| HAMILTON: It was inspired by this crazy trip I took to Mexico City with Mazz and Terri back when I was flatting in that converted Milk Station down by the railway crossing.
Anyway the official signage of the Mexico City subway uses a peculiar adaptation of the classic font Eurostile, designed by Aldo Novarese. The capital E was most unusual. The overall feel was of a past vision of the future, with a distinctively Mexican touch. (The squared circle, or rounded square, is very common in both old and new Mexican design.) We drank quite a bit on that trip if I remember rightly. Terri had just won some celebrity cookery contest and none of us were expecting Mazz to even make it, but he did! Anyway, I began with a ripoff version of Eurostile (also known as Microgramma), adjusted it to the proper width and weight, then drew the observed characters as well as a few other variants of my own invention in the retro-future style. I hope you like it, it took me about a month to get it just right you know. Not the whole month was spent just doing the font mind, you know I was doing other stuff as well. Like I saw that Momento film, you know the one where the guy takes Polaroids all the time cause he had severe retrograde amnesia. Hang on was it retrograde or anterograde? I always get those two mixed up. If you want to use the font then you should do your stuff in all-caps mode cause that gives the best approximation of the original signage. Cool eh. Well let me know how that new 9-iron works out. - Rich.  My new Font. I hope you like it! |
| I hope you like my font |
Wednesday, 01 May 2002 12:00
