Typeface dream

Last night I had a funny dream. I dreamt of a typeface.

You would think a typeface would not make a very interesting topic for a dream, but there it was. I could visualize the fluid shapes of its glyphs, its upper and lower case letterforms, its elegant punctuation marks, its friendly strokes, its underlying rational geometric construction, its various sizes and weights.

It was not a typeface I knew. It was a new typeface. It was simple, legible, elegant, friendly, balanced, interesting.

Before my eyes, the glyphs appeared, then faded leaving room for new ones to appear. Sometimes group of letters would appear together (“AVION”, “ffl”, “ae”), but no recognizable word.

Of course, as soon as I woke up the memory of this wonderful typeface started fading. Maybe I’ll get to meet it in my dreams again, but this time I’ll have a notebook at the ready by my bedside…

On a somewhat related note, the default font in Microsoft Office 2007 is no longer the venerable Times New Roman, but a new versatile font created by Lucas de Groot, Calibri.


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28 Nov 2006 at 14:57 Anonymous

“Avion” is a word in Spanish, it means plane. Courious, isnt it?

28 Nov 2006 at 17:08 arno

It also means plane in my native language, French. It’s traditionally used to check the kerning of a font (particularly to check the “overlap” of the A and V).

29 Nov 2006 at 04:27 Hendy

Wow! Some illustration will be enjoyable…

29 Nov 2006 at 10:16 Mark

Avon in Celtic means River.

I didn’t know that MS were finally dropping Times New Roman. I know a lot of people like it, but I personally am sick to death of it, so this is good news!

30 Nov 2006 at 03:56 fontti-intoilija

The replacement of Times New Roman is welcome, but I am wondering why they did not replace it with a real font, like Comic Sans. :)

Actually the “C fonts” that came with Vista and new Office look quite good. I’m looking forward using and seeing them used, both in Web and Print.

Congratulations for your typeface related dream I like fonts but don’t dream in them yet. I hope to see as sweet dream some day.

But about the dream, that’s just your subconscious talking. As you and others have noted AVION means a plane and planes do fly, or fflae as you like to spell it. :)