name

Jakob Runge (jakob_runge)

country

germany

university

FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt

department

Design

university address

Muenzstrasse 12
97070 Wuerzburg

university country

germany

url

http://gestaltung.fh-wuerzburg.de

design-student → type-&-graphicdesign

id

0011966

title

TypExperimente

professor(s)

Prof. Gertrud Nolte, Prof. Charly Frech

rank

136

tags

typography type design poster design

year of making

2010

project url

http://26plus-zeichen.de/typexperimente/

uploaded

2011-01-24 16:30:33

A typeface’s functionality is always more important than its formal style. Legibility is the highest demand for a typeface's right to exist. However, perfect legibility cannot be defined absolutely. It is throughout an interaction between the viewer's personality, formal font-characteristics and the context of its use...
… What happens, if the difference between type-design and graphic-design can hardly be distinguished anymore? What if every letter turns into a headliner and breaks out of the homogenous system of “best legibility”? In how far can formal design parameters of a typeface be exaggerated or newly combined?
… Seven different fonts have been developed, by joining a scientific-experimental approach, an analogue handmade contention and digital processing. These fonts sample and even break the limits of legibility, respectively. The processes of developing these font types are documented in 7 booklets, which can additionally be folded out as posters, presenting the different types.