Hi Luke

� Quay was involved in the design of the Yellow Pages typeface.
� Barings Bank (Custom Typeface)
� British Gas (Custom Typeface)
� Swiss International Air Lines (Custom Typeface)
� City Of Lisbon (Custom Typeface)
� Natwest (Custom Typeface)
� Teletext (Custom Typeface)

and last but not least...
� New Johnston (London Underground Custom Typeface)

I'm sure this list is only the tip of the iceberg so please feel free to add your knowledge to this thread as The Foundry have to be one of the most consistent type foundries in the world.

If you're a fan of beautifully crafted faces then check out Jason Smith's work over at Fontsmith (www.fontsmith.com). I'd kill to get my grubby little paws on any of his custom typefaces for the likes of the Post Office etc.

All the best,
Colin

AFAIK Quay has sailed off (pardon the pun) - Sack is the boss now.

> Quay was involved in the design of the Yellow Pages typeface

I didn't know.
Do you have any details (especially close-ups of the actual fonts) available?

hhp

www.leftofsix.com/typophile/foundry_custom.gif

Thank you!

Just one thing: that yellow pages font was actually done by Jurgen Weltin.

hhp

Ok I stand corrected. Yes Jürgen Weltin did the Yellow Pages typeface but I'm pretty sure David Quay had one eye over his shoulder ;)

� City Of Lisbon (Custom Typeface)

So a custom typeface was created for a city?

The Yellow pages job commissioned by the design agency Johnson Banks.
You'll find a sample on their home page.

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And then there's Brunel, the international signage typeface.


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It funny that Brunel Positive is shown in a negative contrast application.

Well, Bliss seems better than that Brunel (on same UK style*), or Parisine as economical signage typeface if I refer to my own faces :p

*looklike Brunel is losely based on Bliss?

I'm sorry, but Brunel seems like a complete waste of time.

hhp

Surely, that's a bit harsh?

I didn't feel I was wasting my 15 seconds watching it, and I assume
their clients got what they wanted for their particular purposes.

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Of course you didn't waste that 15 seconds, and it certainly wasn't a waste for Quay & Sack - they got paid for it! But culturally it's going nowhere whatsoever. It's so generic that at most it's just a way to save money compared to a corporate license of an existing design.

It reminds me of the Dutch phone book phone done by Majoor, which doesn't even bother with trapping! Instead of that MM they should have just gone with a custom instance of Myriad-MM.

hhp

At least they used a horizontal scrolling webpage :-)

Randy
(another way you can tell you spend too much time at typophile!)

the foundry really need to get there fonts selling via an automated purchasing system, having to call there office to purchase is a bit of joke for such a fantastic foundry.

>It's not unheard of.

Over there, I suppose not. But over here the city councils have enough trouble understanding the concept of marketing themselves, let alone commissioning a custom typeface!

Don't forget Quay's pre-Foundry work for Letraset and ITC, especially Quay Sans, a contemporary of Meta, and along the same proportions, though with its angularity in the lower case, harder edged.