font_foundry: Signal

Ballinger

Ballinger font

Ballinger began life as a single-weight proprietary typeface called baasic, designed for Dublin-based design office aad. baasic was intended as a plain, hardworking grotesque: a simple tool for clear communication. We’ve developed it into...

Ballinger Condensed Series

Ballinger Condensed Series font

Our Ballinger family continues to grow with the addition of 16 new narrow styles. Their shared DNA is visible in the generous counters and x-height, forthright forms, and air of cheery efficiency. And like...

Pressio Stencil

Pressio Stencil font

Pressio Stencil brings Pressio’s square counters and superelliptical curves to the stencil genre. The result is Mid-century Modern with a touch of packing crate. With four widths and five weights, it’s far more versatile...

Pressio

Pressio font

Pressio is a study in doing things backwards. We began with the weight that’s usually drawn last: the ultra-compressed black. This was squashed down vertically in increments to make the compressed, condensed, and regular...

Mortise

Mortise font

To mortise is “to join or fasten securely.” Created by an aspiring furniture-maker and an ageing typographer, Mortise is a solidly constructed new slab serif, and marks Signal’s first collaboration with outside designers. A...

Ballinger Mono

Ballinger Mono font

The addition of a monospaced version returns the Ballinger family to (some of) its roots: a 70s-era typewriter face called Candia, which Josef Müller-Brockmann designed for Olivetti. Ballinger Mono is designed on the same...

Tenon

Tenon font

When we trimmed the serifs off our new slab serif family Mortise, we found a plain, efficient sans that marches through the uncanny valley between grotesk and geometric, with almost circular bowls that lend...

Sinter

Sinter font

Sinter is the sharp-elbowed sister of our best-selling Center. To make it, we reversed the usual order of things by starting with a rounded typeface and adding corners. The result is crisper and more...

Vibro

Vibro font

Roll over, Lance Wyman, and tell Bridget Riley the news. Designed by an old hippy for maximum dazzle, Vibro is an ice cream headache of a typeface which exploits the principles of chromatic vibration...

Center

Center font

The future is squarish. Georg Trump knew it in 1930 when he designed City. Hermann Zapf knew it in 1952 when he designed Melior. Aldo Novarese knew it in 1962 when he designed Eurostile....