font_designer: Jean Evans

Spare and lighthearted, Rats was inspired by the personal hand of the illustrator Scott Nash. Its small body height and tall ascenders support an oldstyle spirit drawn from early second-century Roman cursive scripts. Rats...

The typeface Elli was named to honor Eleanor Garvey, Houghton Library’s famed and much-loved Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard University. For Elli’s 1990 retirement, Bill Bentinck-Smith commissioned Jean Evans to design...

Dizzy pays homage to that great legend of bebop, John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie. Jean Evans, long-term family and personal friend of Gillespie, was inspired to design this font after seeing a sample of his...