If you're in the U.S. and want to see my typeface Bungee in action, look no further than today's Google Doodle at google.com, celebrating Walter Cronkite!
You can read more about it in the Google Doodles archive.
This week, Adobe Typekit announced the new Typekit Marketplace. I am very happy to be a part of it, along with my partners at Type Network and a number of other excellent type foundries. I am very excited to share my work with a whole new set of visual designers, and to see a large, influential company like Adobe placing such a high value on type.
Since the announcement of OpenType Variable Fonts, I have been excited to try out the new format. For my first experiment, I decided to keep it simple and use a font with only one interpolatable outline: a beveled square.
I also built a little demo that animates through the font variations using CSS animations. Thanks to Myles Maxfield’s efforts, this already works in the latest Webkit nightly build.
Forma DJR is a revival of Nebiolo’s classic Italian sans that brings a measure of warmth to the cold, rational neo-grotesque genre. Drawn with Roger Black for his 2013 redesign of Hong Kong Tatler, our interpretation recaptures the spirit of late-60s/early-70s typography with letterspacing that is tight but not touching, and rounded corners and tapering stems that echo the imperfections of ink and paper. Meet Forma DJR, the interesting boring sans.
