Zuzana Licko

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Zuzana Licko Zuzana Licko is the co-founder of Emigre, together with her husband Rudy VanderLans. Licko was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1968. She graduated with a degree in graphic communications from U.C. Berkeley in 1984. Her fonts: Lo-Res "Coarse Resolution" (1985), Modula (1985), Citizen (1986), Matrix (1986), Matrix II (2007, a reworking of Matrix in 18 styles), Matrix II Display (2007, a further 31 styles), Lunatix (1988), Oblong (1988, with Rudy VanderLans), Senator (1988), Variex (1988) with Rudy VanderLans), Elektrix (1989), Triplex Roman (1989), Totally Gothic (1990), Journal (1990), Tall Pack (1990), Quartet (1992), Narly (1993), Dogma (1994), Whirligig (1994), Base 9&12 (1995), Soda Script (1995: this may have some uses, but I can't think of any), Mrs Eaves (1996, her best font, a Baskerville), Mrs Eaves XL (2009, an extension and improvement of Mrs Eaves), Mister Eaves Sans and Mister Eaves Modern (2009, +XL Modern) [from their blurb: Mr Eaves was based on the proportions of Mrs Eaves, but Licko took some liberty with its design. One of the main concerns was to avoid creating a typeface that looked like it simply had its serifs cut off. And while it matches Mrs Eaves in weight, color, and armature, Mr Eaves stands as its own typeface with many unique characteristics---for me, it's an experiment that went partially wrong in the overly curly "z"'s and "r"'s, but as an experiment, it's fine], Filosofia (1996, which has a unicase version), Base Monospace (1997), Hypnopaedia (1997, nice dingbats), Tarzana (1998, an ordinary sans serif), Solex (2000; looks a lot like Scala or Nimbus), Fairplex (2002), and Puzzler (2005, a geometric pattern and decoration font). Many of her fonts are of mediocre quality (Dogma, Senator, Narly and Variex come to mind). Triplex and Filosofia are/were incorrectly kerned. The name Solex infringes on the trademark of the motorbike "Solex" (sold to Yamaha, and now produced by the Hungarian company "Impex"). The name Journal is the same as that of Phil Martin's Journal, which was made in 1987 (see here). At some point, she made a pixel font, PixelsDream, but I do not know if it was ever published. In 2013, she designed the rounded sans family Program OT. Interview by Rhonda Rubinstein. Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko and Mary E. Gray wrote Emigre (The Book): Graphic Design into the Digital Realm (1993, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York). Her work is discussed by William H. Powes (in More from Eastern Europe: Czechoslovakia. Art Direction, vol. 45, pp. 62-63, 1994), Laurie Haycock Makela (in Three New Faces. Design Quarterly, vol. 158, pp. 22-25, 1993), Mike Jones (in Two Colors, one vision. Design, vol. 500, pp. 64-66, 1999) and Patrick Coyne (in Communication Arts, vol. 34, pp. 64-73, 1992). FontShop link. Klingspor link. View Zuzana Licko's typefaces.	EXTERNAL LINKS Zuzana Licko [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Type design in Czechia ⦿ Unicase type design ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ Baskerville ⦿