AKA Blackline. Designed by German graphic artist
Wolf Magin
(1927–2009). In 1969, he drew letterforms made from thick and thin
parallel lines, and used it to create 39 serigraphs. This
series, titled Experimenta
litera, was first exhibited in 1975 in Ludwigshafen and
published in a catalog. [kunstundkosmos.de]
Released as a film typeface by Berthold in 1976 [Berthold
Headlines E3]. Note that some uses predate this year.
There are at least four digital versions of
Blackline; the crappy Banderole
(1990–1992) by FontBank, Inc., and DXS Blackline by
Dick Pape (2009, 2010), the very limited Lively Display
Caps (1993, 1996) by Weatherly Systems, Inc. and the nicer
and more mature Linea
Nera NF (2011) by Nick Curtis. Dekal More…
AKA Blackline. Designed by German graphic artist Wolf Magin (1927–2009). In 1969, he drew letterforms made from thick and thin parallel lines, and used it to create 39 serigraphs. This series, titled Experimenta litera, was first exhibited in 1975 in Ludwigshafen and published in a catalog. [kunstundkosmos.de]
Released as a film typeface by Berthold in 1976 [Berthold Headlines E3]. Note that some uses predate this year.
There are at least four digital versions of Blackline; the crappy Banderole (1990–1992) by FontBank, Inc., and DXS Blackline by Dick Pape (2009, 2010), the very limited Lively Display Caps (1993, 1996) by Weatherly Systems, Inc. and the nicer and more mature Linea Nera NF (2011) by Nick Curtis. Dekal (2010) by Jonathan Hill is a liberal interpretation with fewer lines.
See also Glaser and Chwast’s Filmsense.
