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 | Mar 2, 2024 | art, entertainment, illustration
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...
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...
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...
