Started in 2009. An early version was used for
the identity of the Bloo school in Lyon and made available from
Éditions
205 under the name Bloo. An extended and
completely redesigned version was released by 205TF in Sep. 2022, now named CX80.
“Inspired by Jean Alessandrini’s drawings in Codex80 which
shows archetypal types with ‘exotic’ names: simplices, emparectes,
emparectes à congés, deltapodes, etc.” [Bloo
specimen]
“The CX80 typeface is a ‘machine’ as rudimentary as it is
atypical. Four kinds of serifs are combined in the same font: sans
serifs, triangular serifs, sharp rectangular serifs,
and More…
Started in 2009. An early version was used for the identity of the Bloo school in Lyon and made available from Éditions 205 under the name Bloo. An extended and completely redesigned version was released by 205TF in Sep. 2022, now named CX80.
“Inspired by Jean Alessandrini’s drawings in Codex80 which shows archetypal types with ‘exotic’ names: simplices, emparectes, emparectes à congés, deltapodes, etc.” [Bloo specimen]
“The CX80 typeface is a ‘machine’ as rudimentary as it is atypical. Four kinds of serifs are combined in the same font: sans serifs, triangular serifs, sharp rectangular serifs, and ‘smoother’ rectangular serifs. Each letter can exhaust all possible combinations: up to 256 variations for any one sign!” [205TF]
