Typo 9010: Czech digitized typefaces 1990–2010
8 texts, 103 designers, 399 typefaces, 288 pages, 1902 styles. Typo 9010 covers 20 years of typefaces, and also acts as a specimen. Unlike traditional specimens though, it can be read from beginning to end. Lednická used texts of Petr Babák, Filip Blažek, Veronika Burian, Karel Haloun, Ondřej Chorý, Bas Jacobs, Pavel Noga, Jan Solpera and František Štorm to show how alphabets work in actual typesetting. Even though some fonts tried to fight it and the setting is far from standard, the fonts show what is in them better than with a quick fox jumping over a regular specimen and reading the texts is more fun than in the sober design of most academic publications. What is more, chronological order transforms the book into a wild ride through the visual likings of the times and it naturally brings together fonts that would hardly meet otherwise. Combinations of Regent by František Štorm or Mongoloid by Ondřej Chorý with Cubist edges of Reflex by Aleš Najbrt work to reader’s definite surprise. It all ends with one big, beautiful period by Petr Bosák.
2015 Zuzana Lednická
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK