Babyfat
RELEASED BY:
P22 Foundry ☞
DESIGNERS:
Milton Glaser
James Grieshaber
RELEASE DATE:
Week 16
DETAILS:
• Babyfat is an iconic forced perspective 3-D font, which lands as the fourth and final installment in a series of fonts honoring the late great Milton Glaser.
• Available as a collection of 9 layerable font styles.
LINKS:
Competitive Set:
Buxom (via Fonts In Use) ☞
From the Foundry:
“This revival includes the original lowercase for the first time in digital form. Besides the three original styles (Outline, Shaded, and Black) made for photo typesetting, the new P22 Glaser Babyfat introduces six additional variations to allow the user to easily colorize the type as Glaser envisioned. The Keyline, Fill, Glyph, Left, Right, and Down font styles give the user nearly infinite options to create dynamic chromatic effects.
P22 Glaser Babyfat was based on original drawings and phototype proofs from the Milton Glaser Studios archives. Typographic punctuation and sorts were imagined by James Grieshaber to work with Glaser’s design, as well as diacritics to accommodate most European languages. Over the years there have been many typefaces that borrowed heavily from the Glaser designs, but these are the only official fonts approved by Milton Glaser Studio and the Estate of Milton Glaser.”
NOTES:
Its perhaps not the most reached-for display face you could put in your library, but Babyfat is one of those fonts that you just want. I love that P22 has been making this tribute series to Milton Glaser. Glaser’s work was and is truly iconic, with such unique and genuine perspective that’s rarely seen in today’s design landscape. Releasing Babyfat gives every designer out there a chance to step into the shoes of Milton Glaser and do something a little different and perhaps explore a new way of expressing oneself — whether that’s a bit of retro-ism, fun experimental layering of fonts and textures, or a tribute done with great reverence and respect. I’m so glad there’s a beautifully done and digitally versatile avenue to access Glaser’s work now… Editorial Designers take note! I hope to see this in use very soon.
The foundry quotes Milton Glaser as saying “this is the first alphabet I ever designed”, which is awesome. It got me really thinking about how so many first fonts from budding type designers are usually pretty rudimentary, a little rough around the edges, and usually rooted in something that’s come before. Its so rare to have a first font be a work of such originality, never mind something so bold and outlandish as a 3D shadow font.