In my case, these were script faces, in particular hand-lettered script faces, such as the ones you might find on the jersey of your local softball team. However, in order to create a typeface with a slightly wider applicability than a hand-drawn script, many of the forms had to be simplified and many script features had to be stylized. The final alphabet, therefore, is a combination of fairly rational, geometric shapes sprinkled throughout with whimsical and calligraphy-inspired characters. Suburban also pays homage, albeit in the tiniest of details, to Jeffery Keedy's Keedy Sans and Barry Deck's Template Gothic and Arbitrary Sans, three typefaces I continue to use and admire no end. In addition, while designing Suburban, I paid close attention to avoid treading accidentally on Keedy's as yet unreleased typeface Manuscript.
Creativity knows no bounds.
Inc. All rights reserved. Inc. Typefaces shown in this catalog are original designs that are available exclusively from the Emigre Fonts Library. Emigre Fonts, Arbitrary, Backspacer, Base, Big Cheese, Blockhead, Cholla, Citizen, Dalliance, Dead History, Democratica, Dogma, Elektrix, Emperor, Emigre, Exocet, FellaParts, Filosofia, Journal, Keedy, Lunatix, Mason, Matrix, Missionary, Modula, Motion, MrsEaves, Narly, NotCaslon, Oakland, Oblong, Ottomat, OutWest, Platelet, Quartet, Remedy, Sabbath Black, Senator, SodaScript, Suburban, Tarzana, Template Gothic, Totally Gothic, Triplex, Universal, Variex, Vendetta, Whirligig and ZeitGuys are Trademarks of Emigre Graphics.