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Zuzana Licko

Zuzana Licko is the co-founder of Emigre, together with her husband Rudy VanderLans. Licko was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1968. She graduated with a degree in graphic communications from U.C. Berkeley in 1984. Her typefaces:

• Base 9 and 12 (1995).
• Base 900 Sans
• Base Monospace (1997).
• Citizen (1986).
• Dogma (1994).
• Elektrix (1989).
• Fairplex (2002).
• Filosofia (1996). This has a unicase version.
• Hypnopaedia
• Journal (1990).
• Lo-Res (1985). Coarse resolution.
• Lunatix (1988).
• Matrix II (2007). A reworking of Matrix (1986).
• Modula Round and Ribbed,
• Modula (1985).
• Mr Eaves Modern, Mr Eaves Sans, Mrs Eaves XL Serif, Mrs Eaves (1996). Mrs Eaves is her best font, a Baskerville. Mrs Eaves XL (2009) is an extension and improvement of Mrs Eaves. Mister Eaves Sans and Mister Eaves Modern (2009, +XL Modern) are explained by them: Mr Eaves was based on the proportions of Mrs Eaves, but Licko took some liberty with its design. One of the main concerns was to avoid creating a typeface that looked like it simply had its serifs cut off. And while it matches Mrs Eaves in weight, color, and armature, Mr Eaves stands as its own typeface with many unique characteristics.
• Narly (1993).
• Oblong (1988). With Rudy VanderLans.
• Program (2013). For programming, with rounded corners.
• Puzzler (2005). A geometric pattern and decoration font.
• Quartet (1992).
• Senator (1988).
• Soda Script (1995). This may have some uses, but I can't think of any.
• Solex Tall Pack (1990).
• Tarzana
• Totally Gothic + Totally Glyphic (1990).
• Triplex (1989).
• Variex (1988). With Rudy VanderLans.
• Whirligig (1994).

Interview by Rhonda Rubinstein. Rudy VanderLans, Zuzana Licko and Mary E. Gray wrote Emigre (The Book): Graphic Design into the Digital Realm (1993, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York). Her work is discussed by William H. Powes (in More from Eastern Europe: Czechoslovakia. Art Direction, vol. 45, pp. 62-63, 1994), Laurie Haycock Makela (in Three New Faces. Design Quarterly, vol. 158, pp. 22-25, 1993), Mike Jones (in Two Colors, one vision. Design, vol. 500, pp. 64-66, 1999) and Patrick Coyne (in Communication Arts, vol. 34, pp. 64-73, 1992).

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