S4E3 - A Multiverse of Font Madness

Are we entering an entirely new universe of font genres‽ It's becoming harder and harder to classify genres in typography, and many of the newer releases are just exacerbating that difficulty. Whether it's finding whimsy in your text serifs where it doesn't belong, a dot font that abandons all conscious typographic reality, or a new-fangled approach we're calling a "multi-genre" font, new fonts are as alive and creative and confusing as they've ever been. That is, unless Kyle succeeds at taking us back to Ancient Rome...Links to everything that we discussed in this episode:Sylvain Boyer explains the story behind the Olympic logoOlympic typefaces through historyThe Variable font designed for Nike from Pizza TypefacesGramercy from DinamoGamuth from Production Type NaN Tragedy from NaNColumba from East of RomeScatterplot from Cast Type FoundrySome examples of what we think are "multi-genre":Arsen from TypofounderieNotice from Erkin KaramemetTrust from MCKL TypeArticles about "Infillism":Emigre: Time and Time Again on the Fontstand BlogResponse to this Infillism essay by Klim Type foundry's Kris Sowersby: Welcome to the Infill Font FoundryResponse to these essays by Stephen Coles on Typographica: Rejecting Infillism and Waterfalls of MediocrityAnd we assume that you certainly don't remember that Armour Hot Dog jingleArmour Fonts, the fonts kids love to bite!

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