kris
20.Aug.2004 11.12pm
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Has anyone got a pdf speciman of Martin Majoor's Telefont? Or a link? Or a decent scan? Very interested as of late. Thanks!

kris.

I have the Amsterdam Telephone guide. Give me your address and I gonna send some pages.

Regards.


For the benefit of others, here's a rough scan sent to me by Karel van der Waarde a while back:
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/Telefont.gif

You can also see Telefont in the book "Haagse Letters".

Also:
Apparently there was coverage of it in an issue of "Typographic" by the Society of Typographic Designers: issue 38-39, Spring/Summer 1990. This issue also covers three other phone book typefaces: Colin Banks about the British books, Jolijn van de Wouw about the Dutch books (1980s), and Ian McLaren about the French telephone book on Viditel (a precursor of the web).

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To me, Telefont is a nice design (except for that frivolous "f"), but it's missing trapping.
The explanation I've heard of why that's the case is that it was a rush job.

hhp


There's a sample of Telefont (List & Text) in a article at Typotheque:
"My type design philosophy" by Martin Majoor himself.



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Give me your address and I gonna send some pages.



Last time I met Martin he was handing out actual pages torn out of the phone book
as a promotion for the face. Which was pretty cool. I still must have mine somewhere
in my archives. Though I like the face, I agree about the trapping Hrant.