The Catalan Font Scene
Pradell by Andreu Balius, 2000.
Luc Devroye is a Professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a very cool dude too, by the sound of it. Of the many appealing links on his website, which I’ve yet to explore fully, the ones I can’t wait to click on are ‘Abolish conference papers’, ‘No blind refereeing’, ‘Bring on the drugs’ (possibly to help with refereeing blindly) and a poem called Sarkokaka.
But more to the point, he has published a pretty comprehensive directory of type design in Catalunya that he calls ‘The Catalan Font Scene’. He also has a Basque Scene page, and a Spanish Scene one. Prof Devroye adds a note explaining that he has ‘split the Spanish contributions politically (in)correctly into three parts, the Spanish page, a Catalan page and a Basque page’. Clearly, living in Canada makes one sensitive to that kind of stuff.
Anyway, the website offers font directories for many countries and languages, along with bibliograhical suggestions and an open invitation for type designers to join him for a drink at his place in Montreal. Did I say he was a dude?
