Type design notes
Some works and some thoughts on type design and typography.
9 April 2022
One more from the archive. A slim brochure, wrapped in a warm grey soft cover, published on the occasion of Paul Renner’s 125th birthday which was celebrated with a small exhibition in Wernigerode in 2003.
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12 June 2021
Somehow I managed to miss this tradition of students and teachers.
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15 January 2021
Grotext™,
Litteratra®,
Tiptoe™ constitute our first trilogy of typefaces, embodying our theory of good typography and type, some aspects of which we covered in a series of notes.
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10 March 2020
Kerl™ lending his face to exhibition and catalog dedicated to post-war photographer Toni Schneiders.
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31 October 2019
Litteratra® auf der Isar Alm zum Gartl in München:
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7 June 2019
Refined the Chanel and CC logos as well as the mode house’s iconic display typeface. Designed a new text typeface whose italic style, almost fifteen years later, got featured prominently now.
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25 October 2018
Litteratra® as title and headline typeface for the board game
Arcadia Quest, spotted at the Spiel ’18 fair in Essen today.
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19 October 2017
Grotext™ on and in Jenny Gal-Or’s & Eran Gal-Or’s book
Electric Trees.
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25 October 2015
Designed a mechanism that automatically jumbles up different-width letter variants – which mechanism constitutes the heart of The New School’s new identity designed by Paula Scher.
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7 November 2019
Litteratra® heading hypothetical
The Amazon Post:
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11 January 2013
Slipcase cover for William Eggleston’s
Los Alamos Revisited.
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11 February 2012
Fraktur letters which I designed for the Brill typeface.
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20 December 2011
Tiptoe™ accompanies Frans Masareel’s woodcuts in new editions of
La Ville and
Mon Livre d’heures.
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11 November 2011
Slipcase cover for William Eggleston’s
Chromes.
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25 October 2011
The gilded lettering on the front side of the Opera in Paris features an interesting inconsistency, differently constructed O and Q.
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6 October 2010
Giovanni de Faccio’s and Lui Karner’s df Rialto dancing with DecoType’s Naskh in Robert Bringhurst’s
Everywhere Being is Dancing.
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10 September 2010
A little KLTF discount coupon, nicely printed by Letterpress 77, in the ATypI 2010 goodie bag.
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12 August 2010
Tiptoe™,
Litteratra®, and
Grotext™ in
Typodarium 2010.
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31 October 2008
Not about type design, yet:
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23 July 2007
Not about type design, strictly speaking, but about digital typography: about WPF and ‘flow documents’.
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3 May 2007
An early version of
Grotext™ on and in Christoph Heuer’s comic adaptation of Klaus Kordon’s
Der erste Frühling.
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11 October 2006
Litteratra® on the impressive banner for ATypI 2006 Lisbon at the Faculdade de Belas Artes.
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7 September 2005
Spacing Issues is s text on fine typographic spacing and the merits of spacing punctuation marks generously. Since English speaking typographers claim that this may be ok for European but definitely not British or American typography, I try to show that until just a few decades ago, punctuation marks indeed were spaced in both British and American books.
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1 May 1998
Customized Digital Books on Demand / Issues in the Creation of a Flexible Document Format suggests a document format which combines the typographic finesse of PDF and the flexibility of HTML/CSS. The article can be found in
Visible Language, 32.2, Rhode Island, 1998, pp 128–149.
(Some ten years later, Microsoft’s WPF appeared to be
my dream come true, if only for a while as it appears to have been dropped in favor of HTML5/CSS3.)
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© Karsten Lücke
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