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Type Foundry

A favorite side project this year is reconstructing incomplete typefaces from century old incomplete records.

 

Enjoy the first two. A third is in the works.
 

  • Phosfor (orig. 1898) elevated from a single letterform. Now in 22 styles

  • Modern Electrics (orig. 1908) adapted from eleven letterforms

  • Soon

 
You are cordially invited to select a banner to go directly to a specific font, or start scrolling.

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MODERN ELECTRICS
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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.

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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.

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MODERN ELECTRICS includes 1 font style in .OTF format:

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  • Supports 5 currencies: Dollar, Pound, Euro, Yen, & Yuan

  • 26 upper case

  • 26 lower case

  • All QWERTY special characters

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Phosfor + Aether Type Family

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

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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.

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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.

 

To view various styles in the interactive options use the Select Style dropdown menu in the showcase below.
 

Or purchase complete sets and individual styles at Behance & Creative Market. ​

 

​Phosfor + Phosfor Aether Superfamily includes 24 styles and growing!

  • Supports 5 currencies: Dollar, Pound, Euro, Yen, & Yuan

  • 26 upper case + variants

  • 26 lower case + variants

  • All QWERTY special characters + alternatives

  • 35 alternative glyphs 

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Font styles and taxonomy overview:

Phosfor Vaulted - Slab monospaced typeface

Phosfor Radiant - Slab monospaced typeface

  • Radiant Mk 1 (Currently available)

  • Radiant Mk 2 (Drafted)

Phosfor Aether Subfamily - Mono cased typeface

  • Aether X2 Tilt

  • Aether X3 Italic

  • Aether 4X Lite

  • Aether 5X Pixel (aka: Roman. Matches Radiant and Vaulted weights)

  • Aether 6X Medium

  • Aether 7X Bold

  • Aether 77X Extra Bold

  • Aether 8X Black (TBD)

  • Aether 9X Extended

Phosfor OCR/ Terminal Subfamily (TBD)​

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