Jeremy Tankard is a British type designer. Tankard has designed retail fonts independently and for

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since 2006. Tankard has also designed custom corporate typefaces for organisations such as Sheffield City Council, Falmouth University and Christchurch Art Gallery. Some of his typeface designs such as FF Disturbance and Blue Island are experimental and based on distorting the alphabet, through a unicase design in Disturbance and the use of Typographic ligature, ligatures to connect letters in unexpected ways in Blue Island. Tankard’s Bliss (typeface), Bliss design, used by Amazon, is more traditional and loosely based on humanist sans-serif designs such as Johnston (typeface), Johnston, Gill Sans and Syntax (typeface), Syntax. Tankard studied at the Royal College of Art.

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Jeremy Tankard

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Typefaces by Tankard
at the Klingspor Museum {{DEFAULTSORT:Tankard, Jeremy Living people British graphic designers Alumni of the Royal College of Art Year of birth missing (living people) British typographers and type designers