What does it mean for a foundry to join The Type Founders? For @marksimonson it meant an entire team ready to help him take his legendary Proxima Nova into languages that he couldn’t on his own. We’re proud to work with Mark, and all of our foundries, and take their visions to all the places they’ve always dreamed about.
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For five decades, @marksimonson has helped shape the way the world reads—with typefaces that feel both timeless and incredibly personal. From the cinematic Coquette to the ubiquitous Proxima Nova, Mark’s work has quietly embedded itself into brands, publications, screens, and stories everywhere. Congratulations on fifty years, Mark. We’re happy you’re a part of The Type Founders family.
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New! Heckle is a brush script typeface for display use. It started as a tiny sketch for a t-shirt design in 2005, based on my memories of script lettering from the ’40s and ’50s.
More info here: /notebook/view/introducing-heckle/
And here: /fonts/view/heckle/
New! Hardcover is an elegant serif typeface intended for display use. It was one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch I did in 1978, inspired by the slick lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers.
More info here: /notebook/view/introducing-hardcover/
And here: /fonts/view/hardcover/
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A few weeks ago, I did a talk for the Type Tuesday group in Minneapolis about the backstory behind Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones typeface and my revival of it. If you'd like to see it, I put it on YouTube: /watch?v=jDAG7txaUxo
The growth and popularity of Proxima Nova in the last twenty years is beyond my wildest, most optimistic expectations when I released it in 2005. I feel incredibly lucky and grateful to everyone who has helped along the way, and especially to all the designers who decided that it was the best font for the job. /notebook/view/proxima-nova-turns-20/
Friends, Romans, Type Nerds! Join me next Wednesday, 4/16 on an epic 4-year voyage from the launching of this lovely lettering sketch by @marksimonson to its realization in wood and digital form as made by @hamiltonwoodtype . This character conversation is presented in conjunction with @goldstein_museum 's exhibition Old Type New Ways, I'll be interviewing Mark about this project and other typographic treasures from his storied career. It's going to be a wild ride!
https://events.tc.umn.edu/event/21170-type-talk-mark-simonson
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