font_designer: Tobias Frere-Jones

From Tungsten, a typeface that’s disarming instead of pushy, comes a soft-shouldered cousin with an unexpected personality.

Engraved maps use a characteristic form of lettering that’s unmistakable as anything else. We celebrate this style with Surveyor, a monumental family of typefaces designed for print and screen, and for sizes large and...

Engraved maps use a characteristic form of lettering that’s unmistakable as anything else. We celebrate this style with Surveyor, a monumental family of typefaces designed for print and screen, and for sizes large and...

Engraved maps use a characteristic form of lettering that’s unmistakable as anything else. We celebrate this style with Surveyor, a monumental family of typefaces designed for print and screen, and for sizes large and...

Engraved maps use a characteristic form of lettering that’s unmistakable as anything else. We celebrate this style with Surveyor, a monumental family of typefaces designed for print and screen, and for sizes large and...

A distinctive typeface that’s at home everywhere it goes.

A distinctive typeface that’s at home everywhere it goes.

Every designer has admired the no-nonsense lettering of the American vernacular, those letters of paint, plaster, neon, glass and steel that figure so prominently in the urban landscape. From these humble beginnings came Gotham,...

A vigorous hybrid of time-honored forms and contemporary design strategies, Chronicle Display (a suite of headline faces) and Chronicle Text (a suite of text faces) bring strength and utility to the classic serif.

Most type families begin with a roman font of moderate weight, and build outwards toward their peripheral bolds and italics. Nitro starts from the extreme — an aggressively sloped italic of massive weight —...