Wessex
Initially conceived by Matthew Butterick as a Bulmer revival, Wessex took on characteristics of Baskerville and Caledonia as design proceeded. In 1938, W.A. Dwiggins had taken the hard necessities of the non-kerning line-caster italic...
font_designer: Matthew Butterick
Hermes FB
Schriftguss and Woellmer called it Hermes; Berthold called it Block. Heinz Hoffmann’s 1908 design inspired FB Hermes, which evokes the German grotesks that were workhorses of factory printing 100 years ago. Blunt corners suggest...
Herald Gothic
The incisive appearance of the economical Herald Gothic headline is given by the bevelled corners to the characters, a practice common in the eighteen-seventies for news heads. This font family is based upon a...
Alix FB
With a vintage Selectric typewriter as his muse, Matthew Butterick set out to make a monospaced font that preserved the liveliness and comfortable readability of a proportional design. FB Alix was inspired by IBM’s...