TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Thu Aug 15 18:17:42 EDT 2024
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Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir cofounded MuirMcNeil in 2010. McNeil is a type designer and course leader of the MA in Contemporary Typographic Media at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. Muir, well known for his work as co-founder of 8vo (and co-editor of its type journal, Octavo), is art director at the digital publisher, Outcast Editions. Paul McNeil has designed the McNeil family of blocky display typefaces. He has previously produced designs for Mambo and worked in Sydney, Australia. He was affiliated as a designer with The Australian Type Foundry. In 2012, Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir co-designed FF Three Six (FontShop), a pixel-based stencil and regular typeface family. In 2014, four commercial modular and pixelish typeface families were published, Panopticon (a system of layered 3d geometric typefaces), Intersect, Nine (Metric, Mono) and Interact. In that series, the nine-weight geometric almost-typewriter typeface Nine Mono (monospaced and monoline) stands out. The pixelish typefaces Three Point, Four Point and Ten Point were also done in 2014. The superfamily of pixelish and dot matrix fonts Two followed in 2015. THD Sentient (2017) is an all-capitals monolinear rounded proportionally spaced all caps sans type family in four weights, designed by Tim Hutchinson in collaboration with MuirMcNeil. Designer in 2017 of the geometric stencil typefaces Stem and Rumori. Still in 2017, Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir co-designed the stencil family Five. In 2020, they released the Bauhaus typeface Two Bar Mono. |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |