font_designer: David Bergsland

Contenu

Contenu font

Because Contenu is designed for text use, it is spaced for body copy in the 9-12 point range. That is far too much spacing for heads, subheads, and the like. So I made the...

Buddy

Buddy font

Buddy is the new companion sans for Contenu, the book font family designed for my book on font design design. Originally, I called it Compagnon, but that seemed to pompous. Then I called it...

Bushing

Bushing font

Bushing is a quick serif experiment going for open light display type. For years I have always stopped and really liked what I saw with fonts like the original Cushing from the turn of...

Buddy Slender

Buddy Slender font

Buddy Slender is the narrower version of the companion sans for Contenu, the book font family designed for a book on book family design called Practical Font Design. It’s a loose, free, easy to...

Poniard

Poniard font

Cutlass was just for fun. Poniard is the working version. Sleek, slender, sharp, to the point! A bit of decorative fun. This is the first font used in teaching Fontographer in my new Practical...

CushingTwo

CushingTwo font

CushingTwo is the 6-font family designed for Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers: Regular, Oblique, Demi, DemiOblique, Bold, and BoldOblique. The two Demi variants will be listed separately in InDesign and the Creative...

AggressIan

AggressIan font

AggressIan is the release of the first font I ever drew. It was done by hand with triangle and parallel rule back in the mid-1980s. I originally called it Aggressor, but I never liked...

Contenu EBook

Contenu EBook font

Because ebooks will not normally accept .otf fonts, and they don’t support Opentype features, this font family was designed to be used for the ebook conversions of print books. It uses old style figures....