Ockham Lecture Series — Kris Sowersby — There is no such thing as a New Zealand typeface from alphabet fonts design Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 30 min 10 sec ✓ Published: 31-Jul-2018
Description: The British have Gill Sans, the French, Garamond, the Italians, Bodoni, the Swiss, Helvetica. Is there a relationship between a typeface and place? Can a typeface have a regional accent?nnWith a lack of digital typefaces to choose from, and motivated to create a typeface that local designers could use to communicate with rather than reaching for foreign ones, typeface designer Kris Sowersby began investigating a typeface that would be from New Zealand. It was first released in 2007 and was named
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