Tag: 1980s

1. Goudy Sans

   Designer: Frederic W. Goudy ; Foundry: Lanston Monotype, ITC

   This was one of the first sanserifs to break from the Realist model by opening the aperture and implying a…

2. Wendy LP

   Designer: Garrett Boge ; Foundry: Adobe Systems

   The Wendy family is modeled on an informal script from the 1960s. Garret Boge extended the original weight to a…

3. Papyrus

   Designer: Chris Costello ; Foundry: International Typeface Corporation

   “This unusual roman typeface effectively merges the elegance of a traditional roman letterform with the hand-crafted look of highly skilled…

4. Haas Unica

   Designer: Christian Mengelt, André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind ; Foundry: Haas, Linotype

   Typedesign by Team’77 (André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind), 1977, under contract to Haas Typefoundry, as new sansserif typeface for…

5. Swiss 721

   Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann

   Swiss 721 is a font from Bitstream library. Edouard Hoffmann saw this typeface as an improvement on the late nineteenth…

6. Lucida

   Designer: Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes ; Foundry: Bigelow & Holmes

   

   There are many variants called Lucida, including scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting), serif (Fax, Bright), and sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande,…

7. Signa

   Designer: André Gürtler, Christian Mengelt, Erich Gschwind ; Foundry: Autologic, Bobst Graphic

   Typedesign by Team‘77, 1978, as new sans-serif typeface for Bobst Graphic photo-typsetting, followed by the use for digital-typesetting systems of…

8. Nimrod

   Designer: Robin Nicholas ; Foundry: Monotype