font_foundry: Mark Simonson

Etna

Etna font

Etna was inspired by the Aetna wood type style of the late nineteenth century. Etna tames this quirky Victorian design into a complete family subtable for modern use, adding a full range of six...

Proxima Sera

Proxima Sera font

Mark Simonson’s Proxima Sera answers the question that designers and typographers have asked for more than fifteen years—what serif typeface should I pair with Proxima Nova? Proxima Sera is a hybrid design, combining characteristics...

Proxima Vara

Proxima Vara font

Proxima Vara is a variable version of the Proxima Nova type family. In a single font file, it contains all the weights and styles of Proxima Nova—plus any style between them along any of...

Dreamboat

Dreamboat font

A typeface nearly 20 years in the making, Dreamboat is Mark Simonson’s take on the bold script style popular during the first few decades of the 20th century and revived later in custom lettering...

Proxima Soft

Proxima Soft font

Proxima Soft is a rounded version of Proxima Nova. With the same forty-eight styles (eight weights in three widths, plus italics), Proxima Soft fits the bill when you want something a bit warmer and...

Parkside

Parkside font

Parkside (2018) is a script typeface inspired by typefaces and lettering of the 1930s and 1940s. Unlike metal typefaces from that era, it takes advantage of modern digital typography, where letters may overlap and...

Acme Gothic

Acme Gothic font

Acme Gothic (2018) is based on the thick and thin gothic lettering style popular in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. There have been typefaces in this genre before, but...

Blakely

Blakely font

Blakely is an all-caps Art Deco design. It is based on the logotype of the Signals mail order gift catalog designed by Mark Simonson in 1993.

Felt Tip Senior

Felt Tip Senior font

Felt Tip Senior is based on the handwriting of the father of Mark Simonson, the designer of Felt Tip Roman.

Anonymous

Anonymous font