A katakana font
In the Swiss capital of Bern, down in the Old Town’s Matte Quartier, close by the Aare river, there’s a warehouse that has been converted into office space. An internationally renowned graphic design collective operates from there: Büro Destruct.
Büro Destruct was founded in 1992 by a small group of young designers who are rooted in the tradition of no-frills Swiss graphic design yet blend their work with an avant-garde techno sensibility, create innovative typography and often display a quirky playfulness. Their work has been collected in two books.
Lopetz is a founding member of the collective. He is also great lover of all things Japanese, which led him to co-edit Narita Inspected, an illustrated introduction to the work of a few select contemporary Japanese designers. While he has been collaborating with Japanese designers for a long time and used Japanese type in his work every once in a while, it is only now that he released his first Japanese type design, a katakana font named Wakarimasu. The font can be downloaded for free from TypeDifferent.com.
The logo we use here at Tawawa is based on another Büro Destruct typeface, BD Eject, so I wonder if we should use Wakarimasu for the logo over at Tsure-zure.net Let’s see:.
Hmmmmm…
A few other sources of free Japanese fonts, just in case anyone’s interested:
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My pleasure.
Actually, the only type-related link anyone should ever need is Luc Devroye’s Type Design, Typography, Typefaces and Fonts, which includes Japanese typography.
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whee fonts! Thankyou very much for those links! They be rockin, every one =) *katakanalove*