Jeremy Tankard

Jeremy Tankard
Nationality British
Occupation Type designer
Notable work Bliss, Corbel, Aspect

Jeremy Tankard is a British type designer.[1][2][3][4][5] Tankard has designed retail fonts independently and for FontShop and Adobe.[6] His Corbel font designed for Microsoft has been included in Microsoft Office and Windows since 2006.[7][8][9]

Tankard has also designed custom corporate fonts for organisations such as Sheffield City Council, Falmouth University and Christchurch Art Gallery.[10][11][12][13][14]

Some of his fonts such as FF Disturbance and Blue Island are experimental and based on distorting the alphabet, through a unicase design in Disturbance and the use of ligatures to connect letters in unexpected ways in Blue Island.[3] Tankard’s Bliss design, used by Amazon, is more traditional and loosely based on humanist sans-serif designs such as Johnston, Gill Sans and Syntax.[15][16][17] Tankard studied at the Royal College of Art.[2][18]

References

  1. Yan, Jack. "Features: Jeremy Tankard". CAP. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Interview: Jeremy Tankard". Typographic Times. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  3. 1 2 "The Disturbing World of Jeremy Tankard". Kingston Publishing. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  4. Staunton, Brendan. "An interview with Jeremy Tankard". type.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  5. "QA with Jeremy Tankard". Camcreative. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  6. Papazian, Hrant. "Reviews: Fenland". Typographica. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  7. Levien, Raph. "Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection: A Fair and Balanced Review". Typographica. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  8. Van Wagener, Anne (18 February 2005). "The Next Big Thing in Online Type". Poynter Online. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  9. Neil Macmillan (2006). An A-Z of Type Designers. Laurence King Publishing. pp. 87–9. ISBN 978-1-85669-395-0.
  10. Bramley, Ellie Violet. "Subliminal power of city fonts". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  11. Tankard, Jeremy. "Commissions: Connect Sheffield". Jeremy Tankard Typography. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  12. Tankard, Jeremy. "Wayfarer". Jeremy Tankard Typography. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  13. "Commissions: Falmouth University". Jeremy Tankard Typography. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  14. Tankard, Jeremy. "Bliss Pro". Jeremy Tankard Typography. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  15. Coles, Stephen. "Questioning Gill Sans". Typographica. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  16. "Think London campaign". Fonts in Use. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  17. "Amazon Kindle logo and marketing". Fonts in Use. Retrieved 31 July 2016.

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