Looks like they still sell them. http://www.fontshop.com/search/?q=fuse+fonts&x=0&y=0

I own one or two - and remember when FontFont (I’m sure that’s where I go them...) I remember talking to the folks in Canada ans they told me this was the new wave of type - and would replace all. Give me shapes and we’ll give you letters....

Odd, I have all of those (124 in total sitting now in Suitcase, waiting for *that* project) that FF are selling, and I *definitely* didn’t purchase them.

I also remember the FTP servers they used as link outs from the website being notoriously slow as they were shredded when new faces went live with accompanying poster. It took me about 8years of successive FTP failures to get Moonbase Alpha, which I saw in Wired. Obviously if they were not all sold, the legality of use is now in question (CanYou I used I think). I could of course be dreaming the whole exercise. :/

—rambling questions—
1. Wasn’t Blur initially a Brody face for FUSE or was it a separate project?
2. In another thread russellm said, “It could be an interesting exercise to use type to influence the mood of the reader and the way the book is read, like the sound track in a movie...”. FUSE instantly sprung to mind then in one of their poster sets...anyone remember?
—/rambling questions—

Some info on FUSE, recently published by Stewf on flickr

1. Wasn’t Blur initially a Brody face for FUSE or was it a separate project?
2. In another thread russellm said, “It could be an interesting exercise to use type to influence the mood of the reader and the way the book is read, like the sound track in a movie...

1. No. Blur was always Neville using Photoshop to distort Akzidenz Grotesk.
2. Isn’t that what typography is supposed to do?

2. Isn’t that what typography is supposed to do?

Well, quite, but I think it was more along the lines of conveying opposite emotional responses to the text via the typography.

Similar in a way I assume to seeing the word “orange” in blue lettering, and other such cod psychological tests you can find viraling their way into your inbox.

Here is an article John Berry wrote about FUSE 18.

Supposedly, this link should be helpful, too, but I am having trouble getting to it:

www.researchstudios.com/home/007-fuse/FUSE_about.php

When I had to buy Blur - it was sold at FontFont as one of the Fuse Fonts. I cannot forget that. Never saw it before. The book for Aeon Flux (remember that book guys...) was given to me to “fix” up for pre-press — Blur was used on one or two of the pages. Then I never saw it again...

FUSE = card-board box, five posters, 3.5inch disk with five fonts on it. Today, thanks to the interwebs we’ve moved on from cardboard boxes and posters :-( and the fonts aren’t quite as interesting without them.