New Alphabet

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by mattmc

See also New Alpha Bit by pauldhunt, New Alphabet, Substance Style by mrman, New Alpha Dot by pauldhunt, New Alpha 1Line by pauldhunt, New Azbuka by pauldhunt, Pentagrid Alphabet by mattmc, Complete Alphabet by JH34, New Alphabet Oi by Jerick Torres FS (Jerick-Torres).

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Based on Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet. My own site is http://pixelspread.com
Info:

Created on 2nd April 2008. Last edited on 22nd June 2009.
License:

Creative Commons
Categories:
- Display
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Tag:
- Crouwel(29)

18 Comments

Great idea, Matt. For those who missed it, here is Matt's blog post about New Alphabet.

Comment by Stephen Coles (Stewf) 2nd april 2008

Thanks a lot Stephen! I'm a big fan of typographica.

Comment by mattmc 2nd april 2008

Been waiting for this for a while... too lazy to do it myself. Great Job!

Comment by Form 3rd april 2008

i think your S and s are missing a brick in the bottom, left corner.

Comment by pauldhunt 8th april 2008

you are correct paul, thanks for pointing that out. fixed.

Comment by mattmc 9th april 2008

damn cool !!!!

Comment by richrogerson 13th april 2008

just beautiful! thanks!!

Comment by artstrike 10th may 2008

is there a way to get this to work on the mac os? every time i put this in suitcase fusion, the program tells me the font is damaged...
very strange. anyone know about this?

Comment by artstrike 19th august 2008

thats great thanks, ive been looking for this for weeks

Comment by mrman 15th october 2008

I was wondering how it can be redesigned to convey legibility issues, this is a great type, very rational. But the main purpose of it has dissapeared, now we have LCD and plasma screens, I supose Wim would wouldn't matter.
Great work.

Comment by coffee 11th january 2010

@coffee I tried dealing with that legibility issue with Pentagrid Alphabet: http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1699
I could still see some hypothetical uses for this, but I've always just loved the idea of totally re-imagining the alphabet to fit the needs of a certain medium.

Comment by mattmc 11th january 2010

wow!!! thanx!!

Comment by inaek 10th march 2010

Have you asked Win Crouwel before doing a derivative work of his design? If not, I think it is very unethical to distribute a font that mimic the original font.

Comment by sinserif 18th august 2010

Have you asked Win Crouwel before doing a derivative work of his design? If not, I think it is very unethical to distribute a font that mimic the original font.

Comment by sinserif 18th august 2010

thanks! Super fonts!

Comment by shericanzon1 26th september 2010

i know i'm late to the party, but a) quotation marks and apostrophes aren't in line with the font scale, and umlauts and other diacriticals don't work - they default to Helvetica on Mac.

Comment by axnxp 30th may 2016