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.

My First “Serious” Serif Text Typeface

I’m working on my first serious serif face. Here’s a peek at the Regular, Italic and Medium styles...

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.

I’m apparently a Creative Character.

I’ve received a lot of great feedback from the MyFonts.com interview that went out yesterday. Just wanted to say thank you to everyone that sent me a note. I’m really happy to hear that you all got something out of it.

The interview process made me realize how much I haven’t written in the past few years. I forgot how anxious I get with words, and how good it sometimes feels to get them out. It’s a funny feeling to write about yourself and then read it days later.

So, to keep the buzz and momentum, I’ve decided to start this little blog. It’s just a Blogger feed that I customized and publish to my own server. I’ll ramble about inane stuff, for sure, but I’ll post snapshots of new type in progress and other inspirational tidbits.