So I took the basis of that design and expanded it into a full working typeface design. The letterform portion of my design was comprised of what I called a sort of “blackletter/hybrid”. The work I did for them never saw the light of day, but I always had a soft spot in my heart for one of the logo designs I developed. The beginings of this font can be traced back to a project I worked on many years ago: a logo I was asked to design for the Califonia Angels baseball team. I’ve been working on the font design shown here for the better part of a year-ever since I completed the Dyna-Fonts. Most of my fonts (with the exception of Steinweiss Script and DeLuxe Gothic) are completely new inventions. But there are a few of us font designers still left who want to create something that’s not been seen before. Make no mistake-there’s a goldmine of vintage designs out there waiting to be rediscovered. These days many font designers create their designs by referencing designs from the past. I have an aversion against taking the easy road. In the Works-New Blackletter/Hybrid Font Apon 12:23 pm | By Michael | In News, Notes | No Comments –Dark Angel OpenType Programming:Patrick Griffin/ CanadaType –Dark Angel Design and Art: Michael Doret/ Alphabet Soup Type Founders –For more detailed information download The Dark Angel Manual PDF (1.1 MB). From A to Z: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bemba, Bosnian, Catalan, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Ganda, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kalaallisut, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Lithuanian, Luo, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Sango, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Turkish, Welsh, and last (but not least) Zulu. The free-standing underlines you see in some of the examples shown here were set independantly and then manually moved into position.ĭark Angel has enough language support to make the builders of Babel envious-its 1,163 glyphs can be used to set copy in 59 different languages. Utilizing Dark Angel’s various features, words can be put together to build creative configurations, wordmarks and “Logos”. Some characters have multiple alternates. With Stylistic Alternates you can go either “Plain” or “Fancy”, changing the look of your copy to suit your needs. With this font layered over the basic font, two–color typesetting will be created when the highlight and the base font are assigned two different colors. When these two fonts are purchased together as a Family package, included will be a third font-Dark Angel Highlight. Type purists may be critical of the lack of adherence to traditional forms, but this font should be seen only as “in the spirit of” blackletter, and attempting to create something that hasn’t been seen or done before-something that feels traditional, yet at the same time fresh and unexpected.ĭark Angel can be purchased in its regular solid form, or as Dark Angel Underlight-a “handtooled” font. It is far more legible than most “Old English” or “Gothic Script” styles, and incorporates many features never before seen in them, such as swashes, tails and a plethora of ligatures. It’s kind of blackletter in feel, but as a display font it’s so much more. Many accomodations had to be made to keep these forms working together as a font but, as much as possible, the spirit of that original character design has been kept. Below you can compare the forms from that original logo pencil and the corresponding letters from the new font. That Angels logo was never completed, but its rough sketch rose from the dead and become the basis for this brand new font design-and was also the source for the name. This font had its genesis years ago when the style was born in a sktech Michael created of a new logo for the California Angels baseball team (renamed shortly thereafter the Anaheim Angels). New Font Release: Dark Angel Jon 3:05 pm | By Michael | In News, Notes | 1 CommentĪlphabet Soup Type Founders and Michael Doret are proud to announce the Release of Dark Angel, a “blackletter/hybrid” font.ĭark Angel is the first completely new take in decades on the traditional “blackletter” font style.
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