Gabor Plakát is a typeface created by Jean-Renaud Cuaz in 2018. This typography comes from Mermoz, a series of capitals designed in 1983 by Hungarian-born graphic designer Paul Gabor (1913-1992). The posters (plakát in Hungarian), which he created in Budapest in the 1940s and 1950s and for which he designed the typographic style of the titles, served as the basis for his capitals, inspired by Roman lapidary engravings.
This series of capitals, with alternative shapes, was created by Paul Gabor in 1983 to fit into a redesign of identity documents as part of a research program on the visual identity of the French Republic. He created the RF monogram and left it to Jean-Renaud Cuaz to create a calligraphic Marianne. The administrative materials - passport, national identity card, driving license, voter's card, family book - were exhibited at the 52nd Salon des Artistes Décorateurs (SAD) in Paris, at the Grand Palais. They had been produced within the Center de Création Typographique, the TypoGabor design studio directed by Paul Gabor.
Jean-Renaud Cuaz was commissioned by Paul Gabor within the CCT to finalize the typographic execution of Mermoz according to his drawings on tracing paper. Thirty-five years later, and to pay homage to him, Jean-Renaud Cuaz created Gabor Plakát, an adaptation of Mermoz into a complete typographic family: creation of lowercase letters, small capitals, alternative characters and ligatures, in five roman and italic weights, which integrate perfectly with the capitals imagined by Paul Gabor.
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Gabor Plakát is a typeface created by Jean-Renaud Cuaz in 2018. This typography comes from Mermoz, a series of capitals designed in 1983 by Hungarian-born graphic designer Paul Gabor (1913-1992). The posters (plakát in Hungarian), which he created in Budapest in the 1940s and 1950s and for which he designed the typographic style of the titles, served as the basis for his capitals, inspired by Roman lapidary engravings.
This series of capitals, with alternative shapes, was created by Paul Gabor in 1983 to fit into a redesign of identity documents as part of a research program on the visual identity of the French Republic. Jean-Renaud Cuaz was commissioned by Paul Gabor to finalize the typographic execution of Mermoz according to his drawings on tracing paper.
Thirty-five years later, and to pay homage to him, Jean-Renaud Cuaz created Gabor Plakát, an adaptation of Mermoz into a complete typographic family: creation of lowercase letters, small capitals, alternative characters and ligatures, in five roman and italic weights, which integrate perfectly with the capitals imagined by Paul Gabor.
#typography #typefaces #fonts #glyphs #typedesign #typographicdesign #typedesigner #typeinspiration #lettering #calligraphy #signpainting #branding #logotype #identitydesign #designinspiration #contemporarytype #moderntype #graphicdesign #eyemagazine #communicationarts #thedailytype #etapes #ligatures
