Designing fonts for me is to fill a void in the primary context of design.
Let's say: Do I feel Verdana is not enough economic/readable on screen for its excessive width? So I try to create a typeface with a better screen usability, maybe good for print as well, enough to be used at unexpected sizes: Sys.
Do I feel the lack of condensed and monospaced commercial type for screen usage? Then I challenge myselfe with Pragmata, to obtain a face that allows me to read better my e-mails and codepages.
Has the creative freedom design achieved in the 1970s faded away with a "totalitarian" comeback of Helvetica? Then I design Eco and Eco-nomico, fonts/tools born out of my desire of keeping a continuity with that freedom.
Even while designing "aseptic" faces like CP Company I never drop the opportunity to experiment with unusual forms and stylistic combinations.
After all, designing typefaces for me it's a way to break down a limitation I perceive as well as expressing myself in the process. I am not fond at all of fancy fonts bearing decoration as an end in itself but with no personality or revivals we really don't seem to actually need. Many revivals are more an academical exercise, with little or no use at all in the process of design, a thing we should not ignore, especially today.
my font philosophy
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