Type Style Finder

(Provision) Type Style Finder

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Designers looking to express a psychotic mood through type can find this

quality in faces that have structural disconnects or treatments that disturb

their basic structures—unexpected changes in stroke weight or direction

within characters, inclusions of counterspace that break across strokes,

or jagged edges and abrupt joints that appear disconnected or fractured.

These qualities are enhanced in bolder weight faces, especially italics.

Faces that show disconnects in style—hybrid serif/sans-serif forms, serif

faces with unrelated or exaggerated formal details, or faces incorporating

condensed, extended, and italic structural attributes convey a sense of

disconnection. Typefaces with harsh, included treatments—textural breaks

or distortion—may also communicate a psychotic mood, along with those

that appear to have been cut, spliced, scratched, and so on.

Disturbed, aggressive, obsessive, hallucinatory—these qualities define

psychosis, a mental state not quite in touch with reality. Type and color

that exemplify this psychological disconnect show disturbance through

visual relationships that are anything but normal.

Catalog Cover

top, and detail, bottom

MAGMA [Büro fur Gestaltung]

Sandra Augstein, Lars Harmsen,

Boris Kahl

Karlsruhe Germany

Psychotic

Moods

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ITC Atmosphere

TM

Graphic | Bold Weight |

Slight Italic Posture |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Bergell

TM

Graphic Script | Light Erratic

Weight | Upright Posture |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Bonray

TM

Regular

Graphic Serif | Bold Weight |

Broken Strokes |

Structural Distortion |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Chiller

TM

Graphic | Erratic Weight and

Posture | Slightly Condensed |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

F2F Prototipa Multipla

TM

Graphic | Erratic Weight |

Textural Presentation |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Linotype Mega

TM

Out

Graphic Sans Serif | Black

Weight | Contour Distortion |

Slightly Condensed |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

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Moods Psychotic

F2F Shakkarakk

TM

Graphic | Bold Weight |

Stroke Distortion |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

F2F Twins

TM

Graphic | Heavier Bold Weight |

Erratic Posture | Erratic Body

Height |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

P22 Ed Rogers Duplex

Graphic | Erratic Posture |

Pronounced Contrast |

P22 Type Foundry

www.p22.com

[e-mail]

800.P22.5080

Schwennel

TM

Lila

Graphic | Erratic Weight |

Broken Strokes |

Stroke Distortion |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Linotype Not Painted

TM

Graphic | Medium Weight |

Surprinted Characters |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Schwennel

TM

Negro

Graphic | Erratic Weight |

Broken Strokes |

Stroke Distortion |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

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Type Style Finder

ITC Outback

TM

Sans Serif | Bold Weight |

Condensed | Textured Contour |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Pink

TM

Sans Serif | Light Weight |

Structural Distortion |

Modulation |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Hot Plate

TM

Std 2

Graphic | Mixed Style, Case,

and Weight | Abstract Details |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Hot Plate

TM

Std 4

Graphic | Mixed Style, Case,

and Weight | Abstract Details |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Quake

TM

Graphic Serif | Medium Weight |

Stroke Distortion |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

ITC Pious Henry

TM

Sans Serif | Light Weight |

Ultra Condensed | Erratic

Posture and Body Height |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

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Moods Psychotic

Linotype Seven

TM

Graphic | Bold Weight |

Brush Detail |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Linotype Sjablony

TM

Graphic | Bold Weight |

Broken Joints |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

ITC Temble

TM

Graphic Serif | Erratic Weight |

Stroke Distortion | Sharp Serifs |

Linotype Library GmbH

www.linotype.com

[e-mail]

+49 (0) 6172 484.418

Glue Regular

Graphic | Mixed Case, Weight,

and Heights | Textural Details |

T.26 Digital Type Foundry

www.t26.com

[e-mail]

888.T26.FONT

Havoc

Graphic | Bold Weight |

Erratic Baseline and Posture |

Textural Details |

T.26 Digital Type Foundry

www.t26.com

[e-mail]

888.T26.FONT

Helter Skelter

Graphic | Light Weight |

Overall Italic Posture |

Textural Details |

T.26 Digital Type Foundry

www.t26.com

[e-mail]

888.T26.FONT

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