Comments on: House Type http://www.alvorada.org/2009/12/house-type/ An Exploration of Brazilian Design Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: gabriel http://www.alvorada.org/2009/12/house-type/comment-page-1/#comment-496 gabriel Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:52:21 +0000 http://www.alvorada.org/?p=319#comment-496 here are the "normografos" I was talking about: http://www.leadholder.com/lh-thin-ke-leroy.html here are the “normografos” I was talking about: http://www.leadholder.com/lh-thin-ke-leroy.html

]]> By: gabriel http://www.alvorada.org/2009/12/house-type/comment-page-1/#comment-495 gabriel Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:46:54 +0000 http://www.alvorada.org/?p=319#comment-495 interesting I found another typeface inspired by those old "normografos": http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/btn/register-sans-btn/ (except for the upperface "J"). interesting

I found another typeface inspired by those old “normografos”: http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/btn/register-sans-btn/ (except for the upperface “J”).

]]> By: Frederico Duarte http://www.alvorada.org/2009/12/house-type/comment-page-1/#comment-492 Frederico Duarte Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:48:29 +0000 http://www.alvorada.org/?p=319#comment-492 Thanks so much Gabriel. Actually today, trying to find a match for a typeface used on a letterhead from a coffee grower in 1960s Angola, I found ITC Blair to be the closest. http://www.paratype.com/fstore/default.asp?fcode=554&letter=B Little did I know, or rather, remember, it was exactly the same typeface used in these buildings... Thanks so much Gabriel. Actually today, trying to find a match for a typeface used on a letterhead from a coffee grower in 1960s Angola, I found ITC Blair to be the closest. http://www.paratype.com/fstore/default.asp?fcode=554&letter=B
Little did I know, or rather, remember, it was exactly the same typeface used in these buildings…

]]> By: gabriel http://www.alvorada.org/2009/12/house-type/comment-page-1/#comment-491 gabriel Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:36:55 +0000 http://www.alvorada.org/?p=319#comment-491 the lettering always reminded me of a thing called "normógrafo" (don't know how it should be called in english). The "normógrafo" was a device used by draughtsmen to standardize the typeface of their drawings. The shape of the letters (not actually a "typeface", as it was not printed) was defined, as long as I know, by parameters set by technical standards issued by brazilian standards association (abnt, similar to ansi). These standards were inspired by the ones issued by DIN. However, the "normógrafos" weren't produced with the "DIN" typeface. the typefaces Avenir (to some extent) and Burin Sans seem to by inspired by those letterings (except for the lowercase "a", which had only one store in the old "normógrafos"). the lettering always reminded me of a thing called “normógrafo” (don’t know how it should be called in english). The “normógrafo” was a device used by draughtsmen to standardize the typeface of their drawings. The shape of the letters (not actually a “typeface”, as it was not printed) was defined, as long as I know, by parameters set by technical standards issued by brazilian standards association (abnt, similar to ansi). These standards were inspired by the ones issued by DIN. However, the “normógrafos” weren’t produced with the “DIN” typeface.

the typefaces Avenir (to some extent) and Burin Sans seem to by inspired by those letterings (except for the lowercase “a”, which had only one store in the old “normógrafos”).

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