About Phlegm

In December 1978, as every year since 1970, ITC published its fourth issue of the year of U&Lc (Volume 5.4). In this issue, Herb Lubalin, as artistic director and author, publishes an article he calls “My Favorite Five, Six, Seven and Nine letter words”. In the introduction, co-author Jack Anson Finks explains that Herb appreciates almost more a word for the form it takes when written than the meaning of the word itself. Phelgm was apparently his favourite word. This character is therefore a kind of small homage to Lubalin, who is a great source of inspiration in every respect. Formally, Phlegm uses several codes from American typography of the 1970s (once again). It was started as a synthesis of several american typefaces, an odd mixture that we put aside for a long time. Then a few months/years later we took over the design of this typeface, we decided to remove the contrast almost entirely, to accentuate the serifs and to give it a Benguiat style fibre, like for his best seller ITC Benguiat which was finally the typeface used for U&Lc’s article about Lubalin's favourite words.

Details

Character set: Latin extended

File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Designed by Eliott Grunewald. Development and mastering by OTT.

Supported Languages

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