to spoken word stuff—podcasts, audiobooks, etc., especially when I'm kerning.
Music varies quite a lot. For some reason, Lana Del Rey is particularly good for kerning. At the moment, I am listening to Lambchop, whom I just discovered.
Post metal
Sludge metal
Kerning playlist has higher BPM.
Ambient pieces like Brian Eno, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie...or that Lo-Fi Girl. I need the mood but not intense emotions that would distract me. From time to time I just use one song that feels convenient and listen to it on repeat. Radio Paradise also.
I remember that while I kerned my last font I used these two videos:
- Carl Reinecke - Flute Concerto, Op. 283 (1908)
- CARLES TREPAT - Teatro Colón A Coruña 2014
This Serbian medieval church music was inspiring while designing some promo images with historical themes for my font Razumec:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEueSZk_g6k
Nicholas Jenson 1470: Obrecht, Janequin, Taverner, Willaert
Francisco Griffo 1495: Gombert
Aldus Manutius 1499: Morales, de Milan, Tallis, Arcadelt
Claude Garamond 1540: Victoria, Caccini, G Gabriel, Sweelinck
Robert Granjon 1570: Monteverdi, Praetorius
Jean Jannon 16??: Schütz, Cavalli, Froberger, Lully, Buxtenhude
Christoffel van Dijk 1648: Charpentier, Corelli, Pachelbel
Nikolas Kis 1686: Bach, D Scarlatti, Handel
William Caslon 1720: Gluck, CPE Bach, Stamitz
Pierre-Simon Fournier 1740: Soler, Haydn
Johann Michael Fleischmann 1745: JC Bach
John Baskerville 1750: Salieri, Bortniansky, Vlementi, Mozart
Richard Austin 1788: Beethoven, Field, Paganini
William Martin 1790: Czerny, Rossini
Firmin Didot 1798: Schubert, Donizetti
Binny & Ronaldson 1800: Berlioz, Mendelssohn
Giambattista Bodoni 1813: Chopin, Schumann, Liszt
Justus Erich Walbaum 1837: Bizet, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky
Wind by Gigi Masin
First Thought Best Thought by Arthur Russell
Partly on Time by Kinloch Nelson
For the more creative/exciting bits, I like loud guitars. Recently:
Domino by Diners
A Distant Call by Sheer Mag
Peace Loving People by Pardoner
Grand Prix by Teenage Fanclub
EGG by Fat Spirit
Fun thread! Nice to see what y'all are listening to.
Handel’s house in London is preserved as a museum, and is worth visiting. It is made available as a practice space for music students, so one sometimes encounters string quartets or similar playing while one walks through the house.
I'm sure there are others too - show off your side-projects!