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last night's travel journal
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Estereo takes its name from a very inventive (and sadly defunct) indie pop band out of Louisianfrancisco. The numerous ornaments included in the character set reflect the band's consistent adherence to unconventional instrumentation and sounds, such as the musical saw, water-filled glasses and audibly mistreated stray animals. I may have made up that last one. Anyway, I was lucky enough to see Estereo numerous times throughout the Bay Area (including what I believe was their second-to-last show) and would like to contribute this typeface to their good natured, understated legacy.
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live! tonight! sold out!!
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i will be all places and all things
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I design typefaces. Sorta. More accurately, I should say that every now and then I'll start sketching out an idea for some kooky new lettering and before I know it I've put an entire alphabet together. Naturally, it occurs to me that a finished set of letters is a big step towards a complete typeface, and that it might be fun to finish it and possibly even release it for others to use. So I start drafting up some plans for the rest of the character set, come up with a suitably pretentious name, and settle in for the long haul.
Then the honeymoon ends. Fast. Unfortunately, as much as I love all things related to typography and type design, a few things always get in the way. For one, a single typeface is only so useful; to really contribute something significant, I'd like to flesh out a complete family with at least a bold weight and corresponding obliques or italics. But that's a shitvat of work, and 9 times out of 10 my attention has drifted off to something else (like cat videos on YouTube) before the thought has even finished crossing my mind.
(Speaking of which.)
Then I consider the idea of kerning and whatever interest I had left in the endeavor is shot straight to hell. In fact, let me clarify my earlier comment about loving all things related to typography and type design: I love all things related to typography and type design except kerning, which is the single most miserable experience a human can endure without literally being on fire. Literally. And this is coming from someone who never exaggerates. I'd rather get a root canal and a vasectomy at the same time. At the DMV. While watching every season of Two and a Half Men simultaneously. While getting a hernia exam from a hobo. I'll go so far as to officially proclaim that I will never create a complete typeface until the day comes when kerning is entirely automated by an army of superintelligent robots (preferably sexy robots, but those clunky square-shaped ones are fine too).
Anyway, I forgot what I was talking about, but here's five specimens and twenty posters to put a handful of those semi-complete typefaces I've made over the years to use. Enjoy!
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