BBB Herthey Futural
Typothèque Bye Bye Binary · Clara Sambot et Laure Giletti
A fork of Paul Bernhard's Hershey Futural, reworking Allen Vincent Hershey's 1967 single-stroke military typeface with inclusive ligatures for a contemporary architectural school identity.
About
Originally drawn by Allen Vincent Hershey in 1967 for the US Naval Weapons Laboratory, the Hershey Futural's skeleton construction — curves broken into connected straight lines — made it suited to early CRT displays and later CNC machines. Clara Sambot and Laure Giletti's fork adapts the two-weight family for the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Saint-Étienne, adding inclusive glyphs that combine masculine and feminine suffixes through agglomerated ligatures, cut characters and a floating median point. Released under a free licence, it follows a lineage of open-source stewardship by Luuse, Techninja, Windell Oskay and Paul Bernhard.
Classification
Derived from Allen Vincent Hershey's 1967 single-stroke vector alphabet, originally designed for CRT display via coordinate sequences. The skeleton construction — curves decomposed into connected straight lines — places it firmly outside conventional upright categories; 'display' best captures its contemporary CNC and screen usage.