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Bifur Family
I thought I would start my first blog with typefaces and to discuss when the certain font came from and how it’s used in today designs.
History
Bifur was designed by A. M. Cassandre and released in 1929 by Deberny & Peignot of Paris. The font is remarkable for its visually exciting two-tone deco look and dramatic simplification of the letterforms.
Historically produced in variety of 1- and 2-color versions, I’ve re-created Bifur as a set of six fonts which can be combined in layers to easily create high-resolution text graphics.
The front cover of APS mag
As you can see the font is getting used in very retro 80 styles on the Advanced Photoshop Magazine, I like how they have added a gradient to the font which is top to bottom.
I found when using this font it was good to edit it in Illstrutator CS4, you can change the lines to a different colour so you get a effect which is two tone effect.
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In my option I find this font very chunky and not easy to use in design, it only works when you try to create a design with a retro or minimal look to it.
With this font set i like how they have added the extra detail with the lines on the letters so it’s not like every other font, with the font it’s best to use it in full caps.
My design aim for this weekend is to use this font in a photo manipulation project, the design will have font as title tag like most of the images.
Overall the font I would give it 7 out of 10
You can find a free version at this website: http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=bifur