Types & Characters: Xavier Dupré and Martin Majoor
Type design super heroes Xavier Dupré and Martin Majoor are featured in FontFont’s new Types & Characters brochures. Their excellent typefaces and their approach to design is presented to provide an insight into the work of the people behind the letters. The Types & Characters series, designed by students of University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany reveals type designers’ sources of inspiration, their sketches and computer work, as well as some very personal statements. The good news? The PDF files are free:
- & Characters: Xavier Dupré" href="http://www.fontshop.com/fontfeed/images/TypesandCharacters_XavierDupre.pdf">Xavier Dupré (4.7M PDF)
- & Characters: Martin Majoor" href="http://www.fontshop.com/fontfeed/images/TypesandCharacters_MartinMajoor.pdf">Martin Majoor (2.4M PDF)
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Yotam, unfortunately we do not have any printed copies of the Types & Characters because the series is only available as a PDF.
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Looks super interesting; Any chance of obtaining a printed copy somehow?