“Adelle (as any TypeTogether font) is warm, expressive, with character. Adelle Mono is not indispensable, there is no functional reason for using a monospace font these days that I can think of rather than its personality and aesthetic qualities, and that is something that I like.”
“I made this poster and then showed it to José Scaglione. I love monospace fonts. They take me back to my childhood. Every Friday evening, I would go with my mom to pick up my father from work.”
“This was in the 70s, so while waiting for him at his office, I would sit with a typewriter and play with it. On the other hand I am very attracted to overlying letters in the four primary printing colors (CMYK). Some key examples are the work of Karel Martens, Piet Zwart and Bruno Monguzzi, among others.”
“The day I designed that poster, I had a conversation with a colleague on the role of design today. And we agreed that what we learned had to be rethought, still providing solutions to problems but to completely different problems. So, I thought a monospace font would work well with anagrams (unexpected results). And an anagram is a clear example of what rethinking a problem involves as an exercise.”
Photography by Pavlo Kochan.
