Late 90’s Flashback

March 8, 2005 at 11:54 am / Foundries

The late 90’s were a turbulent time in the graphic design world. As design tools became cheaper (and widely pirated) and hosting services allowed any jerk with a few bucks to set up a website, the explosion of creativity was nearly (?) washed away by the almost simultaneous flood of mediocrity that followed. Here’s a couple foundries that were part of the explosion:

It’s kind of exciting to stumble upon websites frozen in time, exactly as you remember them, like that fly in the amber on the end of that guy’s cane in Jurassic Park. To my delight, Germán Olaya has preserved the Typo5 font site in all its 1999 grunged-out glory. I remember using Fango way too much. In hindsight, Oil is probably the most interesting and useful of the lot.

Although Sacred Nipple’s site seems to have gone offline about a year ago, you can still download their free fonts from TypeIndex.org. I think Albino deserves to be put to good use.