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Custom typography is a microcosm of design.

It gives you everything you need to become a better designer:

Balance
Repetition
Rhythm
Space
Proportions
Contrast
Optical Corrections
Unity
System logic
Tension points for utility and novelty
Texture

All come together here on this page. All fonts, layouts, and copy custom by me, GiGi Designs.

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Modern Electrics Font Revival

MODERN ELECTRICS is a monument to the dazzling early electric age. An era of inquirers delighted in sharing homespun experiments to a diaspora of like-minded enthusiasts. It’s at home doodled in the margins of the first electrical magazine for everyone- whose name it shares, & the source of its original 11 letterforms.

It wears an Lovelace Has A Posse tee and yearns to be scribbled in ballpoint blue. It was soldered into the desk which launched Amazing Stories. It hands you a blindfold? You spin around 3x and put a finger down on a map. Kit up. Adventuring begins at dawn.

MODERN ELECTRICS includes 1 font style in .OTF format:

Supports 5 currencies: Dollar, Pound, Euro, Yen, & Yuan
26 upper case
26 lower case
All QWERTY special characters

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Proudly Introducing
Phosfor + Phosfor Aether Typefaces

19th century digital letterforms lovingly reconstructed for 21st century creators.

Phosfor is a rationalized type superfamily inspired by a single letter in an early segmented display patent dated 1898. No complete example of this devices' letterforms exist. Neither in original filing, nor from the inventor elsewhere.

With only 10 pages about this device crossing the digital divide, and no other recreation attempts to work from, adapting it for modern use was an interesting riddle to solve. Especially for hashtags and @ symbols. Look forward to seeing how you make it work for you! Phosfor is a fun little personal project to release as my NDA projects soak up more time causing fewer updates here. Excited to share those when I can! Until then--

Enjoy techno-necromancy as its most elegant: Phosfor; 19th century curio refusing relegation to the dustbin of history.

Fun facts:

Typically Frank W. Wood's patent filed in 1908 is cited as the first of its kind for now common segmented display devices. Source.
George Lafeyette Mason's patent filed 1898, Phosfor's basis, now makes it the earliest known example. Source.

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