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Favorite Constructivist Typefaces
Posted by Miss Tiffany in
13 Mar 2006 — 11:12am
13 Mar 2006 — 11:12am
Every designer probably has at least one typeface inspired by the Constructivist movement (could also be De Stijl). Share?
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13 Mar 2006 — 11:16am
(I've searched Typophile and have looked through those threads. I'm just hoping for some new ideas.)
13 Mar 2006 — 11:25am
El Lissitzky
13 Mar 2006 — 11:48am
Tiff, when first starting to design types, it makes sense to start with constructed types, as they are easy. They are to type designers as "Smoke on the Water" is to guitarists.
13 Mar 2006 — 11:59am
when first starting to design types, it makes sense to start with constructed types
Speaking of which, I have a little constructivist type which will come out with Volcano Type any day now. Should appear on MyFonts.com, too.
Are you looking for a constructivist face ;-)
13 Mar 2006 — 12:01pm
Here's my favorite from 1882...
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~shocker/FemInv/patgifs/257630/01.jpg
Cheers, Si
13 Mar 2006 — 12:23pm
I played around with something like that once… I saw lettering in a German church made our of simple, repeated shapes like that. I tried to digitize it, but it just wasn't the same.
13 Mar 2006 — 12:31pm
Architectuur is a recent commercial release of mine, based on the work of H. Th. Wijdeveld, of Wendingen fame.
For zero dollars, you can check out De Stencil, a freeware font also based on authentic references.
13 Mar 2006 — 12:53pm
expanded opentype soon
http://www.p22.com/products/constructivist.html
drinkware now
http://www.p22.com/products/mugs.html
13 Mar 2006 — 12:53pm
Tiff,
Are you looking for historic Constructivist fonts or just fonts that have been constructed or done in the intended style of geometric construction? Many Da Da fonts were actually not constructed.
ChrisL
13 Mar 2006 — 12:54pm
Old Nick,
I like your Architecture face!
ChrisL
13 Mar 2006 — 9:14pm
14 Mar 2006 — 9:10am
P22 DeStijl is a good one too:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/p22/destijl/
ChrisL
15 Mar 2006 — 5:03pm
might not be the first thing you think of when you think constructivist but…
http://www.stormtype.com/penta.html
there's also…
http://www.stormtype.com/politica.html
18 Mar 2006 — 2:04am
definitly love me some some El Lisitskii.
these Bruno Monguzzi typo-based posters are fantastic:
http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex42_mon/ex42_mon.htm
21 Mar 2006 — 7:46am
two personal inspirations:
- josef albers
- the constructed alphabets of Douglas R. Hofstadter (The debunker of Knuth's Meta-Font once gave a talk at Cooper Union and talked about his investigations of things graphic)
plus http://www.incipit.com/typefaces2.html (which is overdue for OT)
21 Mar 2006 — 10:04am
P22 has a collection called the "Modernist Collection"
http://www.p22.com/products/Modernistpack.html
which has the Albers and 24 other fonts.
ChrisL
21 Mar 2006 — 10:13am
Has Tiff ever come back to this thread to see what everyone has "shared"?
:-)
ChrisL
21 Mar 2006 — 12:23pm
Yes. I have been watching. :^) Thank you!! (Thanks Chris for keepin' me real.)
I'm just disappointed in the typeface that my clients ended up choosing. Oh well. This is a great resource thread anyway. :^)
24 Mar 2006 — 4:16am
Hello people out there, I'm new to this site but I would really appreciate some help. Ive been searching for an actual constructivst typeface, (not a modern version) but a true old one. Could anyone tell me where to look for one of these. Any help at all would be most appreciated! Cheers.
24 Mar 2006 — 4:18am
oops, spelt constructivist wrong!
24 Mar 2006 — 5:49am
Little Lady,
I am not sure what you mean by "Actual" if you want something in digital form? Or are you looking for letterpress type (wood or metal)?
I have just finished designing a Constructivist type based on a 1923 Weimar Bauhaus poster. I attempted to make a faithfull version but it was done 2 days ago so it isn't exactly "a true old one"--I can post a PDF sample when I get home this evening.
Otherwise, the modern versions mentioned above may suit your needs. The "Modernist Pack" from P22 has numerous styles to choose from.
ChrisL
24 Mar 2006 — 10:12pm
I tried to post a PDF of my new bauhaus typeface in the critique area:
http://typophile.com/node/18796
It wouldn't let me so all you will see there is the PNG file for now.
ChrisL