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

Financier is a new typeface family drawn for the redesign of the Financial Times (FT), which was launched in September 2014. It comprises two complementary sets of styles: Financier Display and Financier Text. Continue reading

A response to Rudy VanderLans’s claim of “In-fillism” in the typeface design industry. Continue reading

Maelstrom is a reversed-stress typeface. It’s a “perverse” typeface, to be sure, but that is exactly its charm. It belongs to a genre that seems destined to be perpetually a typographic outsider—never really fashionable yet never fully abandoned. Continue reading

The Domaine typeface family descends directly from the Hardys logotype and typeface, which I designed under direction from Adelaide-based design consultancy Parallax. Continue reading

The impetus for Founders Grotesk originally came from Duncan Forbes of The International Office. We had often discussed the nature and usefulness of the classic grotesks, and the possibility of creating a new one. After trawling through my 1912 Miller & Richard specimen, he became enamoured with their series of Grotesques, particularly the No.7 all-caps showing. Continue reading

Sample pages from the 1896 H.W. Caslon & Co. ‘Epitome’ type specimen. Continue reading

Playing favourites! I’m often asked, “What is your favourite font?”. It’s an impossible question—I like too many typefaces to answer with any brevity. So here is a list—in alphabetical order—of a few typefaces I like, accompanied by specimens and short explanations. Continue reading

Playing favourites! I’m often asked, “What is your favourite font?”. It’s an impossible question—I like too many typefaces to answer with any brevity. So here is a list—in alphabetical order—of a few typefaces I like, accompanied by specimens and short explanations. Continue reading

Playing favourites! I’m often asked, “What is your favourite font?”. It’s an impossible question—I like too many typefaces to answer with any brevity. So here is a list—in alphabetical order—of a few typefaces I like, accompanied by specimens and short explanations. Continue reading

“Typewriter Underwood New Model Silk” from the Barnhart Brothers & Spindler type specimen, 1925 Continue reading

Antiqua-Zierschriften from the Bauer’sche Giesserei specimen book Continue reading

Relief-Zierschrift from the Bauer’sche Giesserei specimen book Continue reading

“New Model Remington Typewriter” from the American Type Founders Co. type specimen, c.1910. Continue reading

“Double Bifur” from the Spécimen Général, Deberny & Peignot, Paris, 1926. Continue reading

“Caractères Maigres” from the Egyptiennes section of the Spécimen Général, Deberny & Peignot, Paris, 1926 Continue reading

“Machine a Écrire” from the Spécimen Général, Deberny & Peignot, Paris, 1926 Continue reading

“Schreibmaschinenschrift” from the Bauer’sche Giesserei specimen book Continue reading

“Neue Schreibschrift” from the 1899 Genzsch & Heyse specimen. Continue reading

A couple of specimens from the 1919 H.W. Caslon specimen. Continue reading