I’ve created a new updated version of my font Marble Roman. It now contains a complete character set, kerning, and cleaned up characters.
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Inspired by motorcycle culture, the circus, heavy metal, and old tuscan wood type, Hessian will rock you.
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Announcing newly reduced prices for all of my typefaces! Now you can get much more font for your money at MADType. Please see each individual font page for new pricing.
I’ve been working on some historical typefaces recently. My latest release is called Dwiggins Deco and is based upon the book cover W. A. Dwiggins did for the book American Alphabets. Also check out Distill. A new type family inspired by Theo van Doesburg’s DeStijl lettering.
Bandoleer is now available from YouWorkForThem and Myfonts.com! It is my latest stencil font and was inspired by Military and Art Deco sources.
Variable is now available with Central European characters. KGB is using a custom version of Variable that I modified for them in their national advertising campaign. Check it out it all over their site and clever ads!
Also check out the new American Eagle Outfitters children’s brand 77kids. This new brand utilizes use some custom typefaces that I designed. Showings of the work are in the custom type menu to the left.
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Zapatista is derived from a typeface that I designed in 1998 but never released. It is a playful slab serif with a texture that is sometimes subtle and reminiscent of the irregularities of letterpress printing. Like a fine wine, this face has been aged to perfection and is now ready for public consumption. It includes a full character set with accented characters as well as a second full set of alternate uppercase, lowercase, and numbers. OpenType makes it easy to mix and match the two sets of letters to create custom designs. It’s like having 2 fonts in one!
I’d like to announce the release of my latest type family, Quantico. Quantico is an angular typeface family that was inspired by old beer packaging and military lettering. It utilizes 30 degree angles and completely straight lines to form unique character shapes. Equally at home in text or display settings, Quantico contains the standard MADType character set and includes 3 alternate characters as well as several ligatures.
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Pacioli is now available for purchase at Myfonts.com and YouWorkForThem.
My latest release is part revival, part interpretation. It’s a geometric display font based upon Luca Pacioli’s 1509 alphabet of “divine proportion.”
Luca Pacioli (1445-1514 or 1517) was an Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar who lived during the Renaissance. While he was the chairman of mathematics in Milan, he collaborated with and taught mathematics to Leonardo da Vinci.
He published his second important book “De divina proportione,” in 1509. This book discussed topics including mathematical proportion, geometry, and architecture. Along with beautiful three-dimensional renderings by da Vinci, Pacioli included diagrams detailing the geometric construction of the Roman alphabet.
Pacioli was not the first or the last man in his era to describe the building of letters mathematically. Felice Feliciano did this before Pacioli, and Albrecht Dürer further developed these forms years after. According to Pacioli, the thick strokes should be 1/9th of the height, and the thin strokes should have 1/2 the weight of the thick strokes.
I felt that this beautiful alphabet needed to be restored to its full geometric glory and set out to construct an accurate replica using Pacioli’s instructions. Included in the font you’ll find the letters that have the grid overlay and also the letters without the grid. The letters J, W, U, and Z were not included in the book, so I have created my own versions of these characters that fit into Pacioli’s grid. Pacioli shows two different Os in the book, so I have included the second O as well as a second J, Q, and Z as OpenType stylistic alternates. Also included in the font are border patterns and a fleuron taken from the cover of the book.
