Finnish type designer of FF Mister K Pro (2008, FontFont; a winner at Paratype K2009, where it says that the face was co-designed by Jürgen Sanides from Germany), a digital rendering extraordinaire of Franz Kafka's handwriting. Ivo Grabowitsch writes: This meant not only creating hundreds of ligatures - each of them consisting of two, three or even four single characters - but also integrating numerous alternate characters to avoid successions of repeating shapes, in order to lend FF Mister K Pro a more authentic script feel. Furthermore handy OpenType functions were added, for example for stylistic alternatives including hatched text as well as underlining and crossing out. Eventually three completely different single fonts were developed. Besides the normal cut there's also Crossout, which allows for setting extensively crossed out text and Onstage, which clearly looks more extravagant and wriggly. All foreign languages and features included the standard cut alone contains more than 1,500 glyphs.

In 2009, she published FF Mister K Dingbats. FF Mister K Informal (2011) won an award at TDC 2012.

In 2012, Julia published the beautiful handwriting font ALS SyysScript at Art Lebedev Studio.

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Julia Sysmäläinen
 [Designer info]
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ The Finnish type scene ⦿ Kafkaesque typefaces ⦿

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