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Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
To give a post-modern interpretation: Comic Sans may be considered a conceptual font not because it was conceived as such by its designer, but because of how people have used it. For instance, it bec…2 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
Mistral, with the glyph that can represent several characters. Now that’s a concept!1 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
Whole lot of conceptual designs in the early days of digital, especially from Emigre and FontFont. Extra points if the name nails the concept—Fudoni!3 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
In conceptual art, the idea is more important than the execution. Applying the same distinction to fonts may not work quite so well, but at least, if the basic idea of the font, its sine qua non, can…2 -
Re: What are the great conceptual fonts?
I can’t say whether they are “great” or not, but many of my original typeface designs are based on formal design concepts. For instance: Panoptica is “unicase + monowidth” Bodoni Egyptian: historical…4
