GOOD:
AlienGray3
Democratica
Tarzana
A lot of stuff by Lee Schulz.

BAD:
T26 :-P

hhp

One foundry comment is that the range of display faces most popular amoung Art Directors throughout the early to mid 90s was almost exclusively dominated by Image Club.

Stuart :D

> One foundry comment is that the range of display faces
> most popular amoung Art Directors throughout the early
> to mid 90s was almost exclusively dominated by Image Club.

That would be mostly my fault.

Specifically, Fajita.

Apologies.

FontFonts did quite well, in what was mainly a national (pre-Internet) direct-mail marketing era.
They had good branding, well designed printed specimens, plus Fuse and the FontBook.
And the FontShop stores.

Their classics are Scala, Meta, Dax, & Quadraat. DIN could be included, although that was designed in the 1930s originally.
Maybe classic: Fontesque (still selling well).
More ephemeral: Blur, Trixie, Dot Matrix, Mambo, & the "Instant Types".

Grant, don't forget we can blame you for Beesknees too! =)

Huh? I thought Dave Farey did that.

Dave Farey designed Beeknees, not my favourite. Also he designed Bodoni 175B Bold for Lanston.
http://lanstontype.com/BodoniBold.html
You might notice he included small caps. They come with both "French" oldstyle and lining figures. Rather unusual. This face works with the Bodoni 175 designed by Sol Hess for Lanston which also has the "French" oldstyle figures. http://lanstontype.com/Bodoni.html

I might add David's pencil quality is not even second to a robot.

He is a remarkable man with an exacto blade. His earlier works were cut in amberlith. I have heard he now is consulting for the "London Times". Does anyone happen to have a current e-mail address for him? Or phone number?

I'd say it's a bit more than "consulting"...
BTW, he'll be at TypeCon.

hhp

Hrant,

Is it too late to consider going to the "big event"?

It looks like you have until July 12 to save $100:
http://www.typecon2004.com/register.html

hhp

> Dave Farey designed Beeknees...

We just helped make it popular by selling a crapload
of it through both Image Club and EyeWire.

Anything by Jens Gehlhaar was superb, and still is. the best work he did was after the Apply design releases. Barnbrook's work was also amazing and a trend setter.

>Does anyone happen to have a current e-mail address for him? Or phone number?

Gerald, you will find Dave's contact info at www.housestylegraphics.com/Contact/contact.html. There's also a nice little bit on the website about his development of the new Times Classic for The London Times a few years ago.

-- K.

Kent,

Thank you. Dave is a good friend. Lost touch with him after all of my disasters and moves.