Jeremy Tankard is a British type designer. Tankard has designed retail fonts independently and for

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was designed for

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and has been included in

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since 2006. Tankard has also designed custom corporate typefaces for organisations such as Sheffield City Council, Falmouth University and Christchurch Art Gallery. Some of his typeface designs such as FF Disturbance and Blue Island are experimental and based on distorting the alphabet, through a unicase design in Disturbance and the use of

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to connect letters in unexpected ways in Blue Island. Tankard’s Bliss design, used by Amazon, is more traditional and loosely based on humanist sans-serif designs such as Johnston,

Gill Sans Gill Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype from 1928 onwards. Gill Sans is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Underground Alphabet", the corporate font of London Underground. ...

and

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. Tankard studied at the Royal College of Art.

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External links

Jeremy Tankard

Twitter page

Typefaces by Tankard
at the

Klingspor Museum The Klingspor-Museum is a museum in Offenbach, Germany, specializing in the art of modern book production, typography and type. It includes a collection of fine art books from Karl Klingspor, one of the owners of Klingspor Type Foundry in Offe ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tankard, Jeremy Living people British graphic designers Alumni of the Royal College of Art Year of birth missing (living people) British typographers and type designers