Angerpoise Lampshade Font

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Tags

#80s, #90s, #Cyberpunk, #Techno

License

Available for Commercial Use

Designer

Raymond Larabie

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Description

I released this typeface on February 14, 1999. At first, I called it
“Anglepoise Lampshade,” after a song by the punk band The Soft Boys.
I didn’t realize Anglepoise was also a lamp brand. Nearly two decades
later, their trademark owner contacted me, pointing out that my font
was confusing their lampshade customers in search results. To avoid
conflict, I renamed it “Angerpoise Lampshade,” which preserved some of
the punk edge of the original name.
The design itself was a quick experiment, a modification of the
letterforms from my Hemi Head typeface. The early version was rough,
and I think that held back its popularity. I never saw it used anywhere
notable.
Stylistically, I once described it with an Art Deco hook, but in truth, I
don’t think it has any Art Deco in it. It has more in common with the
cyberpunk bitmap fonts I saw in 4K demos and late-1980s and early
1990s computer games. Looking back, I should have just called it
postmodern, since it doesn’t sit comfortably in any single category.
I released it with a free commercial-use license, and in April 2024 I
placed it into the public domain. For me, the project is less about the
design itself than the lesson it taught: be careful with font naming,
because trademark conflicts can creep up even decades later.

Supported Languages

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Angerpoise Lampshade Ver 4.002 𑁋 Modified at Apr 4, 2024

License

Public Domain

This font has been released under a no rights reserved Creative Commons Zero license. Please do not ask permission to do anything with these fonts. Whatever you want to do with this font, the answer will be yes. Please read about the CC0 Public Domain license before contacting me. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ To the extent possible under law, Raymond Larabie has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this font. This work is published from Japan.

Released in 2024 under CC0 license. No rights reserved.

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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