LL Brown Typeface & Specimen
Design Aurèle Sack
“LL Brown started to be designed in 2006-2007. Its design was meant to follow the tradition of english and german grotesks from the early 20th century. It is not a redesign, but it’s instead to be considered as a contemporary typeface using the strengths and shapes of Johnston enhanced with a new and modern personality. It is available in 4 weights, four italics and four backslanted. It will be distributed and made available by lineto.com in a few months.”
I know a good type specimen when I see one and I’m not to afraid to say that this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is one of my favourites of 2010. I’m almost not surprised that this typeface (and specimen) will be made available on lineto.com soon, after all, they did bring us such gems as the Akkurat Specimen and the Replica Specimen, both of which sold out very quickly!
Aurèle Sack is a graphic designer specialized in type design and editorial design. He focuses mainly on projects within the cultural field. After graduating from ECAL in 2004 (with a sans typeface called AS Gold) he worked in Zürich and New York. He currently lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. Around 2006, working for NORM (Zürich), he created Omega Corporate Typeface, Gallery Typeface and Purple (a serif face published at Lineto). In 2008, Fleurie (typewriter face) was designed with Flag (Zürich). In 2009, he made AS Garamond in collaboration with Jonas Voegeli (Zürich) for Das Magazin.
Thank you to Aurèle for the hi-res images and info.
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