STF_JS-SAVOIR GEOGRAPHIQUE ROUNDED (BOLD)
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JS-SAVOIR GEOGRAPHIQUE ROUNDED (BOLD)
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A revival based on the lettering sketches and studies by Dutch graphic designer Jurriaan Schrofer for the book series 'Le Savoir Geographique' and 'Le Savoir Historique' (1971-1974) by Pierre Gourou during his time with Dutch publishing and printing company Mouton & Co., which was based in The Hague.This is a bold weight rounded variation to the original work by Schrofer.
The following text embeds a collection of links that redirect to some additional background documentation on all the work Schrofer did for this book series.
More about Schrofer's other material. please visit the web page of the Wim Crouwel Institute, which currently curates the entire Schrofer collection that was previously owned by NAGO (Dutch Archive for Graphic Designers Foundation).
Note that this additional info is in Dutch language only.
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Info:Created on 5th July 2023. Last edited on 17th December 2024.
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14 Comments
Really Cool AND Retro!
Such a clever and well executed concept
Congratulations, compa!
@Rob Meek: Thanks for the special mentioning boss!
@Everyone else: Obviously thanks to y'all as well..
It's an interesting project. Thank you for sharing the historical background. Some letters look like space-filling curves. Almost all your letters can turn to space-filling curves if you make an outline version. 10/10
@Frodo: "Thank you for sharing the historical background."
— On closer inspection I noticed that all included resource URL's in the description were dead/broken. Now all URL's have been restored and working.
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Anyway, thanks for the kind words mate, Ill look into that "space-filling" concept a little deeper, nice from you to pointing it out.
@Frodo: After a closer examination of the "space-filling curve"-concept you mentioned it suddenly jumped to mind that I have seen this very "ternary expansion" technique been used by the man "Schrofer" himself.
Troughout the years he did numerous works and book print endeavors for which he constructed elleborate illustrations of ornamental graph plots derived from "continuous mapping" sequences that revolve around these "odd bases" to create all sorts of "text-based" graphical visualizations with space-filling curve technique's.
And as a matter of fact, now that I think about it with this freshly gained awareness,
I'm pretty confident in saying that at least some of his alphabet system concepts were specifically tailored towards this very purpose.
Again,
Thanks a lot for mentioning this, since it provided yet another additional dimension in better understanding Jurriaan's amazing "Typ-O-Linguistic" rhymes and reason.
10 years into my "Schrofer"-deep field, and still have yet to fully get a grasp of all ins-and-outs that lies within the man's work, just amazing!
Space-filling curves are an intriguing part of geometry. They are fractals showing self-similarity and iterations. The most famous one, perhaps, is the Hilbert curve described by David Hilbert in 1892. It has a 3D version, too. Hilbert was a German mathematician from Königsberg (East Prussia, today Kaliningrad, Russia). He had no idea that his theoretical findings had practical applications in image processing a hundred years later. Fascinating stuff!
Check out my Fontstruct rendering of the Twindragon curve.
Another great addition to your Schrofer collection.
Great!
Possibly one of the coolest looking fonts I've seen in my life, 10/10
Good job!.... My only "but" is that i cannot tell letters because of the extra lines.
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