Jill Pichotta captures the driving rhythms of hip hop music in the gesticulating forms of this dancing pair of typefaces, HipHop Demi and its syncopated twin, HipHop Inline. The repeated hesitations in the music...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 2015
Gangly originated from the wall of a department store parking garage in San Diego, California in the early 1990s. Developed into a full-grown typeface by the unconventional mind of Joe Polevy, the lanky letterforms...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 12, 2015
Our familiar Caslon Bold headletters were invented around the turn of the twentieth century in the United States and were only loosely based on William Caslon’s romans. The best of the Caslon Bolds originated...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 11, 2015
We have all seen proofs where faulty platemaking or light inking has lost all hairlines in a delicate roman. Raphael Boguslav observed the effect and understood it as a sophisticated form of stencil design....
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
Condé Nast commissioned the FB version of this popular oldstyle for Traveler magazine. Douglas Crawford McMurtrie, type historian, and type designer Robert Hunter Middleton collaborated at Ludlow in 1929 to design a light oldstyle...