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Erik van Blokland & Paul van der Laan: Raw TypeCooker

Typecooker is obviously the most beloved event at TYPO Berlin. If you came to the TYPO Stage in time, you will barely find any place left, even on the floor. Get a recipe defining parameters of your type like contrast, width and weight, draw a sketch and be ready to get thorough comments from typecooks Erik van Blokland and Paul van der Laan.

Erik van Blokland & Paul van der Laan, photo © Gerhard Kassner

Erik van Blokland, Paul van der LaanRaw TypeCooker

Tipp-Ex, scissors and markers are applied unsparingly — a few cuts and your spacing is saved and ink traps added. “Don’t have any respect to your sketches as we don’t have to them”, said Erik cutting off overly long descenders. Is your condensed condensed enough? And how about blackness of your black? Take your risk, go to typecooker.com and start drawing! (And don’t be confused if the typecooks say that “your “d” upside down is a better “p” than your “p”)

Erik van Blokland

Type Designer, Programmer (The Hague)

Erik van Blokland is Co-Developer of robofab and UFO. He works as Type Designer and programmer and he teaches at Type & Media at the KABK in The Hague.

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Paul van der Laan

Type Designer, Typographer (The Hague)

Paul van der Laan lives and works in The Hague and is founding partner of Bold Monday typefoundry. He is also staff member of the KABK Type & Media masters course in type design. He has designed a diverse collection of typefaces including Oskar, Flex, Feisar, and a variety of custom fonts for worldwide clients such as Audi, USA Today, General Electric, NBCUniversal and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

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Text — Aleksandra Samulenkova