Bastard (typeface)

Bastard (typeface)

Bastard is a blackletter typeface designed by Jonathan Barnbrook (born 1966) in 1990. The name derives from a typographic classification known as Bastarda. The Bastard face is an exploration of the blackletter face (the earliest types, similar to those made by Gutenberg, and based upon monastic script) with a simple kit of parts.The face is available in three weights: Spindly Bastard, Fat Bastard, and Even Fatter Bastard.

While the angular terminals suggest the nib of a pen, the typeface was drawn electronically and avoids curved strokes. The c. 1865 typeface Fletcher is similar in its purely geometric construction.

References

*Bain, Peter and Paul Shaw. "Blackletter: Type and National Identity." Princeton Architectural Press: 1998. ISBN 1-56898-125-2.
*Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. "Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History." Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
*Macmillan, Neil. "An A–Z of Type Designers." Yale University Press: 2006. ISBN 0-300-11151-7.

External links

* [http://www.barnbrook.net/ Website of Barnbrook Design]


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