Staff pick:
Dead Minutes is “a story game about scale, time, organisation, and the afterlife” by Tom K. Kemp. Samuel Salminen’s design of the accompanying booklet is typeset using Mercure (Charles Mazé / @abyme) and Optima (Hermann Zapf). More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/60294/dead-minutes-by-tom-k-kemp

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New release – we are pleased to announce the release of Axo, a new typeface designed by Charles Mazé.

Axo is a rounded geometric typeface that draws on various writing models from the UK Germany, and France. These letterforms, found on school manuals, technical drawings, and architectural plans contributed to the enduring use of sans serif typefaces.

Read more at abyme.net

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#geometry #rounded #sansserif #script #typedesign #typeface #typography #writing

Book launch – we are pleased to announce the publication of Sweathearts, a book of cartoons by Martin Groch. Sweathearts (the book), a drama in nine acts, chronicles the misadventures of the characters from Sweathearts (the typeface), published by Abyme in 2022.

Please join us to celebrate the book launch this week at

Laichter’s House
Chopinova 1543/4
120 00 Vinohrady
Prague

on Thursday 22 February 2024, 6.30–9.30pm

Sweathearts is also available now at abyme.net

New text – we just published ‘The first sanserif type’, written by James Mosley, about William Caslon IV’s ‘Two Lines English Egyptian’ of 1816. This text is a slightly revised and newly illustrated version of a pamphlet first printed in 1988. Read it at abyme.net

#A045 #abyme #caslon #englishegyptian #jamesmosley #typedesign #typeface #typography