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.