Relay
Relay reaches back to the middle of the last century for inspiration. In England, Edward Johnston and Eric Gill applied humanist proportions and shapes to the geometric sanserif and established a trend within European...
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Saber
Saber began with a “lowercase,” a series of blackletter, uncial and celtic forms that appeared to Leslie Cabarga in a designer’s dream. From these illusory nocturnal images, a wide awake Cabarga dreamed up extravagant...
Prensa
Spanish for press, Prensa is a new series from Cyrus Highsmith. He arrived at this family’s character through his process of “wrapping outside curves around the inside, deliberately creating tension between the two,” a...
Productus
At the turn of the millennium, Petr van Blokland conceived Productus as the humanist sanserif companion to his prizewinning oldstyle Proforma. Petr has shaped the pair as an ideal vehicle for distinguished corporate design,...
Minah
Jacqueline Sakwa displays a taste for adventurous combinations. She introduces calligraphic variation on conventional forms and combines them with professional finesse. The exceptional clarity of Minah’s broad letterforms and small x-height open new…
Occupant Gothic
Occupant Gothic typographically embodies Cyrus Highsmith’s caffeinated vision of the urban environment. The letters are drawn with the fast straight lines that dominate his illustrative sketching style. Form and counterform carefully push and pull…
Pennsylvania
Living in Pittsburgh, Christian Schwartz registered the industrial grit in the forms of capitals and numbers on license plates in Pennsylvania the rhythms of vertical and horizontal alignment without implications of typewriter or lineprinter....
Amplitude
A successful agate predicts the spread of ink on paper and effectively keeps legibility under less than ideal conditions. Fascinated by the visual aspects of these entirely functional compensations, Christian Schwartz designed Amplitude, an…
Benton Sans
In 1903 faced with the welter of sans offered by ATF, Morris Fuller Benton designed News Gothic, a 20th Century standard. In 1995 Tobias Frere-Jones studied drawings in the Smithsonian and started a redesign....
Grand Central
In 1998, Tobias Frere-Jones designed Grand Central for 212 Associates from late-twenties capitals hand-painted on the walls of Grand Central Station. The design is a distinguished Beaux Arts descendant of the great French Oldstyle...