FF Trixie

Trixie was conceived when we figured out a way to digitise rough, unsmooth shapes and put them in fonts. This happened during the height of the bezier regime: letters were getting smoother all the time, there was a need to roughen the world of typography a bit. Trixie was taken from a typed sample from a typewriter owned by a friend in Berlin, Beatrix GŸnther, or Trixie for short.

The sample was digitised, and two weights were derived from the original scans. Then a lot of tweaking and editing: in those days printers would choke on fonts larger than 40K. The rough outlines consist of many points and it was necessary to take out a fair number of them, but leaving the impression of roughness in tact.

The FontFont Trixie family consists of Trixie-Plain, a quite heavy and detailed typeface, and then FontFont Trixie-Light, as if the ink in the ribbon had gone old. To please people with printers with small memories, Trixie Text was added to the family. It is basically the same design as Trixie-Plain, but with less points (so also less detail) on the outlines. Trixie-Cameo is a reversed version of Trixie-Text, providing interesting typographical possibilities.

Trixie was published in 1991. Since then, many more dirty typewriter typefaces have been produced. Trixie was the first commercial release, and that's that.

FontFont Trixie is a commercially available typeface. Check the LettError homepage for details on distributors.