Originally made in 1991 for FUSE. A revised version was released
with FontFont in 1995. “Highlighting the interdependencies of
input and output in the interplay between designer and device,
Cornel purposefully crashed the Adobe Type Manager, a piece of
software tasked with optimising the appearance of PostScript fonts
on screen. As a consequence, the cheap Apple StyleWriter printed
the crudely pixelated screen rendering of a small-size font sample
of Akzidenz-Grotesk.
The information contained in the font file had been severely
corrupted; the printouts were showing crude pixel compositions
forming abstract patterns. After scanning them, Cornel redrew the
square-pixel shapes, experimented with rounding the corners and
soon arrived at his new typeface, which had been largely created by
the (dis-)information system More…
Originally made in 1991 for FUSE. A revised version was released with FontFont in 1995. “Highlighting the interdependencies of input and output in the interplay between designer and device, Cornel purposefully crashed the Adobe Type Manager, a piece of software tasked with optimising the appearance of PostScript fonts on screen. As a consequence, the cheap Apple StyleWriter printed the crudely pixelated screen rendering of a small-size font sample of Akzidenz-Grotesk. The information contained in the font file had been severely corrupted; the printouts were showing crude pixel compositions forming abstract patterns. After scanning them, Cornel redrew the square-pixel shapes, experimented with rounding the corners and soon arrived at his new typeface, which had been largely created by the (dis-)information system itself: a typeface that openly displayed its digital DNA.” – Lineto
See also the revised and extended LL Moonbase Alpha (Lineto, 2021).
