Neville Brody and his many Type Faces
Throughout Neville Brody’s life he has shown that truly creative and different high quality fonts can still become classics.
Brody was widley known through his highly innovative ideas on incorporating and combining typefaces into design, he began designing his own typefaces, thus opening the way for the advent of digital type design.
Three of his most popular types are listed below:
Insignia was designed as a headline for “Arena” magazine in 1986, and released as a font in 1989. Insignia has the basic forms of constructed grotesque fonts and was influenced by the New Typography of the Bauhaus during the 1930s. Insignia's monoline, round-and-sharp forms suggest technology and progress, it is recognizable as one of the modern, cutting-edge classics of the computer era. An alternate version of this font has half-serifs on the E, F, and Z; squeezed bowls on the P and R; a wider J; and an S made from protractor shaped parts.
Industria First was designed for a magazine called “The Face”; Industria was released as a font in 1989. Industria is a condensed sans serif with abbreviated, essential forms. It has a systemized mechanical structure of straight strokes with rounded outer corners and rectangular counter spaces.
One of Brody’s magazines,“Fuse” is a regularly published collection of experimental typefaces and posters which challenges the boundaries between typography and graphic design.
Brody also released about thirty three FontFont typefaces, adding to what may be the worlds largest collection of original, contemporary typefaces. Styles range from tasteful, high-quality text faces to distinctive display fonts that set new typographic trends:
- FF Dirty Seven One
- FF Dirty Seven Two
- FF Gothic One Two Condensed
- FF Gothic Two One
- FF Gothic Two Two
- FF Harlem
- FF Harlem Slang
- FF Pop Led
- FF Pop Pop
- FF Tokyo One
- FF Tokyo One Solid
- FF Tokyo Two
- FF Tokyo Two Solid
- FF Typeface Four One
- FF Typeface Four Two
- FF Typeface Seven
- FF Typeface Six
- FF World One
- FF World Three
- FF World Two
- FF Dirty Six One
- FF Dirty Three
- FF Dome Headline
- FF Dome Text
- FF Gothic One One
- FF Gothic One One Condensed
- FF Gothic One Two
Today his unusual computer-generated designs receive a great deal of recognition; he continues to create his unique and striking digital typefaces.
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