The Font Adventures of Indiana Jones
In the 80s, my typing-teacher mom would come home from work with batches of failed typing exams, which I would promptly turn into secret agent spy notes or abstract art for my action figures. In my undergrad days at The University of the Arts, I was slightly obsessed with the Russian artist Ivan Puni and did a series of paintings featuring Cyrillic script (see cover art for this Spotify playlist ). Post-college, I made an experimental film about letters as objets d’art called CHARACTER (2002). This recurring letter obsession led me to excavate some truths about the fonts circling our favorite archeologist. Did I say “truths?” I meant ‘facts’ – see Dr. Tyree down the hall for truths. Anyway, alongside me for the journey was graphic designer Amanda Krenos, who taught me terms like typeface (name of the letter design), font (typeface in a certain size), and serifs (the handles on certain typefaces; no handles = sans serif). Here’s what our research dug up… The logo is availabl...
