The straight-sided form of condensed Geometric slab-serif, Font Bureau Constructa provides a stronger and more geometric form than the customary design. This crisp series is based on Morris Fuller Benton’s lone font Tower, released...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified February 20, 2025
Modula was the first high resolution headline face that Zuzana Licko designed with the Macintosh computer. In 1985, the computer was very crude as far as being able to produce subtle curves, but it...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 19, 2015
Comrade is based on a postcard handlettered in 1923 by Antwerp artist Josef Peeters. Jim Parkinson liked the design and expanded it into a family offering one weight in three widths. Simulating irregularities of...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 9, 2015
‘Fifties style meets Cooper Black on the way to the Mac’ says Rick Valicenti as he describes the process of designing Commerce Fat and Commerce Lean. In 1992, the design team of Greg Thompson...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 12, 2015
A popular television guide commissioned Clicker from Greg Thompson and Font Bureau, a design with roots in machine readable type and the abbreviated characters of video menus. Drawing forms to look right–rather than to...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 6, 2015
Weak ovals replace powerful circular forms in the condensed form of most geometric slab serifs. In Citadel, Tobias Frere-Jones follows a stronger alternative, substituting straight strokes for the curved sides of round characters. Flat...