Artists with custom typefaces / artists who have extensively used a single typeface consistently

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In a Twitter thread, I asked

Open question: are there any examples of contemporary visual artists who have and use bespoke fonts? I’m sure there must be, but I’m not sure if I know of them yet.

People had a lot of good replies. Here, I’ll document the highlights, and I’ll later make a blog post out of this list.

• Redaction, a super-cool serif-to-pixel font made for a MoMA PS1 exhibit, made by Forest Young, Jeremy Mickel, and Graham Bradley
• Olaf Nicolai had a font made by Lineto
• The exhibition The Choice is Yours by R Luke DuBois featured a custom font by Ksenya Samarskaya
• Ed Ruscha made a blocky font
• Illustrator Quentin Blake had a font of his handwriting made by Toshi Omigari
• Paul Chan made a font which was apparently downloadable at one point
• Tauba Auerbach has made a number of experimental typefaces, like this one
• A custom typeface was drawn for display type for an Edgar Degas exhibit at the MoMA in 2016
• Lawrence Weiner designed a font for his artwork
• ComicCraft has made tons of comic book fonts, and because my partner works on graphic novels, I know that this is a relatively common practice in publishing. But, as we said above, this might be too much of a different path for our project’s focus.
• After Rémy Zaugg used all caps Univers 85 (Black) once, he never changed to another typeface until his death in 2005.

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Nice article: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/is-it-art-or-is-it-type-what-we-learn-when-language-is-built-not-written/