font_designer: Cyrus Highsmith

Prensa Display

Prensa Display font

Cyrus Highsmith designed Prensa Display to accompany his popular Prensa. The family shares a distinctive tension within the forms, achieved through a process of wrapping outside curves around the inside, a technique inspired by...

Serge

Serge font

Cyrus Highsmith is known for his all-around workhorse families like Antenna, Benton Sans, and Salvo Serif and Salvo Sans, but sometimes he lets loose the reins and raises a show pony. Serge is just...

Quiosco

Quiosco font

Quiosco (Spanish for Kiosk) is a text family designed by Cyrus Highsmith (after Prensa) that follows W.A. Dwiggins in deliberately contrasting character outline with the counter shape. Highsmith addresses the narrow news column by...