FF You Can Read Me
FF You Can Read Me is one of four fonts in the “FF FUSE Classics” package. This is a small collection of some of the most interesting designs from the first years of the FUSE project, including FF Moonbase Alpha, FF Scratched Out, FF Stealth and FF You Can Read Me. For this FontFont release, the designers were asked to revisit their original fonts and complete the designs.
FF You Can Read Me is Phil Baines’s 1995 version of “F Can You (read me)?,” which he designed in 1991 for FUSE 1 (theme: Invention). According to Baines, “at college in 1983, I had drawn an alphabet based on earlier research by Brian Coe into how much – or how little – of each letter is needed for legibility. FF Can You Read Me was based on this alphabet but took the idea away from the essentials and played a little more with the resultant shapes.”