JAF Herb

Graphic design for Gorillaz’ Cracker Island album and tour

Graphic design for Australian band Delivery, designed by James Devlin

Brand identity for bakery in Austria, designed by ZO Media

Source: gazolinemusique.com

Mila cheese product branding, designed by Stefano Eccher

“Unnützes Wissen für Potter-Fans”, published by Nucleo

Lego “Book of Monsters”

Fear Fun by Father John Misty. Source: youtube.com

Mooks t-shirt design

Source: olijck.nl

Source: erikmarinovich.com

“A bissl wos gäd ollawei”, published by Langenscheidt

“The Saga of Wiz Khalifa” by Wiz Khalifa

Coqfighter restaurant branding, London, designed by Sophie Mo

Bacchus Pub restaurant branding, designed by Armstrong Marketing Solutions

JAF Herb is based on sixteenth-century cursive broken scripts and print­ing types. It features connect­ing letter­forms that are rather tightly spaced. Origin­ally designed by Tim Ahrens in the MA Typeface Design course at the University of Read­ing, it was further refined and exten­ded in 2010. The idea for JAF Herb was to develop a typeface with the prop­er­ties of black­let­ter, without evoking any negat­ive connota­tions. The design retains the complex, humane char­ac­ter of fraktur without appear­ing conser­vat­ive, aggress­ive or intol­er­ant.

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