font_designer: David Bergsland

Sturdy

Sturdy font

Sturdy is designed to be as black as possible yet still legible. As an OpenType Pro font it has my normal complement of around 500 characters. New to this font I have added what...

Brinar

Brinar font

I’ve been working on a usable sans serif for body copy since the mid-1990s (though I certainly did not know it at the time). This one works well. It started life back in the...

Fiscal

Fiscal font

This is a squared sans serif font family developed out of a taller Bank Gothic model plus a true lower case with many OpenType features and over 600 characters: Caps, lower case, small caps,...

Ardone

Ardone font

Ardone is a well-modulated humanist serif font family with Garalde roots. A distant ancestor is Minister (a German font designed by Fahrenwaldt in 1929) through my first font, Diaconia Old Style. This first style,...

Arinar

Arinar font

Arinar is a well modulated, rounded, humanist sans serif font family based on Brinar. A distant ancestor the basic letterforms is Minister (a Dutch bible font of the 19th century) through my first font,...

Acadami

Acadami font

Acadami is an experiment toward what will hopefully be my masterwork (probably named Hackberry). It’s also the font used as I get used to FontLab 5. The serifs are stronger and sharper. It’s modified...

Cutlass

Cutlass font

Cutlass was just for fun. A year ago or so [2009, maybe], someone on typophile showed a scan of the word “Ciruelo”. I liked it. Those were the only letters I had and no...

Chunkie

Chunkie font

Chunkie is a simple serif experiment going for minimal width and maximum height. I made it into my display version of OpenType Pro, but mainly it was a vehicle for me to try out...

Avenue

Avenue font

Avenue is an eleven font family with five synthesist serif faces, five humanist sans serif faces, and one old style face. It is designed as an extrememly versatile body copy set. There are many...

Alexandrya

Alexandrya font

Alexandrya is a subtly modulated block serif font family with a humanist sensibility and all of my personal style for font design. A distant ancestor of the basic letterforms is Minister (a German font...