Memoir Italic Drawing Process
A typical drawing process scene when I am creating my fonts looks like this. When I have in mind a…
Working in the corner of the eye
I once read in a book by famous dutch typographer Fred Smeijers that he believes in something that he calls…
The Centaur Films
From a typeface history research point of view surely one of the most exciting projects I have ever taken part…
Derive the Italics
A natural desire once you created a new typeface is to make its accompanying italic version. In the history of…
A Singular Character
Date : 4. March 2017
This a more experimental character I did for a Ferragamo lettering research. It is named Singular. More than alluding to…
Why is the ‘a’ so hard?
… and at the same time such a pleasure to design, too?, I guess I’d have to add here. I…
The Ugly Little ‘g’
A quite curious little character in my Advanced Text webfont (working title Threeadvanced) is the ‘g’. It has those strange…
Interim Points
Here some intermediate results of my work on the Vision typeface numbers. Vision has aligned numbers which have wide and…
The Trouble with the Own Name
One of the most difficult tasks for a type designer is the design of his own logotype. It is kind of a…