Posts Tagged ‘type design’
Designing a Custom Typeface | Part 2
(Missed the first part of the custom typeface series? Check here!) In the months since my last blog, I’ve made a lot of progress on designRoom’s new typeface. First, we chose a concrete direction. After a more in-depth look at the way we use fonts, we decided we wanted a more personalized replacement for the…
Read MoredesignRoom’s New Typeface | Part 1
designRoom is getting a custom typeface! As part of our efforts to refine our brand typography, I will be creating a typeface from scratch exclusively for use by designRoom. When designing anything, it’s hard to know where to start sometimes. With fonts that can be a particular problem. So, before I start the design process,…
Read MoreA Type Design Niche, By the Letter
While it’s still early in my career, I’ve been fortunate to have developed a type design niche. I have a knack for letters. All About All the Letters My expertise, and my passion, is in type design — making new fonts and expanding old ones. It can be tedious. Kerning, for example, is a step…
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