Next release: Adso
The probable forthcoming release of the BAT is the Adso typeface. Created by Bruno Bernard, Adso is a modern blackletter display type, and designed to be at the same time legible, contemporaneous, and somehow familiar to nowadays readers. We can't tell more for the moment ! Nevertheless you can already get a preview of this creation by visiting the author's portfolio, or in the latest issue of Slanted magazine.
Announced for april in Slanted, Adso is actually postponed to september. Stay tuned, and to be the first to know, don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed of this Journal !
Slanted
Slanted is a german quarterly magazine, specialised in typography and experimental graphic design. Its tenth issue is dedicated to blackletter typefaces and focuses particularly on contemporary experimentations.
One may have the feeling that blackletter types are the slavish translation of eponym calligraphic models invented in the Middel-Age or during the Renaissance. Indeed, there are relatively few typeface proposals where a genuine language is invented, sailing apart from calligraphy, just like roman types from the Renaissance did with their calligraphic inspiration. The romantism of XIXth century, along with the 1930s where rare eras where such attempts were performed.
In this Slanted issue you can find a spread dedicated to Adso, and a whole stack of other experimentations with different purposes and options. This profusion tends to arouse the idea that a new era of blackletter revival is dawning.
