Corpid III

LucasFonts introduces LF Corpid III, a versatile type family in three widths for body text, headlines and signage.
The Corpid family has been around for almost a decade. With LF Corpid III, LucasFonts presents its most extensive upgrade to date. Previously available in two widths – Normal and Condensed – Corpid III has now been equipped with an intermediate width: LF Corpid SemiCondensed. The three sub-families come as OpenType fonts in a range of five weights, from Light to Black. All family members come with small caps.
The new Corpid SemiCondensed has double functionality. It is a no-frills, compact headline font that offers optimum legibility in sizes from small to huge. It is also a great space-saving text typeface for magazines, newsletters or annual reports: economic, versatile, and provided with several different numeral sets.
Greek and Cyrillic versions are available for all weights of LF Corpid III. www.lucasfonts.com

Taz III updated

The newly updated Taz III is the OpenType version of one of LucasFonts’ most popular type families. Taz was originally developed as a headline face for the Berlin newspaper Tageszeitung (Taz) and was later expanded into a 15-weight family, including a series of seven ultra-thin hairline fonts. Among the new features of Taz III OpenType is an alternate two-story ‘g’ and alternate ‘i’, ‘j’ and dieresis (‘ä’, etc.) with round points instead of square ones. The new Taz III version takes full advantage of OpenType, offering extra ligatures as well as several sets of numerals, including newly designed fractions. www.lucasfonts.com

Taz, the big issue

The Taz III family is an increasingly popular font for magazine design. Lately, the Scotland edition of The Big Issue – a great magazine sold by the homeless to earn respect, and an extra pound or two – was redesigned by the in-house design team. Senior designer Mark Neil selected Taz for headlines and short texts, and E Antiqua for features. “Taz III works brilliantly as our main display font and also as a text face. I wanted the main features to have a very distinct mature look, so E Antiqua was used as the text face for features.”
In case you might wonder: E Antiqua is the special newspaper version of TheAntiqua, LucasFonts’ contemporary oldstyle. www.lucasfonts.com

Jungle World’s new design

Jungle World is a Berlin-based political weekly. Many years ago, Luc(as) de Groot provided the hand-painted masthead and a special version of his Sun typeface for headlines. For body text he proposed a somewhat subversive solution, befitting the paper’s own editorial attitude. The columns were to be set in two very different fonts, Plantin and Minion, slightly adapted by Luc(as) to be equal in colour; these text fonts were to be alternated every other paragraph. The designers have used the principle more or less consistently over the years, and nobody ever complained.
In the course of 2007, however, the design was completely overhauled and again, Luc(as) played a major role in the redesign. He drew a completely new, seven-weight headline version of the Floris typeface, originally developed for the French daily Le Monde. In addition, a completely new Floris news text family was specially designed for use on Jungle World’s coarse newspaper stock.

Detail from poster made for the Dimension exhibition

Dimension der Fläche | Dimension of the plane

“Dimension of the plane – Communication design in Germany” is the title of a touring exhibition conceived and produced by the German Design Council for the Goethe Institute. It presents works by more than 40 communication designers from the fields of typography, graphic design, corporate design, digital media, and orientation. Curated by Erik Spiekermann, the Typography section features a small and exquisite selection of typographers and type designers. Luc(as) de Groot is proud to be a featured designer in this travelling exhibition, which will tour the worldwide network of Goethe Institutes for three years in three parallel editions. The exhibition premiered simultaneously at two sites: on December 6, 2007 at the Designhaus Darmstadt and on December 7, 2007 at the International Design Center Berlin. Learn more at the IDZ website.