Heldane is a contemporary serif family inspired by the renaissance works of Hendrik van den Keere, Claude Garamond, Robert Granjon and Simon de Colines. Rather than emulating a specific font, Heldane amalgamates the best details from these sources into a cohesive whole. The classical typographic foundations of Heldane are refined with rigorous digital drawing. Continue reading

A chronological list of all the awards & accolades Klim has won. Continue reading

European concepts of originality and authorship form our current understanding of typeface design. Typographic history is written as a series of “originals” created by “authors” in a discrete sequence. But can “copies” be equally as important? This lecture was delivered by Kris Sowersby at TypeCon 2018 XX in Portland, Oregon. Continue reading

10,000 Original Copies, Kris Sowersby TypeCon 2018 talk: Friday 3 August, 4:10pm. Continue reading

Exhibition at Objectspace, 29 Jun–4 Aug 2018. Continue reading

Geograph is a contemporary, plain sans serif designed for National Geographic. It comprises 24 styles for use across their broadcast, print and web channels. Geograph was designed under direction from Emmet Smith, Mariano Barreiro and Bethany Powell. We drew inspiration from several international type foundries. Continue reading

The assertion “a typeface is a tool” is a typical justification for making new typefaces. It’s convenient, reassuring and sounds practical. It’s also false. Continue reading

Answers to 10 standard interview questions for The Design Conference Brisbane, 2018. Continue reading

The inspiration, history and development of the Pitch Sans typeface family. Continue reading

An article by Frank Chimero about plainness in design. “Not everyone gets to be special, but everyone can be useful.” Continue reading

An interview with Gwenaël Fradin & Samuel Vermeil for Azimuts 43, December 2015. Continue reading

Typographic analysis of 6 metal logotypes for “Heavy Metal Typography” in Smith Journal, Issue 20, September 2016. Continue reading

The inspiration, history and development of the National 2 typeface family. This post covers the design concepts through to comparisons between National and National 2. Continue reading

An interview with Elizabeth Carey Smith for the Typographics Conference in New York, June 2017 Continue reading

Here is a small thought experiment for makers and sellers of digital files. Continue reading

Kris Sowersby interviewed by TypeThursday. Continue reading

Story Sans is a new font family designed for Trade Me — a screen-first, grotesk typeface aligned to their brand, values and tone of voice. It was designed with Trade Me’s internal design team, and is licensed exclusively for Trade Me. Continue reading

Untitled Sans and Untitled Serif are quotidian typefaces. Untitled Sans is a plain, neogrotesk sans validated by the ideas of Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa’s Super Normal project. When Untitled Sans was nearly finished, I applied the same principles to the creation of Untitled Serif, which is drawn from the old-style genre of types: the post-Caslon, pre-Times workhorses offered by almost every metal type foundry of the time. Untitled Sans and Untitled Serif are related neither by skeleton nor a traditional aesthetic connection, but by concept only. Continue reading

Klim Font End User Licence Agreements. November 2018. Continue reading

A detailed summary of our November 2016 EULA changes. Continue reading