Bream
This is the display version of Librum. Librum means “book” in Latin, which I thought was appropriate. Bream is Latin for proclaim—appropriate for display work. The fonts are very close to Librum-Book and Librum-Italic,...
font_designer: David Bergsland
Librum
This is the serif text family for the book design group of font families which David designed in the process of writing “Practical Font Design With FontLab 5”. The letterspacing is set wide for...
Librum E
The major focus of my life and ministry at this point is book design. In the brave new world of 21st century self-publishing a new paradigm has arisen: the indie small shop. One of...
Librum Sans
This is the companion sans family to make the Librum serif families work as well as they do. By companion, I do mean stylistically compatible. But mainly, they have the same vertical metrics. So...
AeroScript
AeroScript is a loose 50s style scribble script.
Axplat
Axplat is the first in a family of grunge, deconstructed, messed-up type faces. It has Euro and almost all the special characters.
Albe Sans
Albe Sans is a font family that began life when I was struck by a full-color back page ad in a 1935 copy of Better Homes & Gardens. I loved the readability and general...
Diaconia Old Style
Diaconia Old Style is a new rendition of my workhorse body copy font that I originally designed to use for the body copy of “Printing in a Digital World.” I became increasingly upset with...
Nuevo Litho
NuevoLitho is my first successful font design. It was designed for use in the heads and subheads of my first book, “Printing in a Digital World” back in 1994. It’s a very loosened play...
Abiquiu
Abiquiu (pronounced A-beh-cue) is the home town of Georgia O’Keefe and as such seems appropriate for a deconstructed “salsa” font. This heavy, black dish of salsa is a free tracing of Bilbo, another of...