Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens 1986–2024

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A 1,500-page compendium containing nearly five decades of remarkable print ephemera from a trailblazing digital type foundry. Emigre is a graphic design and digital type foundry based in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1985 by the husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, it was one of the first independent digital type foundries to explore the new design possibilities offered by the Macintosh computer. It is also known for its legendary design magazine, Emigre, which was a quarterly publication between 1984 and 2005. To announce each of its new typeface releases, Emigre published small booklets displaying the virtues of its fonts and revealing the processes used to design them. More than simple sales tools, these type specimens were enjoyed as much for their inventive contents and layouts as for their innovative typeface designs. This volume combines Emigre's type specimens from 1986 to the present, drawing from archival materials spanning nearly four decades. The result is a massive 1,500-page reference providing a definitive and comprehensive collection of the foundry's remarkable print ephemera since its inception.