Raymond Larabie
Airmole
“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca
Raymond Larabie
“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca
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I released Airmole on September 26, 2000. The name came from the
kind of psychedelic juxtapositions I liked in band names such as Led
Zeppelin or Soft Machine. Since moles live underground, calling one
“Airmole” felt memorable and a little absurd.
The design was based on a sample I found in a Speedball lettering guide
from the early 20th century. Rather than tracing the letters directly, I
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built them up with Bézier curves, keeping the spirit of the original but
simplifying the shapes so they worked better as a digital typeface. That
approach marked the beginning of my habit of doing looser revivals
rather than strict ones. The lettering in the Speedball books was fairly
clean, and a few other designers later produced more faithful revivals.
Mine is pared down, which I think makes it more practical as a typeface.
Airmole is a heavy counterless display design with a casual art deco feel.
Because it has no counters, it was actually quicker to produce than
many other fonts I’d worked on. I released it with a free commercial-use
license, and over the years I’ve seen it crop up now and then, usually in
retro-themed contexts, though nothing especially memorable comes to
mind.
In April 2024, I placed Airmole in the public domain. Looking back, I see
it as part of my series of “not too strict” revivals, a style of
reinterpretation that has remained a recurring thread in my work.
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