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Type foundry in New York and London.

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Nice use of Darby Serif and Darby Sans!
irinak.bsky.social Irina Koryagina @irinak.bsky.social · 16d
Brand architecture and brand identity systems for @barrons.com financial advisor conference series, 2021
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Big thanks to Barron’s creative director Alex Dousie and art director Sandy Ng for the commission, and to Barron’s in-house team for implementation
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A grid of rectangular banners in 7 colors
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Read more about Delusse in the newsletter by @lither.land, with showings designed by Vance Wellenstein:
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Or have a look at the detailed PDF specimen:
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Or download free trial fonts:
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The complete Delusse family, with the name of each style set in its respective typeface.
October 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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New release by Sandrine Nugue: Delusse, a spiky-soft response to Vendôme, one of the most iconic French typefaces of the twentieth century.

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JE NE SAIS QUOI in Delusse Regular A block of text in Delusse Regular and Regular Italic A block of text in Delusse Black "Prêt-à-Porter" in Delusse Regular Italic
October 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Spines for No Guts, No Glory: Celebrating Five Years of The David Prize, 2024
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Thank you to The David Prize, Erika Augustine, and Gina Fuchs 💛💛
Fonts by @commercialtype.bsky.social, printed and bound by Allied Printing
Image of a scan of 3 books, with 2 yellow spines and 1 fore-edge visible A tall cropped stack of books with yellow spines and red and blue cover wrap visible on the fore-edges
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Happy 10th anniversary to @letterformarchive.org! Julien @boogypaper.bsky.social and I are proud to have contributed to this along with many colleagues and friends.
letterformarchive.org Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · Oct 14
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.

#LetterformArchive #100Tens
October 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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James Mosely's series of lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered every year to students in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. These were recorded in 2020-21, and are now available for everyone to watch:

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James Mosley's History of Letterforms - YouTube
James Mosley’s lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication over many years. They represent ...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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New work: a fresh new nameplate for @torontolifemag.bsky.social, drawn by Julien Priez @boogypaper.bsky.social for design director Colleen Nicholson.

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Toronto Life cover from August 2025. REVENGE OF THE COTTAGERS is the main headline. Toronto Life cover from June 2025. Best New Restaurants 2025 is the main headline.
September 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I'm laying out Gun Magic Techno Pop in Focal and it's such a blast to work with. I wish phototypesetting had still been in use when I began my career, I would have eaten that shit up. Focal designed by @greggazdowicz.bsky.social, available from @commercialtype.bsky.social
The inside cover and front page of Gun Magic Techno Pop. The inside cover reads "It's 1999 and time is speeding up," with the 'p' in arc being looped endlessly, getting skinnier and skinnier, as if the word were being squeezed into a high-pitch electronic note. The other page is a lengthy book introduction. A later spread from Gun Magic Techno Pop. On the left-hand page is an overview of how characters work in the game, with a diagram of the character sheet itself. On the right-hand page is a character sheet for the Mundane Mage. The character description reads "Make the trains run on time."
August 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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This was a fun project to help out on. Miguel Reyes redrew the logotype, and Control is used throughout the identity, including an early version of Control Compressed.
its-nice-that.bsky.social It's Nice That @its-nice-that.bsky.social · Jul 17
Richard Turley gives Air’s identity space to breathe through simplicity and parody > buff.ly/2L3T0or
July 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Jim Parkinson was a kind and gentle soul, in addition to being unbelievably talented. He will be missed.
June 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Please take this survey and help the Fontstand Cooperative figure out how font licensing needs have evolved.
fontstand.com Fontstand @fontstand.com · Jun 11
We’re are launching an independent industry-wide survey for font users. We want to hear about your experiences: What works? What’s confusing or frustrating? What would you change? Your answers will help us decide how licensing works within the Fontstand Cooperative.

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Fontstand font user survey.
June 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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See Royal Gothic here:
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Read Paul Barnes's essay on the family here:
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Text in Royal Gothic Bold Royal Gothic in Steven Shanks & Co Type Foundry specimen from the 1870s
May 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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NEW RELEASE! Royal Gothic by @paul-barnes.bsky.social, with help from Luke Charsley and Tim Ripper, comes out of the Vault with a full range of seven weights. Starting from a single bold weight, and folding in influences from the US and Germany, it preserves the quirks of early squarish sans serifs.
Text in Royal Gothic Black Text in Royal Gothic Light Full range of 14 styles in Royal Gothic family, in order of weight. Interior spread from "Happy Gas", a monograph on artist Sarah Lucas, designed by Fraser Muggeridge.
May 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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New work: Greg Gazdowicz and Christian Schwartz drew a new nameplate for Swedish news outlet Aftonbladet, directed by Anna Thurfjell.

Read our case study here:
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More about the thinking here:
annathurfjell.com/work/brand-r...
AFTONBLADET nameplate in yellow with a black shadow on a red background Two variations on the SPORTBLADET logotype in yellow with a black shadow on a pink background
April 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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New work for New York Magazine's annual Yesteryear issue.
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We recreated the lettering on the 1975 poster for A Chorus Line for design director Tom Alberty and his team.
April 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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We have some case studies from the Commercial Type Design Studio here, with more to come:

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March 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Though Commercial Studio didn't survive 2020, we regrouped and have rebuilt our corporate identity studio within Commercial Type, under the direction of Dino Sanchez. This has quietly been going on alongside our other work for the past couple of years, and now we're taking a moment to talk about it.
creativeboom.com Creative Boom @creativeboom.com · Mar 24
How a type foundry started a brand studio (and why it makes perfect sense) 👀
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March 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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New in our news section, Caren @lither.land interviewed Shiva Nallaperumal about Delegate, how he came to type design, and the studio November that he runs jointly with Juhi Vishani: commercialtype.com/news/shiva_n...
Pullquote from an interview with Shiva Nallaperumal: "I've always oscillated between type and graphic design. I love the rigor and craft of the former and the conceptual side of the latter." Typeset in Delegate Bold
March 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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New in the Vault: Caslon Ionic Rounded, adapted from Caslon Ionic by @greggazdowicz.bsky.social

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Caslon Ionic Rounded (Bold) There are certain visual motifs we keep coming back to. Stencils are great. We never get tired of swashes. And we love soft letterforms. (Caslon Ionic Rounded Light) Softness adds warmth and charm. (Caslon Ionic Rounded Extrabold) Greg Gazdowicz has spent the last few years exploring various aspects of softness in type: in contrast with sharpness, in Terza; as an artefact of production processes, in Focal; and now the transformative properties of softness when applied to a historical genre — the Ionic — known for its solidity. (Caslon Ionic Rounded Medium Italic)
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Lovely use of Orleans ↓
jackflag.bsky.social Jack Smyth @jackflag.bsky.social · Feb 11
Cover for Tenterhooks by Claire-Lise Kieffer.
Out now, published by Banshee Press.

Type by @commercialtype.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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New in the Vault: Jargon, a condensed headline typeface with a giant x-height by Thomas Bouillet.

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Jargon in Jargon Black Jargon is a gently flared headline typeface by Thomas Bouillet, with newsy proportions and an elegant finish. in Jargon Thin The uprights have some Dutch influence—not surprising, since Jargon started as a small part of Thomas’s degree project at the Type]Media program in the Hague—while the italics reference Roger Excoffon & François Ganeau’s stylish sloped romans for Vendôme. in Jargon Bold and Bold Italic Its extreme x-height is well-suited to Posters and Book Covers. in Jargon Ultra
February 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Type Today also recently published an excellent interview with @letterror.bsky.social by Ilya Ruderman:

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Erik van Blokland: “Drawing is thinking”
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February 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Great interview with @boogypaper.bsky.social by Adelina Shaidullina for Type Today: type.today/en/journal/j...
Julien Priez: “Legibility is a spectrum”
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February 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Congratulations to Lisa Huang and the whole team behind @wordsoftype.com on today's beta launch! This is already a great resource and is going to keep getting better.

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January 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Double Acts in Pop is now shipping! Its Nice That has a writeup today:
www.itsnicethat.com/articles/com...

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January 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM