Jung-Lee Type Foundry

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Jung-Lee Type Foundry [Jungmyung Lee] The Jung-Lee Type Foundry was set up by Jungmyung Lee and Karel Martens in Amsterdam, ca. 2016. Karel Martens is an award-winning typography and type design teacher in Arnhem, and Jung-Lee has been designing type at Helsinki Type Studio, where she published Scarla and Bastard Semibold (2012). Lee and Martens co-designed Jungka (2013-2016), a sans typeface motivated as follows: We wanted to make a grotesk font positioned somewhere between Akzidenz grotesk, Helvetica and Univers---not as dry and distant as Univers, but devoid of the quirky uniformity of Helvetica. Jungka is more reminiscent of Akzidenz Grotesk than the other two typefaces. Other typefaces include Impact Nieuw (2012-2016), Vlees Sans (2016), Red Dawn (2016), Suomi 100 (2015: Suomi 100-Groteski and Suomi 100-Antiikva were designed for Finland's 100th birthday). In 2018, Karel Martens and Jungmyung Lee released Pirelli. They write: Pirelli is a revival of an anonymous grotesk typeface that Karel Martens once came across. Its mostly horizontal and vertical features with a mono-line structure and an absence of flourishes give it a concise expression. Yet, it has the distinctive motif of unusually high-waisted capitals, visible in all letters with bars, such as E, F, and P. This feature gives Pirelli the atmosphere of earlier Art Nouveau and Secessionist lettering.	EXTERNAL LINKS Jung-Lee Type Foundry MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ The Finnish type scene ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿