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Proxima Super Nova
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Published: September 3, 2024 14:31
When I decided to sell the rights to my library of fonts to The Type Founders in 2021, one of the big reasons for me was the ever-growing burden of maintaining and developing that library. As a one-person studio, there was only so much I could do. Proxima…
Type Design Like It’s 1987
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Published: June 18, 2024 20:49
Last week I did a talk for Type Tuesday in Minneapolis where I did a live demo of early font editors on a real Macintosh Plus. I've uploaded a video recording of it on YouTube, or you can watch it here.
Three New Heavyweights
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Published: June 10, 2024 20:36
I took a break from my usual practice of working on larger families to create a trio of heavyweight display typefaces: Cheesecake, Madcap, and Gertie. They come from different historical periods—and different periods in my life. Cheesecake is the most…
Down the Rabbit Hole with Apple's Ancient Font Editor 2.0
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Published: June 7, 2024 18:33
In 1984, I bought one of the original 128K Macs. A big draw for me was how it could display multiple fonts—proportional or fixed-width—anywhere on its screen. I desperately wanted to make my own fonts for it. This was before modern…
(Re)introducing Skin & Bones
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Published: April 22, 2024 17:26
Skin & Bones is an unusual font release for me. It's not only a revival, it's a designer-authorized revival. It was originally designed by Douglas F. Jones and released as a 2\" film font in 1972 by VGC (Visual Graphics Corporation, now defunct). I got to…
Interview: Douglas F. Jones, Designer of Skin & Bones
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Published: April 4, 2024 18:50
Jones with his creation, Skin & Bones, in Industrial Art Methods magazine, 1972. In 2013, I posted an item here about a magazine article I saw as a teenager back in 1972, which helped spark my interest in type design. It was about some recent typefaces…