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John Downer (1951-) is an American sign painter, typography and logo designer. Downer started his career as a sign painter. Among his most famous digital fonts are Iowan Old Style, Roxy, Triplex Italic, and Brothers.
Downer studied at Washington State University and the University of Iowa. His work is featured among others in the 2014 documentary List of Painters . He has lectured on the type and design of the sign at the conference and at The Cooper Union.
Video John Downer (sign painter)
Design Typeface
- Iowan Old Style - Aldine's old style serif
- Roxy (Font Bureau) - stroke-modulated sans-serif
- Triplex Italic (Emigre)
- Brothers (Emigre) - featuring wedge-serif influenced by nineteenth-century writing
- Paperback (Industrial House) - serif text face with optical size
- SamSans - humanist sans-serif
- Vendetta (Emigre) - inspired by ancient Venetian serif font but with sharp serif
- Board (Emigre) - a concise wedge-serif look, only for capital letters
- Ironmonger (Font Bureau) - alphabet display of all angular letters inspired by letters in buildings
- Simona (Design Lab) - serif, similar to the work of Fournier and Bodoni
Maps John Downer (sign painter)
Typecaces proprietary
- Gonnick [for Larry Gonnick cartoonist]
- Screenmax (bitmap serif typefaces on 7 pixels x-height in Roman, Italic, Bold and Black)
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References
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External links
- Schriftdesigner John Downer - Klingspor Museum article about John Downer (Germany)
- John Downer Speedballs (Typographica)
- Sostav (Russia) - the page on the writing and the influence of Downer
- Type design in Iowa - Luc Devroye's Page in Downer and other Iowa-based designers
- MyFonts
- John Downer: Signs of paper
- John Downer, TYPO Berlin (Germany)
- Profile page of Font Bureau
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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