Ballpoint Display

by Matthew | Jan 10, 2024 | art, design, illustration, news, process

New year, new font; an ornamental roman display font that is based on a sign painter's alphabet from the early 20th Century.

New year, new font part II: this is a work in progress of a new display font based on an old font from the early 20th Century. It will be a limited set which may extend into some numerals to round out the set.

The Falcon

As technology moves forward, I continue to reach back to my traditional trainings from the now defunct University of the Arts (nee, Philadelphia College of Art); that's another story. At PCA, we were trained in all elements of the creative arts; from typography to...

Polaroid 180

I have been a film guy, and more specifically a Polaroid-film guy, since I was a teenager. One of my first cameras was a Polaroid film camera – and once I saw the ability to take instant shots, I was hooked. I even worked myself up to be an official Polaroid artist,...

Simplí

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Craic

Craic is based on some of our other elegant fonts, our love of the “arts & crafts” style, and the wonder of “what if?”. We focused on making a simple and elegant stroke-based set of characters/glyphs and expanding that to the full Latin characters with a few...

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