OutWest
Emigre · Edward Fella · 1993
Edward Fella's 1993 display face for Emigre, built across four fill-based variants that reflect his idiosyncratic hand-drawn sensibility and avant-garde approach to letterform construction.
About
Released in 1993, OutWest is characteristic of Edward Fella's work as a designer-artist who operated at the margins of legibility and convention. The four variants – Light, Dark, Half Empty and Half Full – suggest a layering or fill system rather than a conventional weight axis. The result is a typeface rooted in vernacular Americana and the experimental culture of early 1990s design.
Classification
A highly idiosyncratic display face by artist and designer Edward Fella, with hand-drawn qualities and deliberately irregular letterforms that resist conventional typographic classification. The four variants – Light, Dark, Half Empty and Half Full – suggest layering or fill-based construction rather than traditional weight progression.