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| 03 |---MACWORLD-->-->> May 1995. ----------------------------------------------------------------- From California. Feature on |T-26| and their "Marcus Aurelius" font. While berated by type cognoscenti as "grunge fonts," the type illiterate (not to mention a large number of innovative professional designers) seem to love the new crop of wacky fonts by small upstarts such as the Chicago-based [T-26]. The folks at [T-26] don't seem too concerned about criticism from the establishment; their fonts have names like Scrawl, Garbage, and Outhaus. Although I've been known to go into curmudgeonly tirades myself while trying to read some of the hip new 'zines that favor the newly fashionable faces, I enjoy using them for my own projects. I just used Mark Allen's Marcus Aurelius to create a business card, for example, and I'm very pleased with the results. Legibility is not the aim of Marcus Aurelius and its ilk; getting noticed is. You can go out on a limb and use [T-26] fonts in your designs, or you can play it safe and use Adobe's Lithos, a sublime, timeless face that has become a victim of its own appeal and trickled down to pizzaparlor signs and potato-chip bags. Use Marcus Aurelius for anything you want . . . well, almost anything--do me a favor and don't set an entire article in it. Distributor: [T-26] (773-862-1201). List price: $39  >> return to "articles" section :-) SEGURA INC. 1110 North Milwaukee Avenue. Chicago, Illinois 60622-4017. (t) 773.862.5667 (f) 773.862.1214 (e) info@segura-inc.com |
