Kate Moss, In Writing

Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:42am

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Kate Moss has a fragrance, a clothing line, and a rock star boyfriend.

Now she also has her own font.

The Creative Review reports that graphic designers Peter Saville and Paul Barnes have worked with Ms. Moss to create a letterhead that will extend beyond her TopShop collection into all of her future projects.

Originally, they were going to go with Kate's handwriting, but didn't like the way "Moss" looked, so instead they grabbed vintage issues of Harper's Bazaar from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. The Kate Moss Font is a variation on the type they saw there, which was created by Alexey Brodovitch, an early mentor of Richard Avedon.

We love the font, though we're surprised it's not skinnier.

posted by kate's my type(face)

Apr 18, 2007 2:40PM

oooh, thank you!! now there's one way my print work can look like kate's... she gives such great layout, even as a font

posted by scarlettholly

Apr 18, 2007 3:34PM

mmmm. can't say I love this at all. it's assymetric, the curlicues don't really work. I don't know, I wouldn't use it.

posted by Sandy

Apr 18, 2007 3:54PM

I took a photography class with Brodovitch in the early 60's in Avedon's studios. He was art editor of Vanity Fair for many years.

I think there are a lot of tensions in the font because of the asymmetry and curlicues, and I like it.

He had a wry sense of humor. He also might have been parodying the New Yorker Magazine's font at the time. Bauhaus and others were creating fonts all over the place in the Twenties.

posted by Faran

Apr 18, 2007 3:58PM

And Sandy wins the award for coolest comment.

posted by hallie

Apr 18, 2007 4:06PM

this font is so stupid. not at all what i expected for her. too clean and girly. reminds me of grade school. something i would have doodled in my notebooks. blah.

posted by hallie

Apr 18, 2007 4:07PM

this font is so stupid. not at all what i expected for her. too clean and girly. reminds me of grade school. something i would have doodled in my notebooks. blah.

posted by lori

Apr 18, 2007 4:55PM

another non original idea from moss, can't she think up anything on her own, without the help from previous designs and magazine font? get real!

posted by jillian

Apr 19, 2007 4:30AM

the moss typeface is pretty original if you consider that most typographic design is ispired by or based on earlier forms. i agree its a little too girly for kate. in any case it's a nice design.

posted by fortqueenmean

Apr 19, 2007 10:32AM

I would've thought that the only font she could approve of would be bar codes of cocaine.

posted by Anne

Apr 19, 2007 11:20AM

the faux-serifs ruin it

posted by Agnesnitt

Apr 19, 2007 6:02PM

'Rock Star'?