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 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 27, 2024 | design, process
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...