Underware

Miguel Hernandez2 August 2005 · 19:39

Hi to all,

I wish to hear your opinions about one of the newest type foundries who follows the same direction of humanist emotional connotations who inspired me everyday on my latino vernacular handpainted neighbourhood signage.
I think that the sense of humor and the emotional relation of his products samples design to his customers its a great strategy.
The Logo brand its a handpainted swashy lettering who is very similar to some humoristic comercial signage here in Chile..
I think that Sauna and Dolly are the better works from Underware until now, because they are very versatile. Auto its a great work too but its ductos is maybe too much squared and geometrical. Bello pro its a nice Display font but i think that its very hard to read..maybe they can do a better version keeping the same flavour but adding more functionality as a type. I wish to add some critique to his display works because i feel that i am in the same way or direction to this guys and i like to see more and more type designs like Dolly and Sauna from independent designers.

BTW, i like to know which method use Underware to design fonts, they work in group right?
Personally i wish to be oriented to get sucessful finished fonts with a similar way of work..

Best,

mh.

Jackson3 August 2005 · 00:16

Underware’s work is definitely amazing. If you haven’t seen their workshop stuff you should totally check it out. The projects provide a good insight into the way they approach type. www.typeworkshop.com They also published a little booklet called five point that is a good read, I think you can still order it.

rabattski3 August 2005 · 03:55

dito on the 5 Pts. booklet. nice read / must have. you can still get it. and as said before, visit their workshops.

Chris Rugen3 August 2005 · 04:58

I’ve become completely enamoured with Underware’s work, particularly Dolly, Sauna, and Bello. I got my hands on their Dolly and Sauna specimen books w/ free trial versions of the fonts (what a great idea) and 5 pts at TypeCon. I opened up my laptop on the way home and started playing with the fonts. Underware just seem to be genuinely enjoying and loving what they do and having mischievous fun, while still doing great work. On top of that, they’re teaching students how to do the same thing. Their font specimens are full of funny and interesting writing, not just strings of meaningless words, another reason I like getting my hands on their stuff.

My appreciation of their work has a lot to do with what I know of Undeware as a whole, not just how much I like the fonts. Their work has been instrumental in getting my ass in gear on a font, as well.

So, yeah. I like Underware.

Miguel Hernandez3 August 2005 · 07:07

Underware´s classes looks very fun and i receive an email a couple of months ago, with the idea of make online type clases too in the near future.
I wish to find the way that the underware team works for building his fonts; they are Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki. Who is the specific work of each one?

Miguel Hernandez3 August 2005 · 12:10

Nobody thinks the same in any way?

Miguel Hernandez3 August 2005 · 14:41

I always follow they workshop and other stuff like typereadio at typecon

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