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FF Mister K exhibition in Lahti, Finland (Photo by Indra Kupferscmid). #typography #fontfont

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The FF Mister K font family originated in the manuscripts of Austro-Hungarian writer Franz Kafka.

The FF Mister K font family originated in the manuscripts of Austro-Hungarian writer Franz Kafka.

On display September 17 – November 8, 2012 When one thinks of the novel “The Trial” by Frank Kafka, gloominess and pessimism quickly come to mind. But a look into Kafka’s wonderfully handwritten notebooks shows there is also another side to this writer: an ironic, absurd, humorous and light side full of wisdom. And just … Continue reading Mister K & Franz Kafka →

A fun family with 4 styles including Regular, Onstage, Crossout and Informal. #fontshop #typography

Postcards designed by Julia Sysmäläinen for TYPO Berlin 2009 showing her typeface family FF Mister K in use. About FF Mister K It was a great temptation and challenge for Julia Sysmäläinen to design FF Mister K, a typeface inspired by manuscripts of Franz Kafka and named after main characters of the novels “Das Schloß” and “Der Prozess”. Kafka’s manuscripts reveal a unique handwriting style with strong calligraphic features. Looking closer, glyph shapes derived from the Latin as well as the…

A total of 173 entries was received, from 27 countries: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and US. US entries: 71 (41%), 3 winners (23%); Non-US entries: 102 (59%), 10 winners (77%). The … Read more

The manuscripts of author Franz Kafka had such a profound impact on Finnish graphic and type designer Julia Sysmäläinen that she decided to convert his handwriting with its unusually strong calligraphic characteristics into a digital script. The philologist took on the challenge to transform in Kafka’s rather eccentric letter forms into an balanced typographic flow. This meant not only creating hundreds of ligatures – each of them consisting of two, three or even four single characters – but…

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Anlässlich der Ausstellung »Mister K und Franz Kafka bei Mota Italic Berlin«, hat die Gestalterin der FF Mister K und Grafikdesignerin Julia Sysmalainen die schöne kleine Publikation “Too long to tweet” herausgebracht: Sie enthält eine Mischung von humorvollen und nachdenklich geschriebenen Texten, die alle etwas mit Berlin zu tun haben. Geschrieben sind sie von Designern aus der Berliner Typoszene – und von Franz Kafka himself. Die Texte wurden alle in der FF Mister K gesetzt, einer…

Anlässlich der Ausstellung »Mister K und Franz Kafka bei Mota Italic Berlin«, hat die Gestalterin der FF Mister K und Grafikdesignerin Julia Sysmalainen die schöne kleine Publikation “Too long to tweet” herausgebracht: Sie enthält eine Mischung von humorvollen und nachdenklich geschriebenen Texten, die alle etwas mit Berlin zu tun haben. Geschrieben sind sie von Designern aus der Berliner Typoszene – und von Franz Kafka himself. Die Texte wurden alle in der FF Mister K gesetzt, einer…