Emigre, Inc.,

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Emigre Fonts, is a digital

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based in

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, that was founded in 1985 by husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko. The type foundry grew out of ''Emigre'' magazine, a publication founded by VanderLans and two Dutch friends who met in

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in 1984. Note that unlike the word ''

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'', Emigre is officially spelled without accents.

History

Emigre Fonts was founded as an independent foundry in 1985 quickly following the release of the first issue of Emigre magazine in 1984. In a 2002 interview with Rhonda Rubinstein for Eye Magazine, Licko recalled the early days of her type design and the important relationship between the magazine and the foundry:

“When I started building Macintosh bitmap fonts in 1984, it was a purely experimental endeavour. I didn’t have a client for these fonts, nor did I plan to start a type foundry. It was ''Emigre'' magazine that opened up these options. Rudy had started it (with two Dutch artists) as a showcase for émigré artists
Issue #3
was the turning point for my typeface experiments and for the magazine, as it was typeset entirely using my firs
Lo-Res fonts
We had a lot of inquiries about the availability of these typefaces that no one had seen before. It was the start of Emigre Fonts."

Coinciding with the advent of the

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computer, Emigre took advantage of the new medium to design digital typefaces without requiring the equipment or manufacturing infrastructure of a traditional type foundry. Rather than adhering to the aesthetics of metal type optimized for letterpress printing, Licko began designing fonts that embraced the limitations of

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graphics endemic to early PCs and the idiosyncrasies of

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. Robin Kinross analyzed these fonts in a 1992 article for Eye Magazine: "The early productions were rationalised by reference to the requirements of low-memory computing and low-resolution screen display and printer output, and show considerate ingenuity in juggling with a heavily reduced formal repertoire, to make coherent sets of characters." Continuing to embrace advances in technology, Licko later produced vector-based design. In addition to being one of the first companies to design original fonts made on and for a computer, Emigre Fonts was the first to sell licenses and transfer digital fonts online. Created by long-time Emigre collaborator, Tim Starback, the original system — called "Now Serving" — was built using FirstClass. Downloads could take up to one hour, requiring four to six modems (phone lines) to handle the demand. In time, a 56K "digital" connection to the

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was added, which allowed customers all over the world to connect without long distance rates. Starback recalls those early days:

"Eventually we figured out how to get the web server to talk to our database and then authorize a credit card, still done with a dial-up modem. At that point, we had an automated system that could process orders and give the customer access to the font automatically. All the tech stuff was new to everyone, so we were all learning together."

In the process, Emigre created the "perfect model of an autonomous foundry run by designers. Many designers followed Emigre's lead, joining their library or launching their own foundries." Emigre Fonts developed or released some of the most cutting-edge typefaces of the late 1980s and 1990s. Their success as pioneers in the digital type industry is in no small part credited to their eager adoption of new technologies and ability to recognize skill in contemporary designers, as expressed in a 2016 interview of Licko by Sally Kerrigan for Adobe Typekit:

“Each of our font families exudes a certain quality that is either tied to the technology of the time, the level of craftsmanship of the designer, or the prevailing aesthetic preferences of the time. Because the Emigre library developed over the past 30 years, alongside and in reaction to evolving technologies, each typeface is like a snapshot in time.”

During this early digital period when design professionals were combining analog and digital production methods, Emigre’s print magazine (known for featuring graphic design criticism and experimental layouts) doubled as an advertising venue for Emigre’s typefaces by showcasing their fonts in use off-screen. Though many of Emigre's fonts are considered icons of

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design, Emigre didn’t limit themselves. Licko’s popular revivals, Mrs Eaves (based on

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) an
Filosofia
(based on

Bodoni Bodoni is the name given to the serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813) in the late eighteenth century and frequently revived since. Bodoni's typefaces are classified as Didone or modern. Bodoni followed the ideas ...

), were a departure from this style. In an interview i
Emigre No. 15
in response to a question about the legibility of her experimental bitmap fonts, Licko stated that "You read best what you read most," indicating that fonts such as Helvetica and Times Roman are not intrinsically legible but become so through repeated use. This was a highly contested opinion within the world of type design that generated heated discussion in the pages of Emigre magazine and elsewhere. This was later referred to as the “Legibility wars” — a term coined in 2004 by Robin Kinross in his book ''Modern Typography: an Essay in Critical History''. Emigre was often criticized for rejecting

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design rules. Massimo Vignelli, a prominent

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and voice in the graphic design field, was highly critical of the foundry. Vignelli famously called Emigre a “typographic garbage factory,” insinuating that they were either a threat to the dominant graphic design ideals or insignificant as an “aberration of culture” in a typography panel discussion reported on in a 1991 issue of Print Magazine. This sparked an intense debate in the industry for much of the 1990s. To Vignelli's later collaboration with Emigre to directly promote the release of Licko’
Filosofia
typeface by designin
the poster
to announce the release, Licko responded: “Massimo’s willingness to collaborate on our announcement reflects Emigre’s ability to bridge different approaches.” In 2011,

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in New York acquired five Emigre typeface families. The digital fonts are Keedy Sans by Mr. Keedy, Mason Serif by Jonathan Barnbrook, Template Gothic by Barry Deck, Oakland (a.k.a Lo-Res) by Zuzana Licko, and Dead History by P. Scott Makela. They were added to the Architecture and Design Collection as part of a selection of 23 digital typefaces documenting milestone designs covering the twentieth century. The acquisition followed in the footsteps of the Museum's first ever typeface acquisition, a case of 36-point Helvetica Bold lead type designed by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffman in 1957 for the Haas type foundry in Münchenstein, Switzerland. The typefaces were on display as part of the exhibit “ Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design.” Emigre remained faithful to their belief that legibility is a byproduct of exposure or practice. “People read best what they read most,” was a manifesto that encouraged VanderLans and Licko to continue exploring new designs. The idea that new typefaces or layouts could become not just more legible but better for their intended uses and technologies than old ones gave birth to a full library of new designs for a new digital era. Refusing to waver in the wake of criticism, Licko and VanderLans forged their own path, revolutionizing design aesthetics and becoming one of the most influential digital type foundries.

Books

* ''Emigre: Graphic Design into the Digital Realm'', 1993 — Book celebrating Emigre’s first 10 years * ''Emigre (Exhibition Catalog)'', 1998 — Catalog to commemorate an exhibition about the work of Emigre at the Jan van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands * ''Emigre Fonts Type Specimens Volume I'', 2006 — Limited edition, case bound book containing 12 original Emigre Fonts type specimens * ''Emigre No.70: The Look Back Issue, 2009'' — A 512-page selection of reprints that traces Emigre's development from its early bitmap design days in the mid 1980s through to the experimental layouts that defined the so-called * ''Departures: Five Milestone Font Families by Emigre, 2011'' — This book celebrates the acquisition of five Emigre typeface families by The Museum of Modern Art in New York * ''Emigre Fonts: Type Specimens 1986-2016, 2016'' — 752-page compilation featuring reprints of Emigre's most remarkable specimen designs covering a period of 30 years

Typefaces

Most typefaces in the Emigre Fonts library were designed and produced by Zuzana Licko. Over the years Emigre also licensed fonts from an international group of designers. All Emigre fonts are for retail and sold by licensing agreement to users worldwide. In addition to licensing fonts directly to users through the Emigre Fonts website, in 2016 Emigre licensed the entire Emigre Fonts library to

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to make its fonts available through Adobe’s Creative Cloud service. The annual subscription to Creative Cloud includes single user desktop licenses and Web font hosting services for all Emigre Fonts. The company's type library features fonts by Mark Andresen, Bob Aufuldish,

Jonathan Barnbrook Jonathan Barnbrook (born 1966), is a British graphic designer, film maker and typographer. He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, both in London. Work Barnbrook designed the cover artwork of David Bowie's ...

, Rodrigo Cavazos, Barry Deck, Eric Donelan, John Downer, Elliott Peter Earls,

Edward Fella Edward Fella (born 1938) is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. He created the OutWest typeface in 1993. His work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Brauer Museum of Art, and the Museum of ...

, Sibylle Hagmann, Frank Heine, John Hersey, Jeffery Keedy, Zuzana Licko,

P. Scott Makela Paul Scott Makela (February 6, 1960, Saint Paul, Minnesota – May 7, 1999, Pontiac, Michigan) was a graphic designer, multimedia designer and type designer. Among other work, he was especially noted for the design of Dead History, a postmodern typ ...

, Conor Mangat, Nancy Mazzei, Brian Kelly, Miles Newlyn, Claudio Piccinini,

Just van Rossum Just van Rossum (born 1966 in Haarlem) is a Dutch typeface designer, software developer, and professor at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. He is the co-founder of design firm, LettError, along with Erik van Blokland. Just van Rossum is the y ...

, Christian Schwartz and Rudy VanderLans. See ful
font library
an
specimens type specimens
available on Emigre's website.
Alda
by Berton Hasebe (2008)
Arbitrary
by Barry Deck (1990)
Backspacer
by Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly (1993)
Base 9 & 12
by Zuzana Licko (1995)
Base 900
by Zuzana Licko (2010)
Base Monospace
by Zuzana Licko (1997)
Big Cheese
by Bob Aufuldish and Eric Donelan (1992)
Blockhead Alphabet
by John Hersey (1995)
Blockhead Illustrations
by John Hersey (1995)
Brothers
by John Downer (1999)
Cardea
by David Cabianca (2004) * Cholla Slab by Sibyl Hagmann (1999)
Chowdown
by Tucker Nichols (2019)
Citizen
by Zuzana Licko (1986)
Council
by John Downer (1999)
Crackly
by Zuzana Licko (2019
Dalliance
by Frank Heine (2002) *

Dead History Dead History is a typeface which explores combining structural elements of both geometric sans-serif and Didone serif typefaces. History The Dead history typeface was designed in 1990 by P. Scott Makela and is licensed by Emigre. While Makela ...

by P. Scott Makela (1990)
Democratica
by Miles Newlyn (1991)
Dogma
by Zuzana Licko (1994)
Eidetic
Neo by Rodrigo Cavazos (2000)
Elektrix
by Zuzana Licko (1989) *

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by Jonathan Barnbrook (1991) * Fairplex by Zuzana Licko (2002)
FellaParts
by Edward Fella (1993)
Filosofia
(Bodoni revival) by Zuzana Licko (1996)
Filosofia Parma
by Zuzana Licko (2019)
Hypnopaedia
by Zuzana Licko (1997)
Journal
by Zuzana Licko (1990)
Keedy
by Jeffery Keedy (1989)
Lo-Res
by Zuzana Licko (1985 and 2001)
Los Feliz
by Christian Schwartz (2001)
Lunatix
by Zuzana Licko (1988)
Malaga
by Xavier Dupré (2007)
Mason
by Jonathan Barnbrook (1992)
Matrix II
by Zuzana Licko (1986)
Missionary
by Miles Newlyn (1991)
Modula
by Zuzana Licko (1985)
Modula Round & Ribbed
by Zuzana Licko (1995)
Motion
by Frank Heine (1992)
Mr Eaves Sans & Modern
by Zuzana Licko (2009)
Mr Eaves XL Sans, Modern & Narrow
by Zuzana Licko (2009) * Mrs Eaves (Baskerville revival) by Zuzana Licko (1996)
Mrs Eaves XL Serif & Narrow
by Zuzana Licko (2009)
Narly
by Zuzana Licko (1993)
NotCaslon
by Mark Andresen (1991)
Oblong
by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko (1988)
Ottomat
by Claudio Piccinini (1995)
OutWest
by Edward Fella (1993)
Platelet
by Conor Mangat (1993)
Poppi
by Martin Friedl (2003)
Priori
by Jonathan Barnbrook (2003)
Priori Acute
by Jonathan Barnbrook (2009)
Program
by Zuzana Licko (2013)
Puzzler
by Zuzana Licko (2005)
Remedy
by Frank Heine (1991)
Sabbath Black
by Miles Newlyn (1992)
Senator
by Zuzana Licko (1988)
Soda Script
by Zuzana Licko (1995)
Solex
by Zuzana Licko (2000)
Suburban
by Rudy VanderLans (1993)
Tangly
by Zuzana Licko (2018)
Tarzana
by Zuzana Licko (1998)
Template Gothic
by Barry Deck (1990)
The Apollo Program Font Set
by Elliott Peter Earls (1993-98*)
Thingbat
by John Hersey (1993)
Totally Gothic & Totally Glyphic
by Zuzana Licko (1990)
Tribute
by Frank Heine (2003)
Triplex
by Zuzana Licko (1989)
Triplex Italic
by John Downer (1985)
Variex
by Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko (1988)
Vendetta
by John Downer (1999)
Vista Sans
by Xavier Dupré (2004)
Vista Sans Narrow
by Xavier Dupré (2008)
Vista Slab
by Xavier Dupré (2008)
Whirligig
by Zuzana Licko (1994)
ZeitGuys
by Bob Aufuldish and Eric Donelan (1994)

Awards

MacUser Desktop Publisher of the Year Award
1986 * Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design
1994
* Publish Magazine Impact Awards, 1996 * American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal Award, 1997
Charles Nypels Award for Excellence in Typography
1998 * Honorary members of th
Society of Typographic Arts
Chicago, 2010
Society of Typographic Aficionados Annual Typography Award
2013
29th New York Type Directors Club Medal
2016

Museum exhibits

Solo exhibitions * “Emigre Magazine: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1997 * “Charles Nypels Prize,” Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands, 1998 * �
Emigre in Istanbul
” Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 1999 * “Emigre in Norfolk,”

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Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia, 2005 * �
Emigre at Gallery 16
” Gallery 16, San Francisco, 2010 * �
Emigre magazine: design, discourse and authorship
”

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, UK, 2017 General exhibitions *“Pacific Wave: California Graphic Design,” Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, 1987 *“Graphic Design in America,”

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, Minneapolis, 1989 *“Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture{{Cite web, title=Mixing Messages — ellenlupton, url=https://ellenlupton.com/Mixing-Messages, access-date=2021-03-16, website=ellenlupton.com, language=en,” Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 1996 *�
Designer as Author, Voices and Visions
”

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, 1996 *“Design Culture Now: National Design Triennial,” Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2000 *“East Coast/West Coast” a
Centre du Graphisme
Echirolles, France, 2002
D-Day:le design aujourd'hui
" at

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, 2005 *�
Digitally Mastered
”

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, New York, 2007 *�
Quick, Quick, Slow
” Experimentadesign Lisboa 2009, Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009 (featured Emigre magazine issues10–24) *“Typographic Tables,” Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy, 2011 *�
Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern
” Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, 2011 *�
Graphic Design: Now in Production
”

, Minneapolis, 2011 (featured
Emigre No. 70: The Look Back Issue
an
Base 900
*�
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990
”

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, London, 2011 *" Standard Deviations," MoMA, New York, 2011 (featured 23 digital typefaces for their permanent collection, including five Emigre font families: Jeffery Keedy'
Keedy Sans

'
Mason SerifBarry Deck
s

Template Gothic Template Gothic is an experimental, sans-serif typeface designed by Barry Deck in 1989. It was not commercially released until type designer Rudy VanderLans was exposed to the font, when Deck's California Institute of the Arts graduate class vis ...

, Zuzana Licko's Oakland—rename
Lo-Res
in 2001—and

) *�
Work from California
” 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic, 2012 *“Revolution/Evolution,”

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, Detroit, 2014 *�
Typeface to Interface
” Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2016 *�
California Graphic Design, 1975–95
”

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, Los Angeles, 2018 *�
Between the Lines: Typography in LACMA’s Collection
”

, Los Angeles, 2019 Permanent collections *Denver Art Museum holds a complete set of Emigre magazine in their permanent collection. *Design Museum in London holds a complete set of Emigre magazine in their permanent collection.
Letterform Archive
holds th
Emigre Archives
in their permanent collection. *Museum für Gestaltung ( Museum of Design, Zurich) holds Emigre magazine issues in their permanent collection. *Museum of Modern Art in New York holds a complete set of Emigre magazine, and five digital fonts from the Emigre Fonts library in their permanent collection. *Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco holds a complete set of Emigre magazine in their permanent collection.

References

Additional online resources

* Eye (Website), �
Cult of the Ugly
” by Steven Heller, 1993
Letter to Emigre Magazine
(PDF) by Gunnar Swanson, 1994 * 2x4 (Website), �
Designer as Author
” by Michael Rock, 1996 *SpeakUp (Website)

by Armin Vit, 2002. * Typotheque (Website), �
Context in Critique
” review of Emigre #64, Rant, by Dmitri Siegel, 2004 * Typotheque (Website), �
Rudy VanderLans, editor of Emigre
” interview by David Casacuberta and Rosa Llop, 2004 * AIGA (Website), �
An Interview with Rudy VanderLans: Still Subversive After All These Years
” by Steven Heller, 2004
Design Observer
(Website), “Emigre: An Ending,” by Rick Poynor, 2005 * TapeOp (Website), �
Rudy VanderLans: Emigre No. 69: The End
” review by John Baccigaluppi, 2008 * Eye (Website), �
The farewell tour syndrome
” book review by Emily King, 2009 * Communication Arts (Website), �
Emigre No.70: The Look Back Issue
” book review by Angelynn Grant, 2009 * Dwell (Website),
Emigre No.70
” book review by Miyoko Ohtake, 2009 * Print (Website), �
Emigre’s Lucky Number
” by Steven Heller, 2009 * Print magazine (Website), �
Design Couples: Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko
" interview by Caitlin Dover, 2010 * Fast Company (Website), �
Type Master: An Interview with Emigre’s Rudy VanderLans
" by Alissa Walker, 2010. * The Atlantic (Website),
Can the Rule-Breaking Font Designers of Three Decades Ago Still Break Rules?
” by Steven Heller, 2012 *Plazm Magazine (Website),
In Conversation with Emigre
by Sara Dougher and Joshua Berger, 2013 * Communication Arts (Website), �
Emigre Fonts
” book review by Angelynn Grant, 2016 *Print (Website), �
The Legibility Wars of the ‘80s and ‘90s
” 2016 * AIGA, Eye on Design (Website), �
Emigre Type Foundry Pretty Much Designed the ‘90s—Here’s What it Looked Like
” book review by Angela Riechers, 2016 * MyFonts (Website)

by Jan Middendorp, 2016. * Fontstand (Website), �
Emigre: Time and Time Again
” by Sébastien Morlighem, 2016 * Klim Type Foundry (Website), �
Tilting at windmills
” Rudy vanderLans replies to “Welcome to the infill font foundry,” 2016 * University of Reading (Website), �
Emigre magazine: design, discourse and authorship
” an exhibition curated by Francisca Monteiro and Rick Poynor, 2017 * Typography & Graphic Communication (Website),
Emigre magazine: design, discourse and authorship
” exhibition, 2017 * Huffington Post (Website), �
One of Today’s Most Popular Fonts Has a Wild Centuries-Long History
” by Maddie Crum, 2017 * ReadyMag Stories (Website), �
Emigre
” by Zhdan Philippov and Vitaly Volk, 2020 * �
Typography and Legibility: An Analysis of Tschichold, Licko, and VanderLans
” (PDF) by Chaney Boyle, 2020 * MoMA (Website)
Emigre Magazine, issues 1-69
permanent collection * MoMA (Website)
Oakland typeface
permanent collection

Additional print resources

* Bouvet, Michel, ''East Coast West Coast: Graphistes aux États-unis'', Paris, France, Les Éditions Textuel, 2002. Essay on history of Emigre. * Dawson, Peter, ''The Field Guide to Typography: Typefaces in the Urban Landscape'', New York, NY, Prestel, 2013. Interview with Rudy VanderLans & Zuzana Licko. * Eskilson, Stephen J., ''Graphic Design: A New History'', London, UK, Laurence King Publishing, 2007. Essay on Emigre in chapter on “Postmodern Typography.” * Heller, Stephen, ed., ''Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design''. New York, NY, Allworth Press with School of Visual Arts, 2014. Essay on Emigre in chapter on "Mass Media.” * Lupton, Ellen, ''Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture'', New York, NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996. Short profile of Emigre and Zuzana Licko’s typefaces. Book published in conjunction with exhibit at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. * McCarthy, Steven, ''The Designer as Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepreneur, Curator & Collaborator: New Models for Communicating'', Amsterdam, Netherlands, BIS, 2013. Emigre referenced throughout, and short profile of Emigre in chapter on “Typographic Design Authorship.” * Meggs, Philip B., ed., ''A History of Graphic Design'', New York, NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1998. Profile of Emigre in chapter on “Pioneers of Digital Graphic Design.” * Poynor, Rick, ''Design Without Boundaries: Visual Communication in Transition'', London, UK, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1998. Emigre referenced in essay “Cult of the Ugly,” and one essay, “Into the Digital Realm,” on Emigre. * Poynor, Rick, ''No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism'', New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2003. Emigre referenced throughout. * Shaughnessy, Adrian, ''How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul'', London, UK, Laurence King Publishing, 2005. Interview with Rudy VanderLans.

External links

Emigre official siteEmigre Archives
at Letterform Archive (all issues are available in full online)

created b
Jessica Barness
for The Goldstein Museum of Design
Emigre Fonts at Adobe Fonts
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