Commerce
‘Fifties style meets Cooper Black on the way to the Mac’ says Rick Valicenti as he describes the process of designing Commerce Fat and Commerce Lean. In 1992, the design team of Greg Thompson...
font_category: Sans Serif
Cafeteria
The irregularities normally found in script can enliven sanserif letterforms. In Cafeteria, Tobias Frere-Jones took special care to balance activity with legibility on the paper napkin that served as his sketchpad, drawing a freeform...
Bodega Sans
Released in 1990, Bodega Sans adopts numerous ideas from the high period of Art Deco, providing designs that are as fresh as they are nostalgic. This geometric series, with its later seriffed companion, Bodega...
Berlin Sans
Berlin Sans is based on a brilliant alphabet from the late twenties, originally released by Bauer with the name Negro, the very first sans that Lucian Bernhard ever designed. Assisted by Matthew Butterick, David...
Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a geometrical sans-serif typeface with an almost uniform stroke width, originally designed as a Multiple Master font which modulates from Stencil to Roman. Since Multiple Master technology has become almost obsolete, the...
Jorge
(pronounced hor-hay) Some years ago my wife and I had our evening meal in a restaurant on what is called the northshore of Massachusetts. Of course, if you check a globe or map you’ll...
Bisco Condensed
Bisco Condensed is a small capital design inspired by hand lettered memorial wall art from the Harlem section of New York City. As a memorial, this design is dedicated to a type design colleague...
Culpepper
I’ve always admired the work of Rudolph Koch. Culpepper is what I think Neuland would have looked like if it had been developed with lowercase, small caps and a range of weights. I started...
Gothic No.13
A dark, condensed, nineteenth century sanserif made popular by Linotype, the capitals deriving from Barnhart Brothers and Spindler, the lowercase from Farmer.