Typeco releases it's third font family—Cypher.

Cypher is a technological looking font that attempts to employ the Gestalt principal of closure in it's design. It may, at larger sizes look like some sort of code or a bunch of dots and dashes, but when viewed at smaller sizes it falls together into legible words.

The narrowest form of this font family was first inspired by an experiment to try to make a legible upper and lower alphabet with the smallest possible grid that would still describe the letterforms. The original conclusion was that it could be done in a 3x6 grid. This made a fun design exercise, but it makes a lousy font. The grid was expanded a bit for aesthetic reasons, but not restricted too severely and so occasionally goes wider for the certain letterforms. From this a whole family of widths and weights was born, and rather than simply obliquing for italics, a true italic of sorts was created.

Cypher is a versatile family of 24 fonts—4 widths, each with 3 weights and their accompanying italics.

Typeco is an electronic type foundry for the designs of principal, James Grieshaber, as well as a provider of typographic services and solutions. Services offered by Typeco include font identification, signature fonts, logo fonts and handwriting fonts. Solutions include custom designed typefaces, logos and trademarks, branding and graphic design.

James Grieshaber has been active in the typographic community for several years. Grieshaber most recently was on staff of P22 Type Foundry and helped establish International House of Fonts. He has been honored with an award of Excellence in Type Design from Association Typographique International (ATypI) for his Gothic Gothic type design. He has now started his own company, Typeco, to offer his services to those in typographic need and showcase his typographic vision.

Contact info:
Typeco
PO Box 10661
Rochester, NY 14610
Phone: 585.230.1674
Email: contact@typeco.com
Web: http://www.typeco.com

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