Fodor is a
geometrical
Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is ...
typeface
A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
There are thousands o ...
designed by
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
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* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
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graphic designer and
type designer
Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below.
A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production su ...
Wim Crouwel
Willem Hendrik "Wim" Crouwel (; 21 November 1928 – 19 September 2019) was a Dutch graphic designer, type designer, and typographer.
Early life and education
Between 1947 and 1949, he studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, th ...
, around 1973.
History
Fodor was designed for the covers of the magazine published by
Museum Fodor
Museum Fodor () is a former art museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum was located at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam-Centrum in the building that currently houses the Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.Amsterdam
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. The main text on the covers were set with an electric
typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectivel ...
, and the
monospace
A monospaced font, also called a fixed-pitch, fixed-width, or non-proportional font, is a font whose letters and characters each occupy the same amount of horizontal space. This contrasts with Typeface#Proportion, variable-width fonts, where t ...
d typeface that it used created strong horizontal and vertical lines. Crouwel made these visible by using a regular pattern of pink dots on an orange background. He then used this grid to draw the letters ''fodor'' and a set of numbers. Later, a complete alphabet was developed from the wordmark.
[Jan Middendorp, ''Dutch Type'', 010 Publishers, Rotterdam (2004), p. 121.]
Digital Fodor
The digital version of Fodor was made by the
type foundry
A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Before digital typography, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces for hand typesetting, and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and M ...
''The Foundry'' in London. It is part of the '' 3 Crouwel'' collection. Other typefaces in this collection are '
Gridnik', '
New Alphabet', ' Stedelijk' and ' Catalogue'.
Other typefaces by Crouwel
*
Gridnik
*
New Alphabet
References
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External links
Architype 3 Crouwel collectionon The Foundry
Display typefaces
Monospaced typefaces
Typefaces designed by Wim Crouwel