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Michael Harvey
Stonecutter and renowned carver (b. 1931, d. 2013), cyclist, and type designer. Michael was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Typography&Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, and is the author of several books on the lettering arts. CV and picture. He worked from his studio in Bridport (Dorset). At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, he analyzed the work of Frederic Goudy, Hermann Zapf, Eric Gill, Georg Trump, and Jan van Krimpen, and took the listener from analog to digital. Obituary by Yves Peters, who quotes Sumner Stone: We will miss the presence of his marvelous big smile and the twinkle in his eye that went with it. That twinkle always seemed to be there above his ruddy cheeks and one quickly learned that it was a true transmission of his inner state. He was a tall leprechaun, full of laughter. He had a subtle and perennial sense of humor and just being in his presence lifted you up. He could float on the jazz piano clouds of Ellington and Strayhorn, and named typefaces after each of them. He was also a serious thinker, a scholar, and always ready to engage in a discussion of the finer points. His achievements in the lettering arts are numerous and numinous. By any measure he was prolific. He carved letters in stone and wood, drew them for hundreds of book jackets, wrote books about them, taught them to graduate students, and made them into typefaces that ranged from goofy to sublime. He was a true master in every respect. Klingspor link. FontShop link. In 2001, he and Andy Benedek founded Fine Fonts, an independent digital type foundry in Cheltenham, UK. His typefaces: - Aesop Script (Fine Fonts).
- Andreas (1996), an outline font, and Moonglow , an all-caps typeface, two stone-cutting fonts published by Adobe.
- Balthasar (2002, Fine Fonts).
- Braff (2003, Agfa and later, Fine Fonts).
- Conga Brava MM, a fluid stencil font published by Adobe.
- DTL Unico. An extensive all-purpose family at the Dutch Type Library.
- Ellington (1990) and Strayhorn (1995), both at Monotype.
- Fine Gothic (blackletter).
- Frieze (Andy Benedek and Michael Harvey, Fine Fonts). The original font dates from ca. 1990. They explain: The origin of this font was a frieze in the RAF Chapel in Westminster Abbey which Michael Harvey was commissioned to design and create. It was comprised of the names of the top brass in Bomber Command, namely Dowding, Harris, Newall, Tedder, Portal and Douglas. The Brief was to cut the letters in bronze and guild them. Instead, they were cut in perspex and guilded. Some twenty years later, the missing upper-case letters were drawn together with the lower-case letters and Frieze, the font, was born.
- Marceta Uncial (Fine Fonts).
- Mentor (Fine Fonts).
- The multiple master Mezz at Adobe.
- Quirky (Fine Fonts).
- Ruskin (2008, Andy Benedek and Michael Harvey, Fine Fonts). This display serif typeface was originally created as a commission for Michael Harvey to design a signage font for the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh.
- Songlines (Fine Fonts).
- Studz (at Adobe).
- Tisdall Script (Fine Fonts).
- Victoriana (2002, Andy Benedek and Michael Harvey, Fine Fonts). A Victorian typeface named after cyclist Victoria Pendleton.
- Zephyr (at Ludlow).
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EXTERNAL LINKS
Michael Harvey
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Klingspor Museum page
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INTERNAL LINKS
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Victorian typefaces ⦿
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Eric Gill and his typefaces ⦿
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