Aptly
The concept is “Geo-Soft”: characters are constructed from arcs of circle connected by orthogonal straight lines, with few diagonals and nary a sharp corner. The effect has an engaging tension,…
Shinn
Designed by Nick Shinn. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Humanist sans serif with a calligraphic cut and tall ascenders. Light, Medium and Extra Bold designed by Nick in 1985 for…
Alphaville
All has been said, unless words change their meanings and meanings their words.
Artefact
Rearranging the conventional disposition of thick and thin strokes in the Modern (Didone) class of typeface.
Beaufort
This type is almost a sans serif. It has legibility proportions, and a very large, useful family with specially adapted condensed and extended sub-families. Compared with type set by older…
Bodoni Egyptian Pro
Beneath the dominant signifier of identity, a surprising dimension of Bodoni is revealed—its core architecture, stripped of the famous high contrast cloak. Further subverting typographic norms, a monoline of even…
Boxley
"Nick Shinn’s interpretation of the venerable superellipse or “squircle” genre. The original superellipse typeface, Microgamma/Eurostile, coincided with the emergence of the CRT (cathode ray tube) TV screen, but there is…
Brown Pro
At text size, Brown is a classic grotesque, distinguished by its semi-condensed proportions—especially in the capitals, which harmonize well with the lining figures—and an exceptional clarity in certain high-resolution media,…
Checker
Checker is an all-cap ‘three-D’ font which automatically alternates white letters on black tiles with black letters on white tiles, by means of the Contextual Alternates feature. Checker is an…