by Matthew | Mar 9, 2024 | design, news, process
Eccentric Display is a decorative display font based on typography from the Parisian posters of the early 20th Century. It will be a limited character set dedicated to display uses with a solid upper case set and an inline lower case alternative. Follow along here and...
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 26, 2024 | code, design, news, process
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...
by Matthew | Feb 26, 2024 | design, news, process
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. The quick...
