Prismaset B Family Overview

Styles About the Font This sequel to the first LL Prismaset Tentatively named ‘The Sign- package (realised between 2003 writer Edition’, LL Prismaset 2 Prismaset Inline and 2016) presents ten additional compiles the results of this explo- derivations produced from the ration: ten new cuts of Prismaset exact same matrix, which share offering surprising formal richness Prismaset Fatline identical font metrics with the and variety, taking the develop- original cuts. ment of this classic decorative Fuelled by his penchant for multiline typeface to the extreme. Prismaset Carved stonecarving, Mauro Paolozzi had Three of the resulting fonts initiated further exploration of (Inline, Fatline, and Contrast) offer Prismaset’s potential after working complete ‘Alternate’ cuts, thus Prismaset Carved AM on digital emulations of his stone- offering further stylistic variation carving experiments in 2012. In col- of the same theme. laboration with Cornel Windlin The highest care was taken and Arve Båtevik, Paolozzi evalu- to preserve the spirit of Rudolf Prismaset Carved PM ated further formal solutions, Koch’s extraordinary ‘Prisma’ font, and they finally narrowed down which lend the resulting designs the choices from twenty options. their timeless aesthetic quality. Prismaset Crystal Båtevik drew up the chosen cuts, and in the course of this work proposed to refine some design Prismaset Diamond details, which eventually also led to a number of formal improvements Prismaset Ebony in the original Prismaset fonts. Prismaset Ivory Design James Goggin, Rafael Koch and Mauro Paolozzi (2003–14), re-developing Prismaset Contrast ‘Prisma’ (1928–31), an original design by Rudolf Koch. With thanks to Arve Båtevik, Laurenz Brunner, Jon Hares, Alex Rich and Cornel Windlin.

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LL Prismaset B – Specimen 2 Lineto Type Foundry Glyph Overview

Uppercase A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Punctuation ( . , : ; … ¡ ! ¿ ? ) [ & @ # ¶ § ] { - – — } U V W X Y Z « » ‹ › _ „ “ ” ‚ ‘ ’ " ' · • \ * / | ¦ ° † ‡ ℓ © ℗ ® ® ™ Lowercase a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Case Sensitive v w x y z Forms ( ) ( ) [ ] { } - – — ‹ › « »

Proportional, Currency, Mono Figures 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 � � � � � � � � � � Mathematical ₿ ¢ ¤ $ € ƒ £ ¥ + − × ÷ = ≠ > < ≥ ≤ ± ¬ ≈ Operators ~ ^ ◊ ∞ √ π µ Ω ∆ ∏ ∑ ∂ ∫ % ‰ Ligatures fi fl Alternates C Q R S a b c g j s t 1 1 3 4 6 7 9 Æ Ä Ö Std Accented À à Á á  â à ã Ä ä Å å Æ æ Ç ç È è É Characters Ü Ç ç à á â ã ä å ? ¿ @ € € ‰ ( ) … – Standard Western é Ê ê Ë ë Ì ì Í í Î î Ï ï Ð ð Ł ł Ñ ñ Œ œ Ò ò Fractions, Ó ó Ô ô Õ õ Ö ö Ø ø Š š Ù ù Ú ú Û û Denominators 1 ½ ↉ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅐ ⅛ Ü ü Ý ý Ÿ ÿ Ž ž Þ þ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ⅑ 1 � � � � � � � � � � Pro Accented Characters – Latin Ă ă Ǎ ǎ Ā ā Ą ą Ǽ ǽ Ć ć Č č Ĉ ĉ Ċ ċ Ď ď Đ Superscripts, Subscripts H ⁰ ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ H ₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉ Extension đ Ĕ ĕ Ě ě Ė ė Ē ē Ę ę Ğ ğ Ĝ ĝ Ģ ģ Ġ ġ Ħ ħ Ĥ ĥ Ĭ ĭ İ ı Ī ī Į į Ĩ ĩ IJ ij ȷ J j Ĵ ĵ Ķ ķ ĸĹ ĺ Ľ ľ Roman Numbers Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Ⅳ Ⅴ Ⅵ Ⅶ Ⅷ Ⅸ Ⅹ Ⅺ Ⅻ Ⅼ Ⅽ Ⅾ Ⅿ Ļ ļ Ŀ ŀ Ń ń ʼn Ň ň Ņ ņ Ŋ ŋ Ŏ ŏ Ő ő Ō ō Ǿ

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LL Prismaset B – Specimen 3 Lineto Type Foundry Layout Features

Case Sensitive Stylistic Set 1 Forms [secret] �SECRET� Rounded Radioaktivität Radioaktivität May–July MAY�JULY Alternates The Greatest! The Greatest!

«Hello» �HELLO� Stylistic Set 2 Alternate 1983 1983 Standard Numbers Ligatures five O five O 1764 1764

flavor flavor Stylistic Set 3 Alternate a Nachrichten Nachrichten Arbitrary Fractions 23 5/12 × 32 3/4 23 5⁄12 × 32 �⁄� Stylistic Set 4 Alternate b Bubble Metropolis Bubble Metropolis Superscript North1, East2 North¹, East² Stylistic Set 5 Alternate C, c CASIO CASIO Subscript H20 H₂O Jack me here… Jack me there… Ordinals 1a 1o 1ª 1º Stylistic Set 6 Alternate G GEIGERCOUNTER GEIGERCOUNTER

Stylistic Set 7 Alternate g Phasing Phasing

Stylistic Set 8 Alternate j Trajectory Trajectory

Stylistic Set 9 Alternate Q AQUABAHN AQUABAHN

Stylistic Set 10 Alternate R RADIOLAND RADIOLAND

Stylistic Set 11 Alternate S , s Sato-sato Sato-sato

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Stylistic Set 12 Alternate t Antenne Antenne

Stylistic Set 13 Alternate SCHNÖSEL SCHNÖSEL Umlauts ÜBER ÜBER GEBÄUDE GEBÄUDE

Stylistic Set 14 Alternate ? Raw footages? Raw footages? Try again? Try again?

Stylistic Set 15 Alternates €, ¥ 391 € 391 € 43 000 ¥ 43 000 ¥

Stylistic Set 16 Alternate @ [email protected] [email protected]

Stylistic Set 17 Alternate %, ‰ 2 % = 0,002 ‰ 2 % = 0,002 ‰

Stylistic Set 18 (Back Gring) (Back Gring) Alternate Parenthesis (GRAB) (GRAB)

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 5 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Family

200 Points CAN YOU FEEL IT 60 Points Jack Me till I Start to Scream

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 6 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B family

100 Points 36 Points Acid Rain Drecxiya M-D-Emm Big Fun FANTASY 72 Points C i E Good Life COSMIC HUMANA EP CARS INFOPHYSI X LL Prismaset B – Specimen 7 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B family

60 Points 36 Points This is Acid Jupiter Jazz “U used to hold me” Kool Kat Rec. Virgo Four Wanna Dance ? LARRY HEARD XXX TRACKS MUSIK BOX ZERKALO 48 Points 24 Points The Roland TB-303, was Neutron manufactured from 1981 Octave One to 1984 by the Roland coorporation in Japan. Phantasy Girl IT PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT RAIN FALLS OF CHICAGO HOUSE AND SMOKIN’ GANG ACID HOUSE MUSIC.

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 8 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Inline

150 Points – Alternate ? SS14 One Man Spaceship

132 Points 60 Points Melody 808 GROSS BEAT

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 9 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Inline

100 Points 84 Points – Rounded Alternates SS01 Aww EPR Effect FULL Shit ! MOON Chiwax 72 Points Faahhuuuu CONFESS JUNGLE TO U BROTHERS LL Prismaset B – Specimen 10 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Inline

60 Points 36 Points – Alternate Parenthesis SS18 R U Hot Enough Let the Music Sunrays take Control ( Say the Word ) WE’VE GOT TO MUSIC IS STERILISE THE KEY THE POPULATION 48 Points 24 Points – Tabular Numbers The Roland TR-606 Drumatix Nite Jewel is a programmable analog Neptune’s Lair synthesis drum machine. It was designed to be used Planck Factor with the TB-303 to provide A SIMPLE DRUM AND QUEER TRAX BASS ACCOMPANIMENT QUANTUM TO GUITARISTS.

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 11 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Fatline

150 Points – Alternate b SS04 Moog 1 Keybords

132 Points 60 Points Microkey MK3 KORG MS-20

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 12 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Fatline

100 Points 84 Points Alpha E-Dancer GHERKIN Box JERKS 72 Points – Alternate S, s SS11 Energy Hercules Clear IT’S A COLD D’T RAIN WORLD LL Prismaset B – Specimen 13 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Fatline

60 Points 36 Points – Case Sensitive Form Transmat J.M.Silk Three Chairs K-Alexi Virgo WBMX-FM LAURENT X YO YO GET FUNKY MR. LEE ZERFALL 48 Points 24 Points – Alternate Q – Alternate SS09 Numbers The Roland TR-707 Rhythm SS02 The Other Composer is a programm- Peo le Place able digital sample-based drum machine. It has fifteen Q-Base digitally sampled sounds. IT WAS A STAPLE IN EARLY RICK WILHITE HOUSE MUSIC, PARTICULARLY SHAKE SHAKIR IN ACID HOUSE.

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 14 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Carved

150 Points – Alternate S SS11 Omar-S JOHN FM

132 Points 60 Points Deep Sea X-RAY DWELLER

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 15 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Carved

100 Points 84 Points – Alternate G SS06 Azimuth D.I.E. GERALD Belleville DONALD 72 Points Three Fingers Inc. THE JAMES CLIMAX STINSON LL Prismaset B – Specimen 16 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Carved

60 Points 36 Points – Alternate C, c SS05 Sonic Sunset Kenny Dixon Jr Tyree Cooper Libra Libra The Unseen VOICES OF LIFE MYSTERY OF WALKING THRU LOVE THE SKY 48 Points 24 Points – Alternate R SS10 The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Love Can’t Composer, often referred to Turn Around simply as the 808, is a drum machine introduced in 1980. Over & Under and discontinued in 1983. IT WAS ONE OF THE PLANET E EARLIEST PROGRAMMABLE RON TRENT DRUM MACHINES.

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 17 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Carved AM & PM

150 Points – Alternate t SS12 Inner City Blues

132 Points 60 Points Flashing RAGE LIGHTS

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 18 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Carved AM & PM

100 Points 84 Points Aux 88 Dum Dum Extas Blake FRAGILE 72 Points – Alternate G Baxter SS06 Grava 4 CARL HIGH-TECH CRAIG JAZZ LL Prismaset B – Specimen 19 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Carved AM & PM

60 Points 36 Points – Alternate g SS07 Theo Parrish Jackin’ me Underground Around Resistance VINCE LAWRENCE KMS WE’RE ROCKING LET IT ROLL DOWN THE HOUSE 48 Points 24 Points Moodymann Roland’s TR-909 Rhythm Composer is an analog, Octave One and sample-based Rolando drum machine from 1983. THE MACHINE FEATURES SET IT OFF A 16-STEP SEQUENCER SOUL TRAIN AND A DRUM KIT.

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 20 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Crystal

150 Points Jeff Mills Model 500

132 Points 60 Points – Superscript E=MC² MP4 ROSARIO

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 21 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Crystal

100 Points 84 Points – Alternate % SS17 100 % CERN DOPPLER of EFFEKT Dissin’ U 72 Points Get Crazy ABYSS FRANKIE BFC KNUCKLES LL Prismaset B – Specimen 22 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Crystal

60 Points 36 Points – Alternate Q SS09 Jamie Principle Humana EP Quazar Joe Smooth Rhythim is Rhythim “ SO MANY TEARS ” IKUTARO SILICON VALLEY KAKEHASHI WORK THAT MUTHA 48 Points 24 Points Roger Linn’s LM-1 Drum Let Me Go Computer, manufactured by Metroplex Linn Electronics Inc. 1980–83, was the first drum machine to Neptune use digital samples. IT WAS ALSO ONE OF THE ON A CORNER FIRST PROGRAMMABLE CALLED JAZZ DRUM MACHINES.

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 23 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Diamond

150 Points – Alternate t SS12 Huston’s Astroworld

132 Points 60 Points Mike Dean X-101 KARL COX

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 24 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Diamond

100 Points 84 Points – Alternate a SS03 Actress Ebonics Farle Black GET BUSY Sea 72 Points Here I Cum Cellular JACK THE DATA HOUSE LL Prismaset B – Specimen 25 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Diamond

60 Points 36 Points – Rounded Alternates SS01 Strings of Life The Journey Ten City Home Voice Activated Westbrook Records KOOL ROCK YA’LL BE EASY ! STEADY Z-FACTOR 48 Points 24 Points The DX 100 is a portable Lidell Townsell budget DX synthesizer from Mike Dunn Yamaha Corporation. Like all DXs it uses Frequency No UFOs Modulation ( FM ) synthesis. IT'S NOT THE EASIEST TO PROMISED LAND PROGRAM BUT CAN RESULT IN RED PLANET SOME EXCELLENT SOUNDS.

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 26 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Ebony

150 Points – Alternate S, s SS11 G-Funk Infophysics

132 Points 60 Points – Alternate C SS05 Mad Mike CLUB HOUSE

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 27 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Ebony

100 Points 84 Points Axis DJ Funk E-Smoove Bad Boy FUK DAT CLUB 72 Points French Kiss LONLEY GLENN U. CHEZ’ H. MÜLLER LL Prismaset B – Specimen 28 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Ebony

60 Points 36 Points – Alternate R SS10 Oxyplasmic I Like It Gyration Beam Jungle Wonz Robert Hood SHAREVARI K . SHELBY TERRENCE PARKER LE’NOIZ YOUR ONLY FRIEND 48 Points 24 Points – Alternate Numbers Lifest les of SS01 Roland SH-101 32 Keys Synthesizer the La to Café Monophonic and Analog MARSHALL SAWTOOTH SQUARE/PWM JEFFERSON OCTAVE-DIVIDED NEON FALLS SQUARE SUB-OSCILLATOR

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 29 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Ivory

150 Points Acid Trip Funky Beat

132 Points 60 Points – Alternate t SS12 Daft Punk L.N.R KRAFTWERK

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 30 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Ivory

100 Points 84 Points 8-203 X Colonel A . DJ Pierre Bab FARM BOY wants 72 Points Fast Eddie TO Ice Castles RIDE HER WAY LL Prismaset B – Specimen 31 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Ivory

60 Points 36 Points – Alternate a SS003 Skypainter Juan Atkins Trans Europa Express Kilobahn Video Clash We Can Work It Out Levon Vincent WÉMÈ RECORDS MASTER C & J YOLANDA 48 Points 24 Points – Alternate Parenthesis SS18 AKAI S 900 Nyce & Slo – Case Sensitive Forms (Released 1986 ) Overyohead Professional Parris Mitchell Digital Sampler X 7000 BOARD SAMPLER ROY DAVIS JR. ( 1986 ); AKAI S 700 ROMANTHONY RACK-MOUNT ( 1987 )

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 32 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Contrast

150 Points Head Bang Justice

132 Points 60 Points H.Dijon X-103 SATO-SATO

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 33 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Contrast

100 Points 84 Points – Alternate b SS04 ‘69’ Dance Mania Bubble 1 FXHE 72 Points CHEZ Hot Hands DAMIER Hoola DJ DEZ JOE LEWIS LL Prismaset B – Specimen 34 Lineto Type Foundry LL Prismaset B Contrast

60 Points 36 Points “ That is incorrect…” Kenny Larkin Van Christie Levon Vincent Washing Machine X-103 Tephra EP LAND OF YOU’RE THE ONE 4 ME CONFUSION ZWISCHENWELT 48 Points 24 Points – Alternate j – Tabular SS08 Maurice Numbers Akai MPC ( MIDI Production Center ) On & On Engineer Roger Linn Project Shout Out Released 1988 DIGITAL SAMPLING SATOSHI TOMIIE DRUM MACHINE THE QUEST AND MIDI SEQUENCER

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 35 Lineto Type Foundry Technical Information

Latin Afar Jju Sena Open Type aalt Access All Alternates ss08 Stylistic Set 08 Afrikaans Kabuverdianu Serbian Features case Case-Sensitive Forms ss09 Stylistic Set 09 Albanian Kabyle Shambala dnom Denominators ss10 Stylistic Set 10 Asu Kalaallisut Shona frac Fractions ss11 Stylistic Set 11 Azerbaijani Kalenjin Sidamo liga Standard Ligatures ss12 Stylistic Set 12 Basque Kamba Slovak numr Numerators ss13 Stylistic Set 13 Bemba Kikuyu Slovenian ordn Ordinals ss14 Stylistic Set 14 Bena Kinyarwanda Soga salt Stylistic Alternates ss15 Stylistic Set 15 Bosnian Koro Somali sinf Scientific Inferiors ss16 Stylistic Set 16 Breton Koyra Chiini Sorbian, Lower ss01 Stylistic Set 01 ss17 Stylistic Set 17 Catalan Koyraboro Senni Sorbian, Upper ss02 Stylistic Set 02 ss18 Stylistic Set 18 Central Morocco Kurdish Sotho, Northern ss03 Stylistic Set 03 subs Subscript Tamazight Langi Sotho, Southern ss04 Stylistic Set 04 sups Superscript Chiga Latvian Spanish ss05 Stylistic Set 05 tnum Tabular Figures Colognian Lithuanian Swahili ss06 Stylistic Set 06 zero Slashed Zero Cornish Luo Swati ss07 Stylistic Set 07 Crimean Tatar Luyia Swedish Croatian Machame Tachelhit Codepage Please refer to the Technical Document Czech Makonde Taita Danish Malagasy Taroko Dutch Malay Teso Copyright No part of this publication may Lineto GmbH assumes no resposi- Embu Maltese Tsonga be reproduced, stored in a retrieval bility for any errors or inaccura- English Manx Tswana system, or transmitted, in any cies, makes no warranty of any Esperanto Maori Turkish form or by any means, electronic, kind (express, implied or statutory) Estonian Meru Tyap mecanical, photocopying, record- with respect to this publication, Faroese Moldavian Vunjo ing or otherwise, without the prior and expressly disclaims any and Filipino Morisyen Welsh written consent of the publisher. all warranties of merchantability, Finnish Ndebele, North Wolof This publication and the informa- fitness for particular purposes French Ndebele, South Xhosa tion herein is furnished AS IS, is and noninfringement of third party Frisian West Norwegian Bokmål Yoruba subject to change without notice, rights. Brand or product names, Friulian Norwegian Nynorsk Zulu and should not be constured as a used in this publication, are the Ga Nyanja commitment by Lineto GmbH. trademarks or registered trade- Galician Nyankole marks of their respective holders. Ganda Occitan German Oromo German, Low Polish German, Swiss Portuguese Gusii Romanian Hungarian Romansh Icelandic Rombo Igbo Rwa Indonesian Saho Interlingua Samburu Irish Sami Northern Italian Sango

LL Prismaset B – Specimen 36 Lineto Type Foundry