font_foundry: ShinnType

Boxley

Boxley font

The original superellipse typefaces coincided with the emergence of the CRT (cathode ray tube) TV screen, but there is more than this visual analogy of high-tech in play, as the pumped up angularity of...

Morphica

Morphica font

This critique of the utilitarian is a perverse and disjunctive mash-up of thematic devices: sans mixed with serif, stroke contrast applied to techno armature, body parts displaced and elided. We are asked to admire...

Eunoia

Eunoia font

Eunoia is an eye-popping, high-contrast, condensed, geometric, sans serif typeface. The family is not, as is usual, built around variance in weight or skew, but alternate letterforms. Eunoia is a system of six fonts...

Goodchild

Goodchild font

Goodchild is a robust Jenson revival with large x-height and short capitals that make it a workhorse for text setting. At display size, its crisp, no-nonsense details provide a contemporary freshness.

Panoptica

Panoptica font

New formula for an alphabet: unicase + tabular

Preface

Preface font

Preface vs. Helvetica/Futura/Gill: a different strategy of text color. Whereas the established classes of sans serif typeface achieve a dynamic balance between stroke and space by combining a diversity of letterform with an evenness...

Brown

Brown font

Brown Gothic is a compact sans serif face, with rounder letterforms than the usual condensed grotesques such as Helvetica, Univers, et al. It has a barely discernible “distressing”, which is slightly less perceptible in...

Worldwide

Worldwide font

Proven in newspapers around the world, Worldwide is a classic news face in the modern idiom, somewhat condensed, especially in the display weights. The Regular font of the Text family is loaded with features.

Artefact

Artefact font

Rearranging the conventional disposition of thick and thin strokes in the Modern (Didone) class of typeface.

Beaufort

Beaufort font

Engaging the issue of scalability, Beaufort® is configured so that serifs render with great sharpness, independent of type size, limited only by device resolution. This scale of effect empowers the typographer with a design...