Buffet Garni

Black comedy about solitude and dishumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears: he is Alphonse's wife's murderer… Bizarre and unreal.

“Buffet Script” is based on fantastic calligraphy by Alf Becker, arguably the greatest American sign lettering artist of all time.

Buffet Script Open-type Script Font - 2 Mb
"Buffet Script" is based on fantastic calligraphy by Alf Becker, arguably the greatest American sign lettering artist of all time.
The series of nameless alphabets created by Becker and published by Sign of the Times magazine in 1941 have attracted typeface digitizers for years. It's a wonder that several of these alphabets are still undigitized.
It's also understandable that the basis for "Buffet Script" was not attempted in digital form until now. The page presenting the original Becker alphabet shows a jumble of letters running into each other, swashes intertwined. There is a massive amount of work involved in digitizing such lettering and scanning is not an option. If anyone was going to attempt this particular alphabet, it would have to be redrawn stroke by stroke, and curve by curve.

C’est dans le plus strict respect du texte et de l’esthétique de Brahms que sont ici interprétées, au saxophone, ses sonates pour piano et violoncelle et pour clarinette ou alto.Aux côtés de Françoise Buffet, pianiste réputée pour ses interprétations sensibles de compositeurs romantiques, Nicolas Arsenijevic ouvre de nouvelles perspectives pour le répertorie de cet instrument.