Free Peter Saville Fonts
A type-related incident for Friday: yesterday, Kottke featured a site offering free downloads of the Peter Saville fonts used in designing album graphics for Factory Records' artists like New Order and Joy Division. Turns out these aren't legit from Peter Saville (surprise), don't quite hold up against the originals (pictured above: part of the cover of New Order's Republic alongside the free download), and are just "shoddy versions" of other typefaces such as Trajan and Rotis serif. But if you like them, they're free. Meanwhile, if you want to know more about Peter Saville, visit his official site or read this Alice Twemlow article. Also, the complete graphic output of Factory Records is (legitimately) available in book form, previously featured here.
posted by kate at 2:09 PM
2 Comments:
For a moment, I fell in love with you.
Then I read past the first line.
They're not horrible. With the right kerning, I'd not mind them. But still.
LOL. I felt the same about Kottke until I got down to his updates. Meanwhile, I never said they were horrible. Just not legit. ;)
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