Anoscript is a connected version of Ano, with the same weights and geometric letter shape. Both typefaces were designed for use in Another Man magazine. Various customisations including outlining and removing internal letter spaces were applied in layout.

Cover of the System 7 album 777. Like Altitude, the photograph – with all type and effects part of the photograph not added in post-production – was taken by Trevor Key and art directed by David James. The type is an early, custom version of Metsys. The back cover and booklet use Gerstner Original, a typeface with a similar fluid, techy and sci-fi quality.

Issue I (“eye”) of art magazine A Be Sea, published by Sebastian Boyle. For this issue the front and back cover and headline typography was rephotographed 8mm film. Other headline type was rephotographed halftone printouts, all using our Elephant typeface. See also Issue G, also using Elephant.

A 12 inch single for ’90s soft-tech pioneers System 7, fronted by Steve Hillage, previously guitarist for Prog Rock band Gong. The front cover was photographed by Trevor Key. The System 7 Altitude type was part of the photograph, not added in post production.

The front cover lettering is a prototype version of Metsys, used with phototypeset Linotype DIN Mittelschrift, on which it was based.

This show invitation for Japanese designer Koji Katsuno was the first use of Granite’s Semi Stencil weight.

A Be Sea was an occasional magazine published by Sebastian Boyle. He wanted to use the ‘g’ of our typeface Elephant for the front cover of Issue G. We said he could use it if we designed the whole magazine.

AnOther Magazine Issue 15 and AnOther Man Issue 9. Click to enlarge.

Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, AnOther Magazine is known for the unusual type that accompanies its atypical design. Co-founder and former creative director Alex Wiederin (Buero New York) created many of these typefaces, subtle departures from classics like Futura, Bodoni, and Optima, yet drawn entirely from scratch. You can see Wiederin present a few of them himself in this video tour of his 2009 show in Berlin.

The semiannual magazine is now under the design direction of Gareth Hague and David James, jumping over from sister publication AnOther Man. Hague and James have a long record of highly original type design, collected since 1996 under their Alias label. Some of my personal favorites are the dotted Intimo, the low-fi angles of Klute (used as a reference for the infamous London 2012 identity), the soft Sylvia, the tack-sharp Union, the ball terminaled Perla, and Granite, a unique hybrid of slab and Didone.

AnOther Man Issue 1, featuring Ano. Click to enlarge.

AnOther Man Issue 1, featuring Ano. Click to enlarge.

AnOther Man Issue 2, featuring Ano. Click to enlarge.

AnOther Man Issue 4, featuring Ano. Click to enlarge.

Ano release showing at FontShop.

Add to that a variety of uppercase widths and unicase options and Ano is the consummate titling toolkit, offering stacked and textural headline possibilities, bending to the art director’s word image wishes.

AnOther Magazine Issue 15, featuring Ano Serif. Click to enlarge.

Ano Serif followed. I don’t think it’s as successful, but it certainly lends itself well to the avant garde demeanor of the magazine. Its use as a text face is questionable.

AnOther Magazine Issue 18, featuring Aspect.

AnOther Magazine Issue 18, featuring Aspect. Click to enlarge.

AnOther Magazine Issue 19, featuring Aspic. Click to enlarge.

AnOther Magazine Issue 19, featuring Asphalt and Aspic. Click to enlarge.

Aspect, Aspic, Asphalt

AnOther Magazine Issue 17 featuring Ano Serif

AnOther Magazine Issue 18 featuring Aspect for headlines and Ano for text.

Update: Gareth Hague sent a couple more examples of the fonts in use. The first shows Ano Serif looking quite different in upper- and lowercase. The second is one of Hague’s favorite layouts using Aspect. It suggests one of the typeface’s reference points: Berthold Wolpe’s book cover typography from the ’50s.