Marvin
The objective of this font was to try and find out how far back in the designer's life this obsession with letters began. The challenge was to draw, from memory…
The objective of this font was to try and find out how far back in the designer's life this obsession with letters began. The challenge was to draw, from memory…
Mascara is one of those organic extremes that usually make people's jaw drop in big silent awe. The way such things are built is usually quite simple, given the right…
Ten years or so after his unique treatment of Garalde design with Trump Mediaeval, Georg Trump took on the transitional genre with Mauritius, which was to be his last typeface.…
The long awaited and much requested revival of Robert Hunter Middleton's very popular classic is finally here. Mayfair Cursive was an instant hit for Middleton in 1932, and it went…
The tradition at the New York Times magazine has been to dedicate the year’s last issue to the people who passed away during the year, especially those whose lives have…
The tradition at the New York Times magazine has been to dedicate the year's last issue to the people who passed away during the year, especially those whose lives have…
Merc is a four-letter word that stops just one y short of Mercy. Merc is also the standard street abbreviation for mercenary, or a soldier for hire. Now that the…
Messenger is a redux of two mid-1970s Markus Low designs: Markus Roman, an upright calligraphic face, and Ingrid, a popular typositor-era script. Through the original film faces were a couple…
One of the earliest fonts published by Canada Type was Coffee Script, Phil Rutter's digitization of Robert Hunter Middleton's 1962 brush script, Wave. In 2010, when the font was revisited…
Helvetica’s 50-year anniversary celebrations in 2007 were overwhelming and contagious. We saw the movie. Twice. We bought the shirts and the buttons. We dug out the homage books and re-read…