“Sans Serious IV” by afrojet

Sat, 01 May 2010 03:39:03 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

“Sans Serious V” by afrojet

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:18:14 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

“Sans Serious III” by afrojet

Sat, 01 May 2010 03:39:09 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

“Sans Serious II” by afrojet

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:48:53 +0000

For a full description see Sans Serious I

“Sans Serious I” by afrojet

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:58:13 +0000

The ‘Sans Serious’ Series is a group of tribute typefaces meant to honor Dutch designer and typographer Jurriaan Schrofer. Along with Wim Crouwel and Josef Albers, Jurrian Schrofer (1926 - 1990) was among the Bauhaus pioneers of grid-based modular typography and design. Schrofer's work experimented with type, light, and color and focused on mathematical shapes and pattern. From the book ‘Dutch Type’ by Jan Middendorp: “Schrofer made several attempts to create complete typefaces - one of which was wittily called Sans serious - but this was never his goal. ‘Is it necessary’, he wrote, ‘to make complete alphabets with upper- and lowercase, figures, diacritics and seriously adorned with a name, when the aim is merely a formal investigation into basic recipes’ Schrofer's domain was never the design of typographic alphabets, to be used by other designers, but always the creation of letterforms ‘made to measure’ as part of his own designs of - mainly - book covers and postage stamps. He created a rectangular alphabet as the basic element of his ever-changing covers - each based of the same grid but colored differently - for a series of scientific books, ‘Les textes sociologiques’ from Mouton Publishers. He made sophisticated pixel-based letters, all drawn by hand, and experimented with photographic screens as a means of distinguishing simplified letterforms from the background. He created logotypes built from custom-made letterforms, based on rectangular grids.” “In his booklet ‘Letters op maat’ (‘Type made to measure’, 1987), Schrofer presented many of his experimental alphabets from the 1960s and '70s. The booklet was part of a series of goodwill publications edited by Wim Crouwel for Lecturis Printers, Eindhoven.” Read more from ‘Dutch Type’. Image from Letters op matt. More images of Jurriaan Schrofer's work on Flickr: Schrofer in Total Design book. Cover for European Journal of Social Psycology Museumjournaal, design Jurriaan Schrofer Die Internationale Avant-Garde Jurriaan Schrofer - Fodor catalog Note: for all fonts in the ‘Sans Serious’ Series, the alphabet is the same for upper and lowercase.

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“Sans Serious IV” by afrojet

“Sans Serious V” by afrojet

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“Sans Serious II” by afrojet

“Sans Serious I” by afrojet