Black Dice and Pod Blotz at Lodge Room concert flyer
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jun 20th, 2022. Artwork published in
circa February 2022
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Black Line in contempory use: Rob Carmichael of SEEN employed the dizzying multiline face for a –
Flyer design/collage/WTF for what ought to be an incredible show! Our all time heroes/pals Black Dice and the visionary Suzy Poling playing at Lodge Room in May. Thanks to Upend for reaching out. Officially one off the bucket list to make a show flier for the Dice crew ❤️
Wolf Magin’s early-1970s design nicely complements the circular highlights on the photographic elements. It is supported by tightly spaced Colt. The expanded all-caps Egyptian was drawn by Mattox Shuler in 2015.
3 Comments on “Black Dice and Pod Blotz at Lodge Room concert flyer”
Because I really appreciate this type of font and the work that goes into it, I would like to suggest an alternative to interested people today.
Dekal is indeed the most mature and expansive digital interpretation of Wolf Magin’s Black Line. It’s not a direct revival, exhibiting fewer lines and some redesigned glyphs. For a faithful digitization, see Linea Nera NF.
Just last month, Jonathan Hill released a new version of Dekal that adds lowercase characters. The simplified line pattern comes in handy for the use in smaller (not small) sizes. I find the default spacing oddly loose. Such 1970s multiline faces ask for a tight fit. And The Northern Block seems to agree: in all sample images, the spacing was reduced significantly.
In fact, tighter spacing looks better. But it ruins the readability. It’s good that spacing can be influenced and adjusted more easily in the post-lead era.
You can see this clearly if you take the “Linea Nera NF” and write the word “Company”: the letters M and P are difficult to recognize and almost impossible to read.
In such cases, improvements must be made using kerning.