Emigre Fonts

A brand new book of California pictures by Rudy VanderLans is out now! Published by Gingko Press. Available at your local bookstore.
Order a copy directly from Emigre before August 31st, and we’ll send along a free copy of the Joshua Tree book, plus a few other surprises.

https://www.emigre.com/BooksCds/OleanderSunset

We're so sad to hear about the passing of a true original, a master of typography, and a great inspiration. Rest in peace Wolfgang Weingart.

Below: Weingart's bicycle in front of the Basel School of Design.
Read our interview with Weingart here:
https://www.emigre.com/Essays/Magazine/AnInterviewwithWolfgangWeingart

When in Sommerville, MA, check out Zuzana Licko’s Jacquard Weavings at the wonderful Katherine Small Gallery.

Zuzana Licko: 9 Jacquard Weavings We were so taken by type designer Zuzana Licko’s weavings that we asked if we could have a show of them. (Artists take note: Don’t ask us. We’ll ask you.) The geometric designs in these jacquard weavings are constructed from Licko’s Crackly pattern fonts (as noted above), and then fine tuned...

Checking a sample hand-bound copy of my next book of photographs, “Oleander Sunset.” 256 pages, including eight fold-out panoramas!
Due out in August. Published by

Emigre #15, 1990.

Take a peek behind the scenes into the early days of digital type design and theory. This issue features interviews with Zuzana Licko, Jeffery Keedy and Barry Deck when they were designing their first typefaces. It’s the issue where Licko expressed her view that “You read best what you read most,” and Peter Merten's proclaimed that "Illegibility does not exist,” firing the first shots in the so-called "Legibility Wars.” Also includes the essay “Type Writing” by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller introducing the notion of Structuralism and typography. This slice of graphic design history is in the permanent design collections of both MoMA NY and MoMA SF. And now you can own a copy as well.

Only one copy left! Used, dented, small white smudges on lower left corner. Available here:
https://www.emigre.com/Magazine/15

(Digital images by )

Come in on the ground floor and help Mike Nicholls with his crowdfunding campaign to launch Umber Publishing, an independent Black-owned publishing house based in Oakland, CA.
https://succeeding.thisisumber.com/

Four Letter Words Type Catalog.

"Make it bigger" is an often heard client suggestion that can drive graphic designers mad. But sometimes things actually do look better when big. We picked twenty-six fonts from the Emigre Library that we think look really good when used at a large size and gave them ample real estate to display their distinguishing details.

Designed by Rudy VanderLans, this thirty-two-page type specimen features typefaces by Mr. Keedy, Jonathan Barnbrook, Zuzana Licko, Elliott Earls, Sibylle Hagmann and many others. Each typeface is used to spell out a four letter word suitable for print.

You can download a free PDF version from the Emigre website.
https://www.emigre.com/TypeSpecimens/FourLetterWords

And if you're on the Emigre mailing list, you’ll receive a printed version within the next month or so.
https://www.emigre.com/TypeSpecimens

Another collectable issue of Emigre magazine from our archive. For sale.

For this edition Rudy VanderLans traveled to Switzerland to take a closer look at Swiss design in the early 90s, and how this powerful design tradition has been assimilated (and/or rejected) by a younger generation of graphic designers. Featuring interviews with Wolfgang Weingart, April Greiman, Hamish Stuart, Richard Feurer, Peter Bader, Hans-Rudolf Lutz and others.

Only one copy left! Near perfect condition. https://www.emigre.com/Magazine/14

(Digital images by )

Here’s another collectable issue of Emigre magazine from our archive that we are putting up for sale.

https://www.emigre.com/Magazine/13

For Emigre #13 (1989), subtitled "Redesigning Stereotypes," we invited graphic designers from around the world to create a single image that would best represent their country or state in an effort to substitute current cultural stereotypes such as wooden shoes, Eiffel Towers, lederhosen, cowboys and kangaroos. Designers include Wolfgang Weingart, Rick Valicenti, Malcolm Garrett, Lucille Tenazas, Neville Brody, Mitsuhiro Miyazaki, Philippe Apeloig, and many others.

Only one copy left! Used, but near perfect condition.

(Digital images by )

This is the second of a series of rare back issues of Emigre magazine we are putting up for sale. See link in bio.

Published in 1989, Emigre #12 looked at the connection between graphic design and printing, featuring a group of designers who use printing and pre-press as an integral part of the design process. Instead of reproducing existing work we asked the contributors to create original art that incorporated their ideologies. Work by Allen Hori, Warren Lehrer & Phil Zimmermann, Rudy VanderLans and an essay by Ed McDonald about the Dutch designer/printer H.N. Werkman.

Only one copy left! Near perfect condition except for small crease in lower right corner of cover and first two pages.

(Digital images by Letterform Archive.)

https://www.emigre.com/Magazine/12

In the coming weeks, we will be putting a number of rare back issues of Emigre magazine up for sale.

Published in 1986, Emigre #5 was still true to its original romantic concept as "The Magazine That Ignores Boundaries," featuring local Bay Area artists exploring the immigrant experience. Also, in terms of design production, #5 is exemplary of the transition period between traditional production techniques and Emigre's early bitmap fonts and layouts.

Only one copy left! Used, slight discoloration on cover, and some denting.

https://www.emigre.com/Magazine/5

(Digital images by Letterform Archive.)

Honey Barbara, our good friends in San Antonio, Texas, have released a new album! Listen to it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcPNK3AszP8