Dispatch
Cyrus Highsmith created Dispatch in his search for an industrial grade slab-serif to serve as text and display. A taut amalgam of letterforms found in typescript, on engineering blueprints and on shipping labels brings...
font_designer: Cyrus Highsmith
Loupot
In 1948, French designer Charles Loupot drew a revolutionary logotype to promote St. Raphael mineral water. Half a century later, the qualities of this logo inspired New York designer and illustrator Laurie Rosenwald to...
Daleys Gothic
Cyrus Highsmith began work on Daley’s Gothic in 1997, experimenting with a steel brush and ink on paper. After sketching a few characters, he headed to the nearest computer and played out the rest...
Eggwhite
Hopelessly trapped in a meeting that showed no sign of ending at any time in the reasonable future, Cyrus Highsmith sought refuge in his ever-present sketchbook. As he attempted to doodle his way to...
Scout
Cyrus Highsmith drew Scout and related logotype for Geraldine Hessler’s redesign of Entertainment Weekly. The large family marks the magazine’s first significant typographic update in a decade. Captions and sidebars are set in Regular...
Antenna
The calm and deliberation of Antenna offers further development to the excitement and mobility that we have come to expect from the hand of Cyrus Highsmith. Beyond the tension of his normal line, Highsmith...
Stainless
One day in his sketchbook Cyrus Highsmith began hacking the serifs off his Dispatch characters, and liked this rough start. Like any good sans, Stainless depends upon much more than amputation. Lower contrast ratios,...
Relay
Relay reaches back to the middle of the last century for inspiration. In England, Edward Johnston and Eric Gill applied humanist proportions and shapes to the geometric sanserif and established a trend within European...
Prensa
Spanish for press, Prensa is a new series from Cyrus Highsmith. He arrived at this family’s character through his process of “wrapping outside curves around the inside, deliberately creating tension between the two,” a...
Occupant Gothic
Occupant Gothic typographically embodies Cyrus Highsmith’s caffeinated vision of the urban environment. The letters are drawn with the fast straight lines that dominate his illustrative sketching style. Form and counterform carefully push and pull…