Julius B. Thyssen - Abstract Fonts

Great for short children's books and road-signs. Love it!

Wow, really good. I like how even all the accents (for é and á etc.) are uniquely 'wild' and freaky ;-) I would slightly slant the : and ; though. This way they are a mismatch..

Beautiful left-handed design type.

Nice, really nice. Loved the movie too.

By the way, this font has often mistakenly been accused of being a 'rip-off' from Colin Brignall's Tango font. It's not. This is an adaptation of it, a different interpretation of the same base, which Colin also used. I beg those who accused me of stealing it to look more closely. Print the exact same text using both fonts and you'll see what I mean.. My Kylie 1996 font has much better hinting and a lot more vector-points in the characters too. It came off the ground by request, because the Tango font dropped out at large size usage in professional DTP-software at the time. If you have any more questions about it, please post them here. Regards, Julius

Thanks, I did not even know about it yet. I think Harting shifted the baseline of some characters some more, and this was yet another font for which the original .TIFF of the scans were out there on some BBS-es at the time, making it extra easy to re-do them if you were smart enough..

[quote]@koeiekat:Difficult to come to another conclusion. P22 just added the higher ASCII. Big deal. Yet in my perception the word design means something a bit more than that.[/quote] I've worked on almost 90% of David's characters in the font, and changed hinting and some vector-points too. (If you zoom in you will discover this.) On a printed page this makes quite the difference. It was done for a big poster advertisement here at the time, for which a variation on Goodfellow was requested for a lot of characters. The people liked Goodfellow, but could not stand half of the design, so I put my vision in it, highly based on their wishes (which I actually agreed with). If I remember correctly (by head) I did not agree with David's taste regarding the F, f, P, S, T, t, J, j and some others, plus the missing paragraph symbol, é, à and some others, were crucial enough to warrant a new font. I haven't looked at the P22 version yet, but it sounds like that was based on my interpretation of the Goodfellow font. Regards, Julius

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