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Not all type revivals get inspiration from typographers who are long dead—or from typographers at all. David Siegel of Palo Alto has made architect Frank Ching’s handwriting into a hugely popular typeface called Tekton. Siegel originally designed Tekton for architects. He had long admired Ching’s drawings and books, and Ching agreed to draw up several sheets of his letterings for him. Siegel scanned and outlined them for use as models, but many of the final letters are not actually Ching’s. “You get twenty-five As, all of which are good, but you have to make the one A that will work forever. You fall in love with ten of them. Then you mold them together into the canonical A you can’t do with a pen.” Siegel says a letter that looks comely by itself may not dance well with partners. “You can get an A that looks good and an E that looks good, but they may not look good together.” Siegel took seven weeks to design Tekton. Then came the hard part: coming up with a name. “It’s almost as hard as making the face. So many names are taken. You have to look across all font names and all software program names. It takes thousands of dollars to get a good name searched out and registered.” Tekton was a huge hit as a display typeface the moment it was released by Adobe in 1989. Architects, its intended audience, almost never used it. But the text for the thought bubbles in the movie “Home Alone” were in Tekton. “For about a week you get all excited when you see your font,” says Siegel. “Then it gets old and you don’t want to see it anymore. Then it shows up in McDonald’s commercials, and you wish you’d never done it.
[ Type Minds, from Metroactive News & Issues, August 1996 ] Fascintating article written about digital type design back when there was the World Wide Web. (via timoni)
