Solex (Emigre)

[Philippe Jallon <panafmed@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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New Emigre Font: Solex
Solex: A family of eight text fonts designed by Zuzana Licko, each 
available in both Macintosh or Windows formats. Zuzana Licko's latest 
typeface family, Solex, is her first release in nearly two years. It 
is a more conservative and studious exploration of the industrial 
sans serif genre and its past than she has undertaken before. Licko 
has allowed herself to be lured by ideas that have interested many a 
type designer while maintaining a footing in her own ideas and using 
her own methods to express them. Solex marks an intersection of ideas 
that grew from two or three separate periods of development over the 
past hundred years; yet Licko, in her investigation of formal design 
possibilities for Solex, referred to relatively few historical 
models. Inspiration for Solex reportedly came from two principal 
sources: Alternate Gothic and Bauer Topic. Furthermore, Solex 
revisits postmodern themes seen in Erik Spiekermann's digital 
milestone, Meta Sans, and its cousin, Officina Sans. In both Licko's 
and Spiekermann's designs we find a measure of rigidity, linearity, 
and noncalligraphic monotone. Indeed, Solex even shows faint signs of 
going in the direction of Matthew Carter's text series, Bell 
Centennial, with respect to the narrow (almost trapezoidal) bowls, 
slimmed interior strokes, and pronounced traps. All the same, Solex 
has a look of its own in text settings, and it will likely find a 
place for itself among numerous other condensed grotesques in the 
years ahead. John Downer  
T: + 1 916 451 4344
F: + 1 916 451 4351
E: news@xxxxxxxxxx
W: http://www.emigre.com/Solex
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