Luc(as) de Groot explained

Luc(as) de Groot
Birth Date:21 June 1963
Birth Place:Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands
Known For:Thesis
Calibri
Consolas
Occupation:Type designer
Spouse:Sonja Knecht[1]
Nationality:Dutch

Lucas de Groot (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /ˈlykɑs dəˈɣroːt/; born in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands), known professionally as Luc(as) de Groot, is a Dutch type designer.[2] He is the head of the type foundry Fontfabrik, also trading as LucasFonts.[3]

De Groot is particularly known for the very large typeface family Thesis (a font superfamily with sans-serif, serif and monospaced designs), Calibri, the longtime default font with Microsoft Office, and Consolas.[4] [5] [6] De Groot is considered an expert on using interpolative font design and stylistic alternates to develop large families with a wide range of features and languages supported.[7] [8]

Biography

De Groot was born in the Netherlands and studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.[9] He adopted the name Luc(as) on his business card after graduating as a reference to people calling him by both "Luc" and "Lucas".[10] After having worked for a few years at Amsterdam-based design agency BRS Premsela Vonk (since 2009 called Edenspiekermann), De Groot moved to Berlin to work at MetaDesign under Erik Spiekermann. Some of his early work included alternative versions of Frutiger, which much of his work is influenced by.[11] While working at MetaDesign he began working on the Thesis family in his spare time, a project he described as being enabled by a lack of personal connections outside work.[12] Thesis was initially published by Spiekermann's FontShop library before he established an independent company.

De Groot's work includes commercially released fonts and also custom families for particular clients: Corpid (previously AgroSans) for the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture; SunSans for Sun Microsystems; SpiegelSans and Taz for, respectively, the German magazines Der Spiegel and die tageszeitung; and FolhaSerif for the Brazilian newspaper Folha.[13] Some of these such as Taz have since become publicly available.[14]

De Groot teaches at the Design Faculty of the Fachhochschule Potsdam or University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, outside Berlin.[15] [16]

Fonts

Major fonts by de Groot include:

contains the sans-serif TheSans, TheSans Mono and serif designs TheMix and later TheAntiqua[17] [18]

As an amusement, de Groot also developed a number of parodic, spiky or distorted reworkings of Thesis, including Nebulae and JesusLovesYouAll.[20]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Knecht. Sonja. European Cyrillics. TXET. 31 August 2017.
  2. Book: Jason. Tselentis. Allan. Haley. Richard. Poulin. Typography, Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography. 1 February 2012. Rockport Publishers. 978-1-61058-205-6 . 91.
  3. Book: Macmillan, Neil . An A-Z of Type Designers . 2006 . Yale University Press . 97 . 0300111517 . 17 September 2011.
  4. Book: Misjel Vossen. Goed voor druk . 2008. Academia Press. 978-90-382-1225-8. 57.
  5. Book: Jürgen Gulbins. Christine Kahrmann. Mut zur Typographie: Ein Kurs für Desktop-Publishing. 8 March 2013. Springer-Verlag. 978-3-642-57294-4. 97.
  6. Garfield, Simon. Just My Type: A book about fonts. p. 329. Profile Books (UK), Gotham Books (US), 2010, pp.328-331. .
  7. Web site: Hardwig. Florian. Jazz In Town poster. Fonts In Use. 12 May 2016. TheSans is a well-equipped font, featuring Ǖ, Ǘ, Ǚ and Ǜ, Vietnamese small-caps, six alternative ampersands and many more cool extras..
  8. Web site: Biľak. Peter. Family planning, or how type families work. Typotheque. 12 May 2016.
  9. Web site: Luc(as) de Groot. Mediamatic. en. 2018-05-17.
  10. Web site: The Typographic Times [Interview with Lucas de Groot]]. Planet Typography. September 2008. 2015-10-09. My full name is Lucas Adrianus Wilhelmus de Groot, my calling name is Luc (officially printed on my birth announcement!). When I was young, some people called me Luc, others Lucas. I wasn’t aware of the difference until I had to design my business card in school, then I came with this solution: Luc(as). .
  11. Book: Heidrun. Osterer. Philipp. Stamm. Adrian. Frutiger. Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces: The Complete Works. 8 May 2014. Birkhäuser. 978-3-03821-260-7. 256, 429.
  12. Book: Jan Middendorp. Dutch Type. 2004. 010 Publishers. 978-90-6450-460-0. 219–227.
  13. Web site: Knecht. Sonja. Taz Wide & Extended. Slanted. 15 May 2016.
  14. Web site: Luecke. Karsten. Taz update 3 review. Typographica. 11 July 2015.
  15. Web site: Herr Prof. Lucas de Groot. Fachhochschule Potsdam. 13 May 2016.
  16. Web site: Vogt. Constanze. Beyrow. Mathias. Der ABC-Macher. Sabine. Fachhochschule Potsdam. 15 May 2016.
  17. Web site: Lo Celso . Alejandro . Serial Type Families . https://web.archive.org/web/20141108190923/http://www.designshares.com/share/images/pdf/type_serialtypography.pdf . dead . 2014-11-08 . University of Reading (thesis) .
  18. Web site: Berry. John. The Human Side of Sans-serif. Creative Pro. 17 May 2018.
  19. Web site: Coles. Stephen. Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners. https://web.archive.org/web/20120228035307/http://fontfeed.com/archives/top-ten-typefaces-used-by-book-design-winners/. dead. 28 February 2012. FontFeed. 2 July 2015.
  20. Web site: FontFabrik Type. FontFabrik. 7 July 2015.

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