Hardcover is an elegant new serif typeface for display use. It's one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch in 1978, inspired by the lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers. More info here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...

A great talk packed with type nerdery and ending on a heartwarming note. Skin & Bones was fairly successful for VGC fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31..., but earned Douglas F. Jones only $240 over a decade. Mark’s 2024 restoration will bring Jones double that amount within its first two years.

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A few weeks ago, I did a talk for the Type Tuesday group in Minneapolis about the backstory behind Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones typeface and my revival of it. If you'd like to see it, I put it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAG...

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We’re celebrating 10 years of Letterform Archive with #100Tens. This segment features contributions from:⁠
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Thomas Ingmire⁠
Michael Schwab⁠
Sean Adams⁠
Mark SImonson @marksimonson.bsky.social
Alejandro Chavetta
Clement Mok
Marian Bantjes

alongside items from the Archive’s collection by:⁠

Mark Simonson Studio at 25: It didn't start out as a digital type foundry... www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

The growth & popularity of Proxima Nova in the last 20 years is beyond my wildest dreams when I released it in 2005. I feel incredibly lucky & grateful to all who has helped along the way, especially to the designers who decided it was the best font for the job. www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

I'm happy to see that WB Animation is still using the lettering I did for them in 2008 (the part below the WB shield). Seen on the trailer for their latest feature, "The Day the Earth Blew Up," which I hear is good.

ALERT:

The font on the Minnesota Senate Building has changed from Proxima Nova SEMIBOLD to Proxima Nova EXTRABOLD.

END ALERT.

The story of my latest typeface, Synergy, goes back to a couple of sketches in 1981. Read more here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

I've been rewatching season 1 of Severance and spotted my Acme Gothic on a band poster. It's only there for a split second, but it caught my eye, of course. The name is obscured, but thanks to a little research, I discovered that it's "ABRUMPO" (latin for "separated") fronting for "Fissureman."

(Re)introducing Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...