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TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Thu Sep 10 13:19:24 EDT 2015
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Typoforge
[Blazej Ostoja Lniski]
Blazej Ostoja Lniski (b. 1974, Czersk, Poland) specializes in painting and lithography. From 1994 until 1999, he studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at he Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He founded the typefoundry Typoforge. Creator of Merlo (2014, inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa; followed in 2015 by Merlo Round), Cervo (2014, a simple almost heartless sans that was inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa that appeared from 1960 until 1973 in Poland), Toppo (2014, a letterpress emulation family inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa), Pekora and Pekora Slab (2014: inspired by a You And Me Monthly published by National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa (Poland) between May 1960 and December 1973), Rospi Clean (2014: inspired by the weekly Tygodnik Ilustrowany from 1933), Rospo Wood (2014: a worn letterpress typeface inspired by the weekly Tygodnik Ilustrowany (1933)), Lupo (2014), Kapra (2014) and Bobbin and Bobbin Cyrillic (2014, letterpress style), which were inspired by You And Me Monthly published by the (Polish) National Magazines Publisher RSW Prasa which was active from 1960 until 1973. Kapra is beautiful---it has some of the masculinity of Impact and the naïveté of wood type. Other typefaces by him in 2014 include Skuul (a desperate cold war font inspired by a Letraset font from 2981), Blezja (inspired by a metal tin dated 1907, Potsdam), Greta (a roman typeface based on a prayer book from 1888), and Kleks (grunge typeface inspired by vernacular typegraphy in Potsdam). |
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