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...
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...
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...
by Matthew | Feb 22, 2024 | design, news, process
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...
by Matthew | Feb 20, 2024 | design, news, process
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...
