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█ (RELEASE INFO) ████ RELEASE DATE: 18/08/2005
█ ▓▓ ▐███▌ SiZE iN MB : 02 x 1.44MB
█ ██ FONT NAME : ITC CONDUIT COMPLETE FAMILY PACK
█ ██ PUBLISHER : International Typeface Corporation
█ ██ PRIZE : $403 TYPE : Postscript
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█ (RELEASE NOTES) ██ █
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█ ██ Mark Van Bronkhorst says he had parking lot signs in mind when ██ █
█ ██ he designed ITC Conduit. "It's the kind of lettering you might ██ █
█ ██ find on boilers, assembly diagrams, and desiccant packets," he ██ █
█ ██ explains. "It's plain, grid-based, visually incompetent, yet ██ █
█ ██ legible and direct." ██ █
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█ ██ The design was "a cut-and-paste job" constructed from a set of ██ █
█ ██ character parts, according to van Bronkhorst. As he developed ██ █
█ ██ the face, the 90 degree turns on the shapes reminded him of ██ █
█ ██ electrical conduits; hence the name. ██ █
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█ ██ "I deliberately broke every optical rule in making the italics ██ █
█ ██ and weights," says van Bronkhorst. "The italic is merely a ██ █
█ ██ skewed version of the roman, with no visual adjustment. I did, ██ █
█ ██ however, create substitutions for the letters a, f, g, and E ██ █
█ ██ to give an ironic 'italic' feel to an otherwise obliqued face. ██ █
█ ██ The weights are a form of computer-generated swelling û think ██ █
█ ██ edema." ██ █
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█ ██ After ITC Conduit's release in 1997, Fast Company magazine ██ █
█ ██ asked van Bronkhorst to develop additional, custom weights. ██ █
█ ██ With the launch of Extra Light, Regular, Extra Bold, and Black ██ █
█ ██ weights, plus new small caps and old style figures for all ██ █
█ ██ weights, ITC Conduit went from six fonts to 35 designs. ██ █
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█ ██ Taking the face to such extremes û particularly the Black ██ █
█ ██ weight û was both scary and fun for van Bronkhorst and Alan ██ █
█ ██ Greene, who also worked on the project. "Given the concept ██ █
█ ██ that ITC Conduit is stiff and na∩ve, we felt we could get away ██ █
█ ██ with murder on the shapes," says van Bronkhorst. "Our friend ██ █
█ ██ Erik Spiekermann describes the Black as 'wonderfully stupid.' ██ █
█ ██ We quite agree." ██ █
█ ██ ██ █
█ ██ Mark Van Bronkhorst has enjoyed lettering since childhood. He ██ █
█ ██ is principal of MvB Design in Albany, California, where he ██ █
█ ██ provides a wide range of graphic design services. ██ █
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