Just Revealed: 3 Colors Typesetting With PowerStation Fonts

January 31, 2011 on 6:51 pm | By | In News, Notes | 1 Comment

PowerStation in 3 Colors

It’s always nice when someone reveals something new to you about your own work. That’s what has recently happened in the preparation of the Creative Characters newsletter that MyFonts has just published on my work. While helping to prepare font samples for the sidebar, Anthony Noel was experimenting with my PowerStation fonts, and stumbled across a capability that I had not intended.

PowerStation Sample

In setting the copy he inadvertantly combined both PowerStation Block and PowerStation Wedge. When I designed this font for 2-color layered typesetting, I had not even considered combining these two fonts on layers, one over the other. But that’s exactly what Mr. Noel did, with what for me were unexpectedly interesting results. I would have never thought it would work, and so never tried it.

So what’s come out of this is that we’ve discovered that PowerStation can now be typeset in three colors. Two color typesetting was always achievable with either the PowerStation Block fonts or the PowerStation Wedge fonts. The difference is that one would need BOTH of those packages in order to set type in three colors. PowerStation my be purchased from Alphabet Soup Type Founders.

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  1. 3 is better than none! You are one clever dude, Michael!

    Comment by José Cruz — February 4, 2011 #

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