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Nib-Type [Onur Fatih Yazicigil]

Onur Yazicigil was born and raised in Konya, Turkey, and currently lives in Istanbul. He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey and MFA in Visual Communication Design from Purdue University, Indiana, USA. Currently he teaches Graphic Design and Information Design classes at Sabanci University in Istanbul. Onur's design and research interests include book and poster design, information design, type design and history, and calligraphy and lettering.

He designed Lokum Sans, a humanist sans typeface for display purposes, that is also legible in text sizes. At Google Web Fonts, one can download his Duru Sans (2011, Sorkin Type), which was used in the proceedings and other publications of the International Symposium on Electronic Arts.

His thesis was entitled Humanist San-serif versus Grotesque San-serif.

Typedia link. Google plus link.

In 2009, he set up Nib Type. In 2011, he cofounded ISType (Istanbul Typography Conference), which he has been directing since its foundation. Alternate URL. Speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, where his talk is entitled The lack of Latin typographic heritage and type design in Turkey and at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona, where his talk was entitled Setting up Latin typography in Turkey.

A conversation with Onur Yazicigil.

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