Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
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Typography, Referenced
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Job:03171 Title:Typography Referenced (Rockport)
Page: 114
German Olaya
Colombian, –
Typefaces: Chato Band, Foodshow, Kab, Mosketa, Soda (),
Esso (), Fango, Fructosa,
Uncle Typewriter, Yexivela (), Californya ()
German Olaya was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in . He started his
career as a type designer in when he purchased his fi rst copy
of Fontographer, software for font designers. He subsequently started
his own website, www.typo.com, where he currently showcases his
own type designs and graphic experiments—which have brought
him worldwide recognition. Olaya’s celebrated work appears in all
types of media, including magazines, books, publications, and fi lms,
and on music labels, television, and snowboards.
Californya ,
Chester Jenkins
Canadian, –
Typefaces: Apex Sans (, with Rick
Valicenti), Apex Serif (),
Mavis (), Galaxie Cassiopeia (),
Galaxie Polaris (), Galaxie
Copernicus (, with Kris Sowersby)
Chester Jenkins was born in Montreal. He
is a type designer, publisher, and cofounder
of the cooperative foundry Village, with
Tracy Jenkins. He studied graphic design
at College Dawson in Montreal, and has
spent the past fi fteen years working in his
hometown, as well as in London, Utrecht
(The Netherlands), Chicago, and New York.
Jenkins has published several retail
typeface families that are used worldwide
by a range of clients including CBS Sports
and the United Nations. He has created
custom typefaces for the National Foot-
ball League, Condé Nast, and the New York
Times Magazine, as well as collaborated
with Rick Valicenti of the design fi rm Thirst
on several typefaces.
Since , he has been developing
typefaces in the OpenType format, taking
advantage of
’
s multilingual Unicose
support and its stylistic potential. Jenkins’s
recent work outside the Latin alphabet
includes Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew
scripts, work he plans to incorporate into
future editions of his published types.
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