Font Aid IV: Coming Together

I recently contributed an ampersand design to the Font Aid IV project to help raise funds for Haitian earthquake relief. The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has just announced the release of “Coming Together”, a font created exclusively for Font Aid IV to benefit the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. The font consists entirely of ampersands, to represent the idea of people coming together to help one another. Nearly 400 type designers, graphic designers, and other artists from around the world contributed artwork to the font.

The font will be sold for $20 starting on Monday, February 15, 2010. It is now available through font distributors Veer and Ascender Fonts. It will be available on FontShop on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 and on MyFonts later in the week. All proceeds from the sale of the font will go to Doctors Without Borders, to help with their relief efforts in Haiti.

The “Coming Together” font contains over 400 glyphs and is supplied as a single, cross-platform OpenType font. All glyphs are accessible using OpenType-savvy applications, Unicode-savvy utilities, the Character Map utility on Windows, and FontBook on Mac OS X.

My contribution to the project (bottom center, above) was based on some lettering I did in a poster I designed for an exhibition of music industry related graphics called “Revolutions“. I would have credited the other eight designers whose ampersands are depicted, but I didn’t know who had done them.

Deliscript Lauded by Type Directors Club

I was extremely excited to learn recently that my Deliscript font family (Alphabet Soup’s major font project of 2009) was chosen by the Type Directors Club to receive their prestigious “Certificate of Excellence in Type Design” in the display fonts category for their TDC² 2010 Typeface Design Competition. Deliscript was one of only 16 designs chosen from the many typefaces entered from 29 countries.

Deliscript will be showcased in TDC² 2010, will be on display in New York City throughout the summer of 2010, and will be published in TDC’s Typography 31, the Annual of the Type Directors Club. The exhibition will then go on tour traveling throughout North and South America, Europe, and East Asia.

Once again I’d like to extend my thanks to the very talented Patrick Griffin of CanadaType for his invaluable help with Deliscript’s OpenType programming.