Keywords: Digital Typefaces / Font Foundry / Soundfonts

NlGHTfonts, a sub-brand of Day For Night, came into existence as part of a greater mission; to create and distribute new typefaces that read well with concern for the limitations of screen-based viewing. In 1994, it published the following release:

“Standards for browser-reading have become a turn-off for most computer users, principally due to the lack of conformity which anti-aliased letterforms have, when set against incompatible pixel-grid systems onscreen. Equally important is the elegance of even the most common fonts – take the awkwardness of Arial or Helvetica for example – designed for print reading, but definitely not friendly to the eye, onscreen...

“Another artefact from the computer revolution has been the ease with which ‘classic’ type designs become diluted through piracy and where good design becomes subverted by a weak and disingenuous pseudonym. This unfortunate trend has resulted in a confused marketplace, now deluged with duplication and apathy. Despite the protective nature of digital and intellectual property rights, we know full well that any printed image can be re-scanned onto a desktop and re-converted in a matter of days.

“It is the mission of NIGHTfonts to take a definitive stance towards original, functional typography, despite these house invaders. “We are forever on the honor system, here.”