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In the spring 2008 issue of Eye magazine, there was a feature titled 'Lust and Likeability' in which designers and typographers comment on a list of typefaces, chosen by designer Deborah Littlejohn.

I found out some rather interesting facts about what inspires the designing of a font, how some evolve from existing fonts, and how some appear from nowhere.

Bello, a typeface designed by Underware is 

a "friendly & rich" brush script, designed

 to mimic the work of a sign painter.

The Shire Types, designed by Jeremy Tankard, is a 

typeface consisting of "unusual structure(s) - inspired

by nineteenth century slab serif & grotesque types."

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Sansa, by Fred Smeijers

"bears no direct relationship

to any historical model."

I chose these 3 examples, because they show 3 ways in which a font can be created; 

1. Modifying a historical typeface.

2. Creating something new.

3. And most interestingly, mimic-ing a craft.