by Matthew | Jun 27, 2025 | design, illustration
Developing a new font, based on an 1918 sign painter’s card, by William H. Gordon, and trying to work in a similar manner in which that sign painter was required to for their job. With some font development, there is a certain amount of working in shapes rather than...
by Matthew | Mar 12, 2024 | design, process
Iterating one of the latest projects on the drawing board. A font derived from the posters of the early 20th Century – Eccentric Display. Also resurrected an alternate typeface specimen sheet for this post. Follow along here and our socials below for the...
by Matthew | Mar 6, 2024 | design, news, process
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...
by Matthew | Feb 29, 2024 | design, news, process
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...
by Matthew | Feb 23, 2024 | design, news, 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...
