This text-only record is part of the interactive AIGA Design Archives where you can view more details, zoom into images and explore other works in the definitive online resource on American design.
 |
Design Category
Typographic design, 2004
Design firm
Hoefler & Frere-Jones (New York, New York)
Collection
(2005) AIGA 365: 26
|
Many decorated typefaces are either decidedly stodgy or insufferably hip. In developing Cyclone, we identified one of the culprits-six letters whose design can dramatically polarize the disposition of a typeface. Cyclone includes alternates for each of these characters, whose addition allows the face to appear either solemn and commanding or exuberant and spry.