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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
Cyrus Highsmith designed Salvo Sans and Salvo Serif (originally called Boomer Sans and Boomer Serif) as one series to tie the design of AARP The Magazine to AARP The Bulletin and AARP Segunda Juventud....
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 4, 2015
Steadfast and no-nonsense, Heron is always ready to go to work. It began with a Joe Heroun commission for Men’s Health inspired by industrial, machine-made letters. Unlike other type with mechanical influences, Heron is...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
Steadfast and no-nonsense, Heron is always ready to go to work. It began with a Joe Heroun commission for Men’s Health inspired by industrial, machine-made letters. Unlike other type with mechanical influences, Heron is...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 4, 2015
Cyrus Highsmith designed Prensa Display to accompany his popular Prensa. The family shares a distinctive tension within the forms, achieved through a process of wrapping outside curves around the inside, a technique inspired by...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Originally designed in 1996 by Matthew Carter and hand-tuned for the screen by Tom Rickner. The Georgia typeface family received a major update in 2010 by Monotype, The Font Bureau and Matthew Carter. Georgia...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The Verdana typeface family was designed specifically to address the challenges of on-screen display. Verdana was originally designed by world-renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and tuned for screen display by the leading TrueType hinting…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 10, 2015
Richard Lipton is a master of the calligraphic script, transforming the elegance of pen-on-paper into beautiful, functional fonts. For Savanna Script, he channeled Friedrich Neugebauer and Martin Wilke, modern calligraphers whose square-edged pen…
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 15, 2015
Cyrus Highsmith is known for his all-around workhorse families like Antenna, Benton Sans, and Salvo Serif and Salvo Sans, but sometimes he lets loose the reins and raises a show pony. Serge is just...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 17, 2015
Quiosco (Spanish for Kiosk) is a text family designed by Cyrus Highsmith (after Prensa) that follows W.A. Dwiggins in deliberately contrasting character outline with the counter shape. Highsmith addresses the narrow news column by...