Heroic Condensed in FontShop’s Top Type of 2009

My Heroic Condensed font family made its way onto FontShop’s Top Type of 2009 list.

Facebuster in Use at Poems Out Loud

Here’s another sighting of my Facebuster font at Poems Out Loud.

Facebuster is nicely contrasted here with a thin sans serif in the logo and headings.

The design is by Mandy Brown @ A Working Library.

Thanks to Joe Newton @ Veer for the find.

LA Weekly Best of LA Budget Edition uses Facebuster

The latest LA Weekly caught my eye today. They used my font Facebuster on the cover and throughout the “Best of LA : Budget Edition” dated October 2–8, 2009.




Facebuster always looks good large.




Here it even works with neon Photoshop effects...



and with Elvira lookalikes...



It held up alright at smaller settings in the table of contents, on the spine of the magazine, and in the headers and footers of every page.






In keeping with the themes of “Best of LA” and “Budget Edition”, Facebuster will be on sale only at TypeTrust.com when you use the promocode LAWEEKLY at checkout.

Avant Garde Issue #1

I’m working on a NEW portfolio site for my good friend Rob Doran. He brought over three issues of Avant Garde to serve as aesthetic guideposts. Not sure how they’ll figure into the final equation, but I dug the mission statement...

“As most of the
world's ills are
traceable to
old imperatives,
old superstitions,
and old fools,
this magazine
is exuberantly
dedicated to the future.”

Breuer Condensed

I’ve released my latest typeface, Breuer Condensed, over at TypeTrust.





Breuer Condensed is a mechanical sans ideal for captions and headline settings, and may also be suitable for moderate lengths of body copy with its comprehensive offering of Opentype features. The italics are optically adjusted obliques with a selection of augmented lowercase glyphs to provide a warmer read. The overall design ensures a distinct aura of technical precision in a personable tone.

This family of eight fonts is designed to accompany the Breuer Text and Breuer Headline sets released in 2007. Breuer Condensed offers a 76% narrower footprint compared to Breuer Text and is fine-tuned to render typographic color equivalent to each sibling Text weight.

Black Monday promo on YouTube

James Puckett has produced this Video Specimen for our Black Monday typeface.

Black Monday is a distressed version of James's Recovery font based on Eagle Bold, originally designed by Charles Coiner and MF Benton in 1933 for FDR's National Recovery Administration. The video illustrates the Opentype scripting I wrote that automatically randomizes double character pairs with the alternate glyphs in the font... something that lend a more natural look to a distressed type style.