Dark Superman
As we wait for James Gunn's version of Superman, I chose to revisit the classic Christopher Reeve from Superman III. But turning his Evil Superman into the classic Dark Superman. I have enjoyed Mr. Gunn's previous superhero films and am hopeful for this upcoming...
Ballpoint Sans Flat
An update to the Ballpoint Font Family with an additional San Serif Flat style of letterform that continues to expand this ever-growing family. We want to ensure the family can support all design uses from display work through typeset with this extensive family. The...
Lessons in Chemistry
Yesterday, I posted about one of AppleTV's great newer series, "Lessons in Chemistry". I had some initial ideas for alternative posters for the show, but went with my first sketch to share in that post. And I totally skipped the great opportunities to include a...
Elizabeth Zott
One of the best news shows from 2023 is "Lessons in Chemistry" on AppleTV. Brie Larson portrays a brilliant chemist and her life as a chemist in a world controlled by men - America in the 1950s. It is a wonderful cast, led by my personal favorite Brie Larson.Here is...
Ballpoint Label
Most every member of GEN-X remembers the label makers from their youth. As the result of this simple memory we began a simple experiment to extend one of our established fonts, Ballpoint Regular, to reflect the sensibilities of those crudely stampled letters. It will...
Mono versus Regular
I was listening to the Design Better Podcast with Jonathan Hoefler yesterday while I worked on this new font and he mentioned some things about uniqueness to some typefaces that made me rethink some of the options for this new font. I had been working through the...
Font Display
Creating new fonts is only half the work. The other part is sharing and showing them off. That is the function that the blog performs for us…as a playground and workshop to test and share things in progress. We have discovered a few code solutions that will allow us...
Lydia alpha
A test of our new display font-in-progress, Lydia. Lydia is a sans serif display font derived from a sign painter's sample sheet from the early 20th Century and we are projecting a release date towards the end of March, 2024…if all goes as planned.Our Social...
Galadriel, redux
Late nights and early mornings are some of the times when I get to simply create. Illustration and portraits are some of my favorites right now and this is the latest piece. A portrait of Cate Blanchett in her iconic role, portraying the royal elf Galadriel, from...
Progress and process
As we continued progress of expanding the existing character set within our new sans serif font, Lydia, we thought we would share an example of some of the process used in the creation of our newest font. As you can see from the above image, the font is based on a...
Lydia
Beginning the work on a sans serif display font entitled Lydia. Lydia is based on the use of a flat chisel brush to create a small library of basic strokes, when combined create the letterforms. The original source provides for a limited upper case character set. The...
Captain B. Willard
Portrait of Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin Willard from Francis Ford Coppola classic film, "Apocalypse Now". This is one of the most celebrated films from my childhood from a crop of directors like Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Altman, et. al. There was a lot to lament...
Loki
A sketch of the wonderfully talented Tom Hiddleston in his role as Loki, the Norse god of Mischief, from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you have not seen the eponymous Disney+ series, go and watch it…the ensemble is fantastic, but nothing can prepare you for the...
Uncial, alpha
The latest development in this new font, isn't necessarily focused on the font but rather the manner in which we will preview the font on the site. It is one thing to present a character sheet while it is another to allow a limited use of the font in the viewport. Let...
Uncial, round 2
Second round of development on the new Uncial Display font and working through expanding the character set. This family is derived from a typgraphy sample from the early 20th Century and although a true Uncial does not have lower case characters, this sample contained...
Uncial
Closing out this week and our Friday afternoon beginning work on a new Uncial font for our expanding product line; Matthewscript for the time being. Finished the first pass of the characters and although it technically should only be capitals, we are working on a...
Ballpoint Sans
Finalizing the first release of the newest typeface in the ever-expanding Ballpoint famly - Ballpoint Sans. A simple and elegant sans serif font suitable for all occassions - from display through to typesetting and everything in between. Keep...
Denys
Portrait of Robert Redford in another iconic role as Denys George Finch Hatton from Sydney Pollack's masterpiece, "Out of Africa", released in 1985. A while back, I read an article that asked why anyone would rewatch this film and I was astounded as to why you would...