Eggwhite
Hopelessly trapped in a meeting that showed no sign of ending at any time in the reasonable future, Cyrus Highsmith sought refuge in his ever-present sketchbook. As he attempted to doodle his way to...
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Garamond FB
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...
Moderno FB
In 1995, David Berlow cut FB Moderno for Esquire Gentleman and Reforma from a TrueType pole of Giza. In 1996 he cut new styles with Richard Lipton for El Norte. In 1997 Roger Black...
Scout
Cyrus Highsmith drew Scout and related logotype for Geraldine Hessler’s redesign of Entertainment Weekly. The large family marks the magazine’s first significant typographic update in a decade. Captions and sidebars are set in Regular...
Antenna
The calm and deliberation of Antenna offers further development to the excitement and mobility that we have come to expect from the hand of Cyrus Highsmith. Beyond the tension of his normal line, Highsmith...
Bureau Grot
Bureau Grot is now accepted as the essence of tooth and character in an English nineteenth-century sans. The current family was first developed by David Berlow in 1989 from original specimens of the grotesques...
Zingha
Seen through the eyes of type designer Xavier Dupré, Zingha “balances French rhythm with American style.” Traditional inscriptions inspire design of the roman capitals, but Dupré allowed himself more freedom in the spirited lowercase...
Whitman
Drawing inspiration from Dwiggins and Gill, book designer Kent Lew has treated classical design traits with a spartan finish to create award-winning Whitman, honored in 2002 by TDC. Even-tempered in text, stately and striking...
Stainless
One day in his sketchbook Cyrus Highsmith began hacking the serifs off his Dispatch characters, and liked this rough start. Like any good sans, Stainless depends upon much more than amputation. Lower contrast ratios,...
Truth FB
In 1994 Apple® Computer, Inc. asked David Berlow for “a future gothic” to replace Chicago®, their system font. Now called Charcoal®, the design was released with Mac® OS 8 in 1996. Through operating system...