@hardwig

Typographer, type writer, researcher. Editor @FontsInUse. Graphic designer at Kaune & Hardwig, Berlin. He/him. Find me here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/4I2SqQC3YZ

 Berlin, Europe
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Joined November 2009
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Detail of a faded sign reading “Forwarding”, painted in large white sans-serif caps on a brick wall at Wilhelminapier, Rotterdam, taken in October 2012

ALT Detail of a faded sign reading “Forwarding”, painted in large white sans-serif caps on a brick wall at Wilhelminapier, Rotterdam, taken in October 2012

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The Fonts In Use team unanimously condemns the assault on safety, security, and basic humanity continually displayed by Twitter’s new ownership. We loved it here, but can no longer justify engaging in this platform. Find us at typo.social/@FontsInUse and fontsinuse.com.
An collage of designs from fontsinuse.com, including a Dutch 7″ single “Hello, Goodbye” / “I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles, “Hello Summer, Goodbye” book cover by Gollancz, The Guess Who – “Follow Your Daughter Home” / “Bye Bye Babe” single cover, “OUT NOW.” button for the 1971 Vietnam War / Out Now event on the Mall in D.C., “Goodbye Stones” poster by Hijack Your Life, Tanukichan – “So Gone” single cover by Marc Jones, 1970s “Goodbye, Columbus” book cover by Paul Bacon, and 1960s “Goodbye, Columbus” book cover.

ALT An collage of designs from fontsinuse.com, including a Dutch 7″ single “Hello, Goodbye” / “I Am The Walrus” by The Beatles, “Hello Summer, Goodbye” book cover by Gollancz, The Guess Who – “Follow Your Daughter Home” / “Bye Bye Babe” single cover, “OUT NOW.” button for the 1971 Vietnam War / Out Now event on the Mall in D.C., “Goodbye Stones” poster by Hijack Your Life, Tanukichan – “So Gone” single cover by Marc Jones, 1970s “Goodbye, Columbus” book cover by Paul Bacon, and 1960s “Goodbye, Columbus” book cover.

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A little belated, but I'm so honored to have been asked to write the release essay for @frerejones’s incredible new type family Community Gothic that came out earlier this week! Also excited to use the typefaces in some design projects myself soon too... frerejones.com/blog/grit-and…

Grit and Patchwork: Designing Community Gothic

Read the story behind Frere-Jones Type’s latest release.

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Welcome back to Lineto 1.1: LL BIFF, LL Plot, LL Tablettenschrift, and LL Cobra out now on Lineto.com There’s also a most useful update on last year’s LL DMT, to which we added a new weight axis.
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Nick Cooke of @gtypefoundry released a gem of an Art Nouveau typeface. Exentrica is a medley of lettering styles used by Vienna Secession artists like K. Moser and G. Klimt. It comes in Monoline and Contrast variants, each in 5 weights with oodles of alts. g-type.com/fonts/exentrica
Detail of a specimen showing the Exentrica typeface by Nick Cooke, featuring both its Monoline and Contrast styles

ALT Detail of a specimen showing the Exentrica typeface by Nick Cooke, featuring both its Monoline and Contrast styles

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Lots of typefaces with a soft warm feel and 1970s overtones came out in recent years (see fontsinuse.com/sets/10475/so…) Sirenia by @Floodfonts is a mature addition, with cursive details, lots of swash alternates, and a look reminiscent of melting chocolate. floodfonts.com/sirenia/
Specimen for the typeface Sirenia by Felix Braden (Floodfonts, 2022), showing the range of styles from Thin to Black, in roman and italic styles, as well as some of the many swash alternates

ALT Specimen for the typeface Sirenia by Felix Braden (Floodfonts, 2022), showing the range of styles from Thin to Black, in roman and italic styles, as well as some of the many swash alternates

Specimen for the typeface Sirenia by Felix Braden (Floodfonts, 2022), showing a gradient of the weights (Thin to Black), as well as some of the many swash alternates

ALT Specimen for the typeface Sirenia by Felix Braden (Floodfonts, 2022), showing a gradient of the weights (Thin to Black), as well as some of the many swash alternates

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New Sveva fonts available. 40% discount until the end of October. More info: astype.de/sveva #astypefonts #fonts #typography #typedesign #artoftype #sansserif #graphicdesign #字体设计 #書体
Sveva v2 fonts

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I’m giving a free talk next week about all things Franklin Gothic as part of @CooperType & @lubalincenter’s Herb Lubalin Lecture Series. The event will be live in person at @cooperunion and also streaming online. RSVP for free: coopertype.org/event/frankli…
Type@Cooper and The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography present: FRANKLIN GOTHIC GOES ON FOREVER, a free talk by typographer Nick Sherman about the design and lasting influence of a quintessential American typeface. Tuesday, October 24, 2022, 18:30 EDT Live in person at The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY and streaming online. RSVP for free at coopertype.org Since its debut at the beginning of the 20th century from the American Type Founders Company, the Franklin Gothic family of typefaces has played a major role in shaping the visual landscape of the United States. It has proven to be a versatile and timeless design for everything from hardcore punk bands to the US military. This talk by Nick Sherman will cover historical info about Franklin Gothic and its relatives, a thorough examination of its design and usage, plus some personal background about how it became the first typeface he fell in love with, why he thinks it deserves more appreciation, and

ALT Type@Cooper and The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography present: FRANKLIN GOTHIC GOES ON FOREVER, a free talk by typographer Nick Sherman about the design and lasting influence of a quintessential American typeface. Tuesday, October 24, 2022, 18:30 EDT Live in person at The Cooper Union 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY and streaming online. RSVP for free at coopertype.org Since its debut at the beginning of the 20th century from the American Type Founders Company, the Franklin Gothic family of typefaces has played a major role in shaping the visual landscape of the United States. It has proven to be a versatile and timeless design for everything from hardcore punk bands to the US military. This talk by Nick Sherman will cover historical info about Franklin Gothic and its relatives, a thorough examination of its design and usage, plus some personal background about how it became the first typeface he fell in love with, why he thinks it deserves more appreciation, and

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♀🇬🇷 New on the Blog: Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words @MPaganopoulou looks back on Πόλη Γυναικών (Póli Gynaikón – City of Women), the Greek feminist periodical from the 1980s: fontsinuse.com/uses/44785/re…
Covers of the Póly Ginaikón magazine

ALT Covers of the Póly Ginaikón magazine

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Berliners: desk space in shared studio available now! Mitte/Kreuzberg, U8 H.-Heine-Str. Details per DM or mail.
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Contributor Patrick Concannon kicks off October 🎃 with a thorough look at the typography of The Exorcist – both of the 1971 novel and the 1973 movie adaptation: fontsinuse.com/tags/34697/th…
Dust jacket of the first edition of The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Harper & Row, 1971), designed by Frederick Cantor using Weiss Initials No. 2.

ALT Dust jacket of the first edition of The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Harper & Row, 1971), designed by Frederick Cantor using Weiss Initials No. 2.

Detail of Bill Gold’s movie poster for The Exorcist (Warner Bros., 1973), featuring PLINC Gemini and Kabel

ALT Detail of Bill Gold’s movie poster for The Exorcist (Warner Bros., 1973), featuring PLINC Gemini and Kabel

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To properly tell the whole story behind Raskal’s design, we collaborated with type nerd and scholar @typeoff With great care and patience, Dan put the words to narrate the 10 years-long process that lead to the first Swiss Typefaces script font: swisstypefaces.com/read/rask…
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🪶 What would a true Swiss Typefaces script look like? Raskal Oner Write is the answer. Discover today the result of a decade-long process of questioning the role, aspect, process of a script font born in a digital world: swisstypefaces.com/lab/#Rask…
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The Hijab Series: 'What if' (2014) by Yemeni photographer Boushra Almutawakel #WomensArt
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Jean Midolle, Alphabet Lapidaire Monstre, 1835 (1) and Ivan Chermayeff, Mozart Violinkonzerte album cover, Musical Masterpiece Society, ca. 1958 (2). Read more about these two on @FontsInUse: fontsinuse.com/uses/21615/mo…
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fontsinuse.com/ is dominated by Latin-script typography. All the more we’re delighted to see more contributions with text using other scripts. Today alone we added projects featuring Cyrillic, Devanagari, Hangul, and Japanese …
Cover of the Kanji, Kana, BLine exhibition booklet with Japanese and Latin text

ALT Cover of the Kanji, Kana, BLine exhibition booklet with Japanese and Latin text

The Vertigo EP by Panda Gomm features Korean and Latin typography.

ALT The Vertigo EP by Panda Gomm features Korean and Latin typography.

Detail of the Lokmat newspaper in the Marathi language which uses the Devanagari script

ALT Detail of the Lokmat newspaper in the Marathi language which uses the Devanagari script

Poster by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with text in Cyrillic characters

ALT Poster by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with text in Cyrillic characters

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The Case of Will & Schumacher panefarre.com/2022/08/01/the…
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August’s @fontofthemonth is GLYPTIC DJR, a revival of Herman Ihlenburg’s ornamental serif. My interpretation leans into its chaotic energy, emphasizing the angularity of the wedge serifs and contrasting them against delicate curlicues. Now available at fontofthemonth.club!
Glyptic DJR type specimen, with text: “The Great American Fondue Cookbook Vol. 1”

ALT Glyptic DJR type specimen, with text: “The Great American Fondue Cookbook Vol. 1”

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Only until june 19. Digital exhibition at gsalden.folkwang-uni.de
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