I designed and published a total of 16 fonts at URW++ fontshop. (Now Monotype.inc) These 16 fonts are thematic and distinctive. The following fonts are hosted by URW++ (Monotype.inc) and other publishers such as:
My Fonds, youworkforthem, Fonthaus, Fontgala en meer
Typefaces: C- Nation, Nipon, Le Rock, Pipeline, Smooth Buggaloo, Labyrindo, New Daily , Picastro, Filistique, & Jazmo, Democrazia , Eurabia, Beyond babylon, Kosmique en Roundabout.
Lettertype design- Ik heb in totaal 16 lettertypes ontworpen en gepubliceerd bij URW++ fontshop. (Nu Monotype.inc) Deze 16 lettertypes zijn thematisch en onderscheidend. De volgende lettertypes zijn ondergebracht bij URW++ (Monotype.inc) en andere uitgeverijen zoals:
My Fonds, youworkforthem, Fonthaus, Fontgala en meer
Typefaces: C- Nation, Nipon, Le Rock, Pipeline, Smooth Buggaloo, Labyrindo, New Daily , Picastro, Filistique, & Jazmo, Democrazia , Eurabia, Beyond babylon, Kosmique en Roundabout.
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Marit Otto on Smooth Buggaloo: Just like my previous typefaces, my new one, Smooth Buggaloo, also finds its roots in music. The Boogaloo was a popular music style in the 60ties, a mixture of Latin and Rock and Roll music. Later Salsa took over this genre.
Latin music represents a vibrant, lively and an uncontrollable need to move. In the Smooth Buggaloo you will recognize a swing, flair and a hint of seduction.
But despite its vibrancy it can also be understood as a serious, simple and clean typeface. The characters vary between a handwritten and a designed look.
Smooth Buggaloo is very suitable for any graphic purpose, like logo- and posterdesign and it can also be used for longer texts.
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Roundabout is a typeface that is extracted from an ellipse shape. Each and every character started at the same geometrical figure. By cutting it up in sections, twist and rotate the separate characters could be build. The ellipse provides this typeface with evident and smooth looking features. The name Roundabout is misleading, an ellipse is not round. But the word Roundabout has a nice ring to it and it seems to fit this typeface perfectly. The Roundabout as we know it is a place where the traffic circles. Sometimes in the greater metropoles it jams like clotting veins. Various exits are presented for those who know which way to go, for those who don’t it seems an eternal treadmill. Unlike my typeface, that seems rather careless, light weighted and knows her way around. A roundabout in a child’s mind is a playful carrousel or a merry go round. Merry go round has the sweetest sound and a match is found. My Roundabout is a joyful, optimistic and open typeface, which can be used over and over and over again for many or any purposes.
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Pipeline is a futuristic and technical looking typeface. But as the name suggest it’s also earthly, (literally). Deep down underneath villages, city’s everywhere and even oceans there’s a network of pipelines. Providing us all sorts of supplies, like water and oil. Sewers wash fluid waste away. They are never to be looked upon as pretty or beautiful but purely functional. The soil peeled off and looked upon from above, a greater industrial infrastructure is revealed, cluttered like spaghetti, complex as the maze of corridors of termite colonies. I present two pipelines to you; one naked and one dressed. This typeface is very suitable for graphic, logo and poster design. It is quadratic shaped with round curves. It is modern and classic at the same time. It could be appealing for young, technical, digital, inventive and urban (sub) culture (at any age).
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The revolutionary typeface. Picastro is a fusion of Picasso and Castro. Don’t be alarmed by the second name! It is no political statement. Both characters represent different qualities in the typeface. The Picasso influence is the artistic, freestyle and frolic part. The Castro influence is the firm, square, perseverant look with a hint of propaganda to it. To combine two opposite inspirational sources (innovative versus persistent) makes the shape a bit edged. This typeface is very suitable for all kinds of graphic design (flyer, posters, CD covers and artworks) but also casual enough for (non academic) letter and text writing.
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Nipon has an affiliation with the Far East. The first character I designed for this alphabet was the capital P. The stepped thin lines are linking to the Japanese characters and the circle shape is a classic Japanese element which means literally: the origin of the Sun, Nippon. So this is where the name comes from, I skipped one P in the name, so my Nipon gets his own identity. Next to this oriental look it also carries a light resemblance with a juwel box. Precious and elegant shapes for the gentle touch in writing.
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Marit Otto about New Daily This typeface design has a modern but yet classic appearance. That is why she listens to the name New Daily. I took some elements from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco (type) styles. And modernized it by cultivating the beautiful curved features of both styles and playing with the stylish fluid lines and open structures. By adding a bit of the no-nonsense office look of a typeface like Nimbus Sans a new but familiar look occurs. This typeface is very readable and useful for many purposes. It has a playful distinguished character.
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Le rock is the newborn sister of my first typeface Jazmo and a relative of my music inspired font family.
Le Rock seems to wiggle and jiggle a little as if it invites you to dance. This is caused by the gaps in the individual characters. The typeface can also be seen as eroded, carved and sculpted by mother nature.
But besides, the design of Le Rock can also be associated with the characteristics of stones: Solid and since ever, here, there and everywhere. To walk on, lean against, to be surrounded by, to build with and to shelter in.
It cannot be denied, that there are also some comic art influences. The font is outspoken enough to be used in any form of graphic design, like poster and flyers, but at the same time it remains readable enough for longer texts.
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Labyrindo is inspired on the classic Labyrinth.
The oldest known labyrinth is 3200 years old and is to be found in Greece. The mythological king Minos held the monstrous son of his wife ‘Minotaurus’ prison in a labyrinth.
Much later the labyrinth made his appearance in the medieval churches, this time as a pattern on the church floor.
During the Italian renaissance the multiple gate labyrinth came in fashion. Paths led trough green hedges in beautiful palace gardens. These hedges where perfectly cut in rectangular shapes. Mainly meant as an aesthetic statement.
Besides the origin of the physic labyrinth, it has always been a great source of story telling and myths. I mention a few personal favourites (film) like, Pan’s Labyrinth (a journey to the underworld), Labyrinth (with David Bowie) and the Shining with Jack Nicholson (where a horrific scene takes place in a labyrinth).
Not the most cheerful stories but fascinating and intriguing.
A Labyrinth is mind boggling and mysterious but wonderful.
I made graphic translation in this typeface.
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Kosmique is a worldly typeface. It has been around. It does not reveal one specific cultural aspect but reflects the aspects of many. A melting pot of characters in a straight jacked. The blend gives it the universal, cross over look. Recognizable
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Jazmo is an offspring of an assignment I did for a Dutch architect. A classic building and coincidently the place of my studio in my hometown Zwolle, Netherlands, needed to be renovated. My job was to design the house numbers and signs for this building.
This building I refer to was build in 1932 and designed according to the ‘New objectivity’ architecture. Now it accommodates several artist and craftsmen and also houses students.
In my design I used elements of the Art Nouveau, which is related to the ‘New Objectivity’. Words as stately, angular, linear, stylish, artful, playful and frolic came to mind. It should be a design with a hint of the past and a flirt with the future.
This house numbering is the root wherefrom Jazmo arises. The name Jazmo cites to the Jazz scene, which was a new and very popular artistic influence that time and age and is still a vibrant source of musical renewal. Mo stands for my Name Marit Otto.
Together with my intern Arie Blok I created the missing characters and completed the font.
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Filistique is gracious, flexible, and stylish. In the first sketches of this typeface, the one line drawing principle was the rule. This principal had to perish soon when more complex characters came up. But still the one line rule was kept in tradition to maintain the behavior of the natural course of the drawing line. Once writing, the characters joined fluidly into words and slipped easily into sentences like they had always belonged there. They have these natural features maybe somewhat familiar on the first sight. Filistique approaches handwriting but likes to be straight up as well. Please, no Christmas card writing with this character! She is best in shape for finger licking good menus of classy restaurants, lyrics on an album cover of a renowned and utterly cool artist, for a letter to your precious loved one and of course for making a hell of an impression anyway!
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Eurabia is a mixture of two origins. It proofs not to be an easy fitting between the two cultures. This typeface is ahead of the issues at hand. It shows that although it is causing friction, fears and wrath we shall unite in the end and form new identities. These new identities must be open minded, respectful and tolerant towards indifferences and the values of one and other. This knife only cuts both ways. Eurabia is a positive typeface, which wants to believe, against all odds, that love is more powerful than hate. In Eurabia ancient European and Arabic elements brought together and make a new fresh appearance. It works wonder well, the frolic and graceful curled lines combined with the solid firm lines. Gradual from thick to thin, from square to round. It is all well accepted in this typeface. It is suitable for poster design, adds, graphic purposes and writing.
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Democrazia is the agreeable typeface. It is smoothly curved and has a soft and open character. She is named after the principal, we all cherish, Democracy rooted in the Greek civilisation in the year 624 before Chr., called the Democracy of Athens. It is not perfect but seems the most sustainable of all systems. It requires interest and work to keep it in good shape. Although democracy is cherished it is easy to trample. My typeface is also fragile and shows signs of vulnerability, but has also a firm look. Like it says; you can bend me around but I won’t crack because I am free, creative and flexible. Suitable for all purposes.
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Although the 70ties were very liberating and progressive, still girls played mainly with dolls and sweet things and boys with all kinds of challenging stuff. They did all sorts of basic scientific experiments in mini labs and of course built cool things with Meccano building sets. As a girl I was perfectly happy with the toys I had access to. But at the same time I was very curious about all the adventure toys and discoveries my brother did. It also made me wonder why the grown up people thought that our world could be separated so easily by separating our toys in pink and blue sections. At this day of age Meccano is probably hopelessly old fashioned and far to manual. Children of today are fed by fast images and cool animations on screen, they learn, play, communicate and relax in the same space, the digital space. The special feature of Meccano was that even though it was very basic there was the promise you could create anything. It might even contribute to a logical mind. The typeface I designed refers to the Meccano feel. It is a creative typeface. A bit masculine and bold looking perhaps but after the first impression a subtle and refined female touch is revealed. It has links to architecture and associations with metal constructions like ‘ The Eiffel Tower’ and (old railway) bridges. I am convinced that we all think of that as very charming man-made objects.
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Babylon was a civilisation that stretched from Bagdad to the Persian Gulf. There is an Old and new Babylonia, the era of Babylon civilization and the biblical Babylon. The oldest scriptures to be found since the rise of civilisation are Babylonic. The Christian, the Jewish and the Arabic culture find its origin in the Middle East. And share more or less the same history, the same roots and DNA. One people, but in reality a melting pot of close related cultures whom could not be more far apart, hostile and suspicious towards each other. An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. One could say this disagreement is still alive today and has deeply infected all of our systems. Beyond Babylon is sculpted after Hebrew, Arabic character style elements in a European writing. It questions what happened after the great Babylonic confusion. Did the words finally come across? Did they realize the distant and gap was maybe smaller than expected. This typeface is related to my former character Eurabia. As an artist I like to play with contradictions. Use opposite elements and mould them in to one understandable piece and in addition a thought to chew on. Other wise the experimental ore shape lovin' typeface user could be very happy with an addition feature to the existing characters. One option more to express your selves in writing. Also this typeface is really suitable for theme writing or advertising.
Publicatie september 2016
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