Last week, fans of font from far and wide convened at Maker City LA for a typographic speaker series presented by Los Angeles Is Just My Type (LAIJMT) Meetup Group featuring celebrated type designer David Jonathan Ross. Ross, who works at The Font Bureau, shared a riveting history on the art of typography, with a particular focus on his favorite variety: reversed stress typefaces. From Gothic Italian to Playbill to Arbor to Trilby...Tua...Estro...his own creation, Manicotti - and seemingly every other typeface in between - Ross made it perfectly clear that this isn't the only period in history when there have been too many fonts to choose from!
Check out these choice tweets from the event and be on the lookout for information about the next font-abulous LAIJMT Meet-up!
Backasswards #LAIJMT @MakerCityLA @mohawkpaper @ColorIncUSA @pr1marycolor @IcelandicWater @TasteofPace @sugarandfluff pic.twitter.com/td8Y4pvcUN
— TypeEd (@TypeEd) May 23, 2014
Watching David Jonathan Ross speak @MakerCityLA! #LAIJMT pic.twitter.com/9STV12sCam
— Brandie Mata (@ARTDESIGNLOVEME) May 23, 2014
Cool - and historically controversial - typeface from 1821 #backasswards #laijmt pic.twitter.com/lUCTa59pBA
— Maker City LA (@MakerCityLA) May 23, 2014
Manicotti typeface - like a spaghetti western @djrrb @TypeEd #laijmt #backasswards #makercityla #DTLA pic.twitter.com/tBuG4Suygz
— Maker City LA (@MakerCityLA) May 23, 2014
But thicker and tastier! @MakerCityLA @djrrb @TypeEd #manicottitypeface #spaghettiwestern #LAIJMT
— Juan David Rangel (@rangeljdr) May 23, 2014
Dynamism is about how the letter gets heavy. pic.twitter.com/zfFBbyGEPK
— Janette Jackson (@JanetteJackson) May 23, 2014
Why use a work horse when a show pony will do the trick? @djrrb talking typeface @TypeEd #backasswards #laijmt pic.twitter.com/B9wzPMcgw9
— Maker City LA (@MakerCityLA) May 23, 2014
#backasswards #reversestress #type #accidental #twins #meetup @typeed @MakerCityLA @nosleeptilbrookelyn_ #AdamKing pic.twitter.com/wSpyiSeH2O
— Leah Faust (@typograffiti) May 23, 2014
Thx @TypeEd @mohawkpaper @ColorIncUSA @pr1marycolor @IcelandicWater @TasteofPace @sugarandfluff @djrrb 4 an awesome collab & amazing event!
— Maker City LA (@MakerCityLA) May 23, 2014