Jeremy Tankard is a British type designer.
Tankard has designed retail fonts independently and for
FontShop
FontShop International was an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin. It was one of the largest digital type foundries.
The ''FontFont'' library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, among them renow ...
and
Adobe
Adobe (from arabic: الطوب Attub ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is use ...
.
Corbel
In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal keyed into and projecting from a wall to carry a wikt:superincumbent, bearing weight, a type of bracket (architecture), bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in t ...
was designed for
Microsoft
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and has been included in
Microsoft Office
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and
Windows
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since 2006.
Tankard has also designed custom corporate typefaces for organisations such as
Sheffield City Council,
Falmouth University
Falmouth University is a specialist public university for the creative industries based in Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth and Penryn, Cornwall, Penryn, Cornwall, England. Founded as Falmouth School of Art in 1902, it was later known as Falmouth C ...
and
Christchurch Art Gallery
The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, commonly known as the Christchurch Art Gallery, is the public art gallery of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It has its own substantial art collection and also presents a programme of New ...
.
Some of his typeface designs such as FF Disturbance and Blue Island are experimental and based on distorting the alphabet, through a
unicase
A unicase or unicameral alphabet is a writing script that has no separate cases for its letters. Arabic, Brahmic scripts like Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Devanagari, Hebrew, Iberian, Georgian, Chinese, Syriac, Thai and Hangul ar ...
design in Disturbance and the use of
ligatures to connect letters in unexpected ways in Blue Island.
Tankard’s
Bliss
BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known system language until C debuted a few years later. Since then, C ...
design, used by Amazon, is more traditional and loosely based on humanist sans-serif designs such as
Johnston,
Gill Sans
Gill Sans is a Sans-serif#Humanist, humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Eric Gill and released by the British branch of Monotype Imaging, Monotype in 1928. It is based on Edward Johnston's 1916 "Johnston (typeface), Underground Alphabet", t ...
and
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...
.
Tankard studied at the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...
.
References
External links
Jeremy TankardTwitter pageTypefaces by Tankardat the
Klingspor Museum
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Living people
British graphic designers
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Year of birth missing (living people)
British typographers and type designers
Independent type foundries