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Jim Ford was practicing drawing with a new brush pen when the inspiration for Alfie came to him. He had filled several pages in a notebook with letters and, at one point, realized that there might be a typeface among them. As it turned out, there were four. The process, however, wasn't choosing one design and modifying it. The makings of all the designs were on the pages. It was just a matter of culling out the right collection of characters to build the foundations for the four flavors of Alfie.
Because they share the same family roots, each design in the Alfie family can be paired and intermixed. Ford admits that there's a hint of Emil Klumpp's 1950s Murray Hill typeface in the Alfie family. Just enough to give the design a 50s vibe. (Some fashions never go out of style.)