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Adobe is Reviving the Stunning Lost Fonts of the Bauhaus (fastcodesign.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Even if you're not a designer, you've probably heard the phrase "form follows function." That's how influential the school that espoused it, the Bauhaus, has become since its heyday in 1920s and '30s Germany. Now, some of the movement's most compelling -- but largely unknown -- lettering has been recreated from archival material, like original typography sketches and letter fragments, and transformed into contemporary digital typefaces.
The project is part of an Adobe initiative called Hidden Treasures that resurfaces design gems from the past in Adobe products -- previously, the company recreated the paintbrushes used by painter Edvard Munch for use in Photoshop. For the second iteration of the initiative, Adobe worked with the Bauhaus archives in Berlin, Germany, to bring in five design students to create five distinct typefaces, all under the guidance of expert typeface designer Erik Spiekermann. While each of the typefaces will eventually be available to all users of Adobe Typekit, two are now available online: one inspired by Joost Schmidt, a teacher at the Bauhaus who also created the famed poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition, and the other inspired by Xanti Schawinsky, who taught classes in set design at the school.
The project is part of an Adobe initiative called Hidden Treasures that resurfaces design gems from the past in Adobe products -- previously, the company recreated the paintbrushes used by painter Edvard Munch for use in Photoshop. For the second iteration of the initiative, Adobe worked with the Bauhaus archives in Berlin, Germany, to bring in five design students to create five distinct typefaces, all under the guidance of expert typeface designer Erik Spiekermann. While each of the typefaces will eventually be available to all users of Adobe Typekit, two are now available online: one inspired by Joost Schmidt, a teacher at the Bauhaus who also created the famed poster for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition, and the other inspired by Xanti Schawinsky, who taught classes in set design at the school.
Or copyrighted up the ass?
Written language was beautiful centuries ago. Now everything is so simple and boring as can be. The fonts I see in that Bauhaus video look about as appealing to me as a perfectly square hotrod.
Apparently, while working on this project, they discovered why the Nazis shut down Bauhaus. One of the 'lost fonts' that was under development was Comic Sans.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for everybody!
Seriously though, I don't use Comic Sans. I generally choose fonts that are easy for *me* to read. Right now I like Arial and Verdana. Sans serif fonts are easier for me to read than serif fonts. Don't even get me started about script fonts.
News for nerds, stuff that's locked behind five licenses.
Adobe macht frei.
Have gnu, will travel.
...in the series: Love...and Rockets. Word is that these fonts are so alive.
That is all. There is none better for signage.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
You have to be a special kind of design nut to be "stunned" by any font.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Undead undead undead
Apologies if this comes off as shitting on a project's announcement of something that could've been really interesting -- but for the amount of drama conveyed in that intro video, the 2 fonts they offer for sharing are... pretty lame.
Those two fonts that are currently available is hard to read. I would not use them for anything.
OK, it has nothing to do with fonts, but Louis Sullivan, the Chicago architect, coined the phrase "form follows function" in the late 1800s, well before the Bauhaus school in the 1920s and 30s.
You're more likely to have heard it if you're not a designer.
If you said it to the Gnome group they'd all be like "Uh ... what's function?"
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Those are some ugly fonts. a c f and g all have dots in them. Like the kind of dot you would find in a lower case i or j... Ugly as sin..
The iFont app in Google Play offers a font named "Armani."
I was able to use iFont to create an APK file of this font, which I pulled onto a Red Hat desktop. After running unzip on the APK, I found an "Armani.ttf" True Type font file.
The font viewer reports this to be Bauhaus ITC regular.
This is my favorite font, and I copied it over the Android default /system/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf.
Supposedly, this typeface was obtained legally. I have had trouble with iFont in the past, so I don't install it anymore, but I have kept the exported typeface.