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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 19, 2015
The design of Cheltenham, believed to be the first original type contracted to Linotype, began in Boston in 1900. Ingalls Kimball sketched the basic weight while architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue completed drawings in 1901....