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One is Filosofia, designed in 1996 by Zuzana Licko and published by Emigre. I’m a huge fan of Licko’s designs; they feel to me like avatars of an age. I also love the fact that Emigre funded its iconic magazine with the sale of digital fonts: one of the all-time great cross-subsidies. Another is Trade Gothic Next, a 2008 revi­sion by Akira Kobayashi and Tom Grace of Jackson Burke’s 1947 design. I love fonts of this style, called “grotesque”. It was years ago that I learned the Star Wars opening crawl is set in, of all things, News Gothic; that’s what cracked it open for me. Headlines are set in Eska­pade Fraktur, designed in 2012 by Alisa Nowak. I think this font is a perfect modern blackletter, partic­i­pating in the style’s slow but steady redemption. Update: I’m currently setting head­lines in Corfe, designed by Simon Walker. I have been totally locked into Eska­pade for years, and not for lack of trying alternatives; it’s just that every other type­face has looked WRONG, somehow. T

Robin Sloan's colophon Colophon Matrices for Grosses Capitales Extraordinaires, Claude Garamond, ca. 1876 --> Typographical This web­site uses a few dif­ferent fonts: One is Filosofia , designed in 1996 by Zuzana Licko and pub­lished by Emigre. I’m a huge fan of Licko’s designs; they feel to me like avatars of an age . I also love the fact that Emigre funded its iconic magazine with the sale of dig­ital fonts: one of the all-time great cross-subsidies. Another is Trade Gothic Next , a 2008 revi­sion by Akira Kobayashi and Tom Grace of Jackson Burke’s 1947 design. I love fon

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