February 22nd, 2012
Urban Planet: Chattanooga’s Type Face
By Hilary Best // No Comments
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.
GOOD asks "can a font help a city make a comeback"? Designers D.J. Trischler and Jeremy Dooler are trying to do just that. They believe their font, "Chatype", to be the first of its kind - a grassroots font developed specifically for city branding purposes. The geometric slab serif draws on local visual references including Cherokee script, Coca Cola's font, the typeface of the local train, the city's industrial past and its cluster of technological startups.
Image from GOOD
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