Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens, 1986–2024

Contents

• Preface  Stephen Coles
• Foreword  Mr. Keedy
• Introduction  Rudy VanderLans
• Acknowledgments
• Featured specimens Digital Fonts, Whirligig, Mrs Eaves, Hypnopædia, Space Probe, Platelet, Dalliance, Keedy Sans, Fairplex, Los Feliz, Cholla, Tribute, Poppi, Puzzler, Vista, Matrix II, Malaga, Little Book of Love Letters, Mrs Eaves XL, Historia, Mr Eaves, Base 900, Alda, Mr Eaves XL Narrow, The Collection, Program, Type Sampler, Cardea, Nine Literary Types, Inflection Point, Tangly, Notes on Filosofia, Crackly, Four Letter Words, Tally, Littlebit, Lo-Res Outlined, Lo-Res Monospaced, Grody to the Max
• Behind the Scenes

About the Contributors

Emigre, Inc. is a digital type foundry based in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Macintosh computer, the Emigre team, consisting of Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, with the addition of Tim Starback in 1993, were among the early adaptors to the new digital technology.

From 1984 until 2005 Emigre published the legendary Emigre magazine, a quarterly publication devoted to visual communication. Emigre created some of the very first digital layouts and typeface designs winning them both world-wide acclaim and much criticism. The exposure of these typefaces in Emigre magazine eventually lead to the creation of Emigre Fonts, one of the first independent type foundries utilizing personal computer technology for the design and distribution of fonts. They created the model for hundreds of small foundries who followed in their footsteps.

As a team, Emigre has been honored with numerous awards including the 1994 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and the 1998 Charles Nypels Award for excellence in the field of typography. In 1993 they were selected as a leading design innovator in the First Annual I.D. Forty. Emigre is also a recipient of the 1997 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal Award, its highest honor. In October 2010 the Emigre team was inducted as Honorary members of the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, and in 2013 Licko received the prestigious Annual Typography Award from the Society of Typographic Aficionados. Most recently Emigre received the 29th New York Type Directors Club Medal.

Complete runs of Emigre magazine are in the permanent collections of art museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Design Museum, London; the Museum for Gestaltung, Zurich; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2011, five digital typefaces from the Emigre Type Library were acquired by MoMA New York for their permanent design and architecture collection. Emigre magazine can also be found in the collections of several libraries, including those at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague; the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collections, Rochester; the University of Reading, Reading; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.In 2016, Emigre donated its entire archive to San Francisco-based Letterform Archive. The gift included archival material in various media, such as every Emigre type catalog, development files for original Emigre typefaces, audio taped interviews and mechanicals for Emigre magazine, and various correspondence. The Online Archive hosts a complete run of the magazine, digitized in high fidelity for on-screen reading.

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