Chromosome, by Brian Wilson mimics the type you might get from
a 1960s-vintage, hand-held label-tape gun. It comes in Mac or PC/Windows formats,
in two weights, light and heavy -- a reference to how hard you might've squeezed.
The heavy weight has that telltale embossed look that seems especially genuine when
it's reversed out of a dark strip; the light weight is lean and spare; the two work
well separately or may be mixed together to good effect. (The two weights behave
as a family: the Plain or Roman style is Chromosome Light; applying a style of "Bold"
should get you Chromosome Heavy.) True to its origins, Chromosome is an all-caps
typeface.
You are invited to contact Brian with comments, criticisms, bugs, suggestions,
and/or other styles you'd like to see.
Since this is shareware, Brian does request a $10 registration fee. For that
fee he'll send Chromosome with a complete character set, all standard punctuation
marks, accents, and ligatures, plus a number of alternate letterforms designed to
simulate errant baseline offsets.
As an added value, he'll also throw in a reversed version of each weight, along
with trial copies of a few other typefaces. Contact Brian Willson at:
In its new, commercial-only incarnation, Chromosome remains a four-style
typeface, but it'll now cost (as of 01 January) US$39. Like all my fonts,
it's available at The Type Quarry, my little Web foundry: http://www.typequarry.com/
Get with it! &Type is looking for YOU:
When you run across a font you like, let us know! Send us the foundry name and contact
if you can, or better yet, go ahead and write it up for publication right here in
the Design & Publishing Center!
Thank you for visiting http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/
Chromosome is (TM) Trademark by Brian Wilson. Copyright, 1995
Copyright (c) 1996, The Design & Publishing Center
