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Lynne Yun

Lynne Yun is a type designer based in Brooklyn who specializes in lettering and calligraphy. She holds a BFA from School of Visual Arts and a postgraduate certificate in typeface design from Type@Cooper. Lynne has worked with a broad range of clients (including Anheuser-Busch, Samsung, Sherwin-Williams and London Book Review to name a few) and held positions at Apple, Publicis, Deutsch, and was a full-time type designer at Monotype, starting in 2017. Lynne Yun is the founder of the Brooklyn-based studio Space Type Continuum (with Kevin Yeh), which operates at the intersection of type, design, and technology. The studio specializes in creating experiential letterforms of all kinds, from typeface design to generative typography. Speaker at TypeCon 2018. Lynne Yun also made an on-line course called Foundations oof Type Design (2021).

Her typefaces:

• Trade Gothic Display (2017, Monotype). Two multi-layer display styles. Based on Jackson Burke's classic Trade Gothic (1948), and in particular, Trade Gothic Condensed Heavy, Trade Gothic Display adds five embossed, beveled, layerable and colorable styles.
• Constant (2018). A playful didone inspired by a specimen from Constantin in 1834.
• Ampersandist (2018). In the angular calligraphic style that characterizes the work of Oldrich Menhart and Villu Toots.
• Walbaum (2018, Monotype). Walbaum is a reimagined superfamily with 69 total fonts, in five optical sizes. Monotype writes: Walbaum was meticulously crafted by Monotype's Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, and Juan Villanueva to bring Justus Erich Walbaum's high contrast didone style masterpiece to the 21st century. Walbaum has over 600 glyphs with OpenType typographic features like small capitals, old style and lining figures, proportional and tabular figures, fractions and ligatures. Also included in the family are three decorative and ornament fonts. In the font's credits, Lynne Yun is also mentioned.
• Trade Gothic Inline (2018, Linotype).
• HWT Etta (2020, Lynne Yun and Maxime Gau). The HWT Etta font (in East and West versions) is part of the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum's Type Legacy Project.

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Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Multicolor typefaces ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Western fonts ⦿ Wood Type ⦿