Nice interview with type designer / letterer / draftsman / artist, Cyrus Highsmith http://t.co/g1AFMc6q — I Love Typography (@ilovetypography)

9-bits: Highway Typeface by number34: HIGHWAY is an attempt to capture the charm of hand-done early to mid-century Futura clones, the kind of beautiful lettering that happens when a human hand tries to recreate something mechanical. Created during (and inspired by) a cross-country roadtrip, Highway may very well be the first typeface created in the back of a camper. Tons of alternate characters, ligatures, and OpenType sorcery make for endless custom lettering for logos, signage, and seminal prog-rock double albums. Roll on, Babes.  Beautiful work. Slightly reminiscent of Brothers, but rounder and with a gorgeous set of ligatures and flourishes.

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Highway Typeface by number34:

HIGHWAY is an attempt to capture the charm of hand-done early to mid-century Futura clones, the kind of beautiful lettering that happens when a human hand tries to recreate something mechanical. Created during (and inspired by) a cross-country roadtrip, Highway may very well be the first typeface created in the back of a camper. Tons of alternate characters, ligatures, and OpenType sorcery make for endless custom lettering for logos, signage, and seminal prog-rock double albums. Roll on, Babes. 

Beautiful work. Slightly reminiscent of Brothers, but rounder and with a gorgeous set of ligatures and flourishes.

Typefaces are born from the struggle between rules and results. Squeezing a square about 1% helps it look more like a square; to appear the same height as a square, a circle must be measurably taller. The two strokes in an X aren’t the same thickness, nor are their parallel edges actually parallel; the vertical stems of a lowercase alphabet are thinner than those of its capitals; the ascender on a d isn’t the same length as the descender on a p, and so on.
— Hoefler & Frere-Jones