Updating AndrewAndreas

In 1994 I designed AndrewAndreas, an all-purpose sans-serif face useful for both text and display. It was a low-contrast family with three weights, a regular, a bold, and an extra-bold. At the time a three-weight family was not unusually sparse, but today it is for a legible sans. Hence, it was time for an update, adding more weights and also oblique styles, because sometimes text calls for italics and modern word processors do not fake italics in the way that some ancient programs did. The new AndrewAndreas family has twelve members in six weights, each with an oblique style. In the picture below the original members are show in white.

The oblique styles simply slant the upright styles and do not change the letter forms. However, these style (except for the black-oblique style) contain three sets open-type stylistic alternatives that can make the oblique styles look more like true italics by altering letters a, f, i j, and l, as illustrated below.

In 2019 I created a 30-font family of sans-serif faces called Yassitf that was also intended to be a versatile family useful for both text and display. Below is a comparison of it and AndrewAndreas, with AndrewAndreas first and Yassitf below it. Two weights are used for the comparison. There are many small differences.

The revised AndrewAndreas family is available on myfonts and fontspring.

TessieSomeMore

TessieSomeMore is a new typeface of tessellations in the Tessie series. Like the previous 18 members, it consists of two styles, a solid style that must be properly colored to be useful and an outlined style that can be used alone or in a layer over the solid style.

Most of the tessellations are Escher-like, that is, they resemble real-world objects such as insects (16), birds (11), animals (6), other objects or symbols (4). Another ten are not Escher-like but are geometric or abstract shapes that are visually appealing.

Most were designed with the aid of Tesselmaniac!. A few resemble shapes in previous Tessie fonts but were different enough that I included them. The tessellations include 27 different items from the Grünbaum and Shepard classification and eleven from the Heesch classification.

TessieSomeMore is available at myfonts.

(See also this post at mazepuzzles.blogpspot.com.)