Karloff

Peter Biľaks neue Schrift Karloff ist ein Experiment zwischen einer klassizistischen Antiqua und einer Version mit umgekehrten Kontrast, die in der Summe eine neutrale Slab Serif ergibt.

Pressetext: Karloff explores the idea of irreconcilable differences, how two extremes could be combined into a coherent whole.

At the start we looked at the high-contrast Didone typefaces which are considered by many as some of the most beautiful in existence, and the eccentric “Italian”, reversed-contrast typeface was designed to deliberately attract readers’ attention by defying their expectations. No other style in the history of typography has provoked such negative reactions as the Italian.

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Karloff, the result of this project, connects the high contrast Modern type of Bodoni and Didot with the monstrous Italians. The difference between the attractive and repulsive forms lies in a single design parameter, the contrast between the thick and the thin.

Having designed two diametrically opposite versions, we undertook a genetic experiment with the offspring of the beauty and the beast, interpolation of the two extremes, which produced a surprisingly neutral low contrast version.

Karloff:

Foundry: Typotheque
Designer: Peter Biľak
Veröffentlicht: 2012
Format: Opentype
Schnitte: 14  
Preis: pro Schnitt 90 €, Karloff Family 500 € 

Artikel zur Entstehung der Karloff auf www.ilovetypography.com

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