Studio Hannes Famira (or: Famira Fonts)

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Studio Hannes Famira (or: Famira Fonts) [Hannes Famira] Hannes Famira, who runs Studio Hannes Famira, was born in Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany in 1966. Hannes Famira studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague in the Netherlands. He worked as a type designer in the Hague and used to work at Buro Petr van Blokland. Hannes started his own design studio Das Kombinat in 1999 and the Kombinat-Typefounders in 2001, and renamed it FamiraFonts in 2016. He taught various typography and typedesign classes at the SfG, School for Design in Basel (CH), at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, at the New Jersey City University, at the City University of New York, at Rutgers University, at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen (HAWK), at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, at The Cooper Union, and at SVA the School of Visual Arts. He is presently based in Brooklyn, NY. Typefaces by Famira include FF Blocker, FF Mutilated, H-Stamp, Tieshy, Bubblejet on Steroids, Plantijn, Humiliated, Kugelkopf Letter, Hernard, MaryPason. He also doescustom font work. At Kombinat Typefounders, he designed InterFamily (Interpol Sans, Interpol Correspondence, and Interpol Serif, 1992: zuinig or thrifty almost condensed typefaces), ScanLine Bundle (which includes the nice display font Mary Pason), H-Stamp, FF Blocker, Sonar Sans (2011, mixing gei=ometric and humanistic elements), JC Corrido (2001, letterpress emulation), JC Tieshy (1993, grunge), JC Bubblejet on Steroids (1992, grunge, based on cardboard box prints), and JC Kugelkopf (1996: an old typewriter font based on the IBM Selectric type ball). The letters JC stand for the Jetsam Collection. He explains the Futura-like Sonar Sans: Sonar is the attempt to marry the rule of geometric, historical form with the forgiving, human expression of early gothic typefaces. In fact, nothing about this typeface is truly symmetrical. The geometric nature of the underlying model merely served as a starting point to find the shapes of a low contrast expansion typeface. Through Sonar it seems that I have finally made peace with the Geometric Sans. Famira on Interpol Sans: it is a robust, low contrast typefaces designed for legibility in low resolution situations. It performs particularly well on media like television and computer screens or in projections and on lightboxes. FontShop link. Adobe link. Type network link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Studio Hannes Famira (or: Famira Fonts) [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Letterpress ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿