{"id":77257,"date":"2024-12-01T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=77257"},"modified":"2024-12-01T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:11:14","slug":"stop-the-name-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/01\/stop-the-name-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop! The name of love."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the Italian type foundry <a href=\"http:\/\/r41.it\">Reber R41<\/a> released R41 Stop, a revival I designed for them on commission. R41 Stop, of course, is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/fontsinuse.com\/typefaces\/6943\/stop\">Stop<\/a>, the distinctive design released in 1971 by <a href=\"https:\/\/typenetwork.com\/articles\/the-story-of-nebiolo\">Nebiolo<\/a>, designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aldo_Novarese\">Aldo Novarese<\/a> with help from others in the Nebiolo studio. This version that I designed for Reber R41 is specifically based on the version of Stop that they manufactured as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dry_transfer\">dry transfer<\/a> type. The design is fundamentally the same, but a careful digitization of the original glyphs reproduced for dry transfer reveals certain subtle differences in curvature. I wish I could discover more about the R41\u2019s process for preparing artwork for reproduction \u2014 whether they prepared new stencils like Letraset, whether they photographed existing artwork, or some other method. Alas, the information seems lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stop-1-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stop-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stop-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stop-1-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stop-1-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stop-1-1200x600.png 1200w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Stop-1.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In reviving a typeface that I love as much as I love Stop, I didn\u2019t want to simple reproduce what had existed. I wanted to do that part of it well, but it was also very important to me to add more to the concept. I wanted to take Stop further, so I could feel like I truly earned some design credit that could sit alongside Novarese\u2019s. I added additional symbols, support for Cyrillic and Greek, and a number of alternative character forms based on the ways that people have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/customstop\/\">hacked Stop\u2019s design<\/a> over the years. In making a version Stop that was specifically derived from R41\u2019s dry transfer product, I tried very hard to honor that material legacy, and design the new glyphs whenever possible to look like they could have been made out of existing shapes from the basic sheet by a decent designer with a scalpel and a steady hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see R41 Stop on the <a href=\"https:\/\/bijoutype.com\/projects\">Bijou Type<\/a> site, purchase a license from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.r41.it\/r41stop\">R41<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/store.typenetwork.com\/foundry\/r41\/series\/the-aldo-novarese-collection?family=r41-stop\">Type Network<\/a>, or activate it with <a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.adobe.com\/fonts\/r41-stop\">Adobe Fonts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the Italian type foundry Reber R41 released R41 Stop, a revival I designed for them on commission. R41 Stop, of course, is based on Stop, the distinctive design released in 1971 by Nebiolo, designed by Aldo Novarese with help from others in the Nebiolo studio. This version that I designed for Reber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/01\/stop-the-name-of-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop! The name of love.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77262,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257\/revisions\/77262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}