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August 18, 2004

hybrid fonts

This comes from an idea I had when doing the country/horror poster, but which I never had time to investigate . . . making a hybrid country/horror typeface.

There's been quite a tradition of hybrid fonts ever since the Mac was intro'd into graphic design. I referenced hybrid fonts by Makela and Barnbrook in my book 'Hot Rod Biology'. The piece here I just made quickly today to see how it might work to try and graft one display font onto another ñ the two originals are Rosewood and Spookhouse. [please excuse the shit kerning]

I did this today because I started reading a book on Art Chantry which discusses his collecting and combining of things that don't usually go together (through collage) . . . he'd done some great band logos and I thought maybe this hybrid font thing might work for The Hi-Aces. It seems very simple . . . easy perhaps? And I wonder how far this could go?

Could be good to use in the Elvis illustrated caps anyway . . .

Posted by Luke Wood at August 18, 2004 04:09 PM