Designing the ampersand always feels like hunting the white whale. No matter how long I sit with it, the perfect one keeps escaping the Glyphs app right before I catch it.
I've drawn more than a hundred of them by now, and this one feels like it's almost there. That unexpected angle at the top right is doing exactly what I wanted it to do. And still, somewhere deep down, I know the next one can be even better. I guess, that's kind of the whole job.
Do you have a letter that's always a challenge to design? A logo mark that's always "almost there"?
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This weekend Madrid is all about music and tradition for the fiestas of San Isidro. Even though today is quite cold, the patron of Madrid marks the start of the summer season.
The Pradera de San Isidro fills up. Chulapos and chulapas walking around like it's the most natural thing in the world. The rosquillas stands are back. There's verbena music coming from at least three different directions and none of them are in sync.
I love this city in May. It's loud, a little chaotic, dressed up for itself. The kind of weekend where you walk out for a coffee and end up somewhere you didn't plan to be three hours later.
Back to drawing letters on Monday. Until then — claveles, and probably a vermut or two.
¡Felices fiestas de San Isidro!
My short vacation is slowly coming to an end, and with that, my posting on social media will get more frequent than it's been in the past ten days.
I will start with one of my latest typeface releases - SLTF CURO - a super heavy sans serif typeface with 5 different corner versions, from sharp to rounded. Perfect for any project you've got lined up in 2026.
#typestar #typedesign #typeface_designer
The Silver Editorial typeface is a collection I always keep close. 18 fonts from thin to black, including true italics + three pixel versions for all your editorial needs.
Available at silverstagtype.com
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I spent hours on this single letter.
Not the whole Brachen alphabet. Not even a weight. Just this one lowercase a — and that little teardrop counter at the top that kept refusing to sit right next to everything else I'd already drawn. Too round and it lost the tension. Too tight and it stopped feeling like the same typeface.
This is the part of type design nobody really sees. The bezier curves, the handles, the obsessive zooming in to check whether a curve is actually smooth or just pretending to be. You can't fake this part. The eye knows.
Seventeen years in and I still get caught on a single glyph for hours at a time. I think that's probably the job.
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A modern sans and serif pairing with over 90 alternates and ligatures — built so the same typeface family can carry an editorial spread, a logotype, a packaging concept, or the kind of city list that already feels like an atmosphere on its own. Copenhagen. Prague. Vienna. Athens. Los Angeles. Each one sitting differently on the page because of what those ligatures do.
A duo that gives you range without making you reach for a second foundry. Available at silverstagtype.com
#TypeSTAr #fontduo #editorialtype
This is what packaging could look like when the typeface does the heavy lifting.
The swash on the z, the alternate r, the curl coming off the final e — none of it is decoration. It's the whole identity. That's the kind of work The Brachen Editorial was built for.
Available exclusively at silverstagtype.com. Nowhere else — and that's intentional.
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The cities look better in The Brachen Editorial. That's just a fact.
Lisbon. Amsterdam. Barcelona. Stockholm. Copenhagen. Brussels. Zurich. Budapest — names that already carry weight, set in a typeface that knows exactly how to hold them. The Roman feels composed, the Italic almost romantic, and both of them do that thing where a single word starts to feel like a whole atmosphere.
The Brachen Editorial — exclusively at silverstagtype.com. Send it to a designer friend who's been waiting for a serif like this.
#TypeSTAr #editorialserif #calligraphictype
The ligatures are where Brachen really shows its hand.
sh, ck, and that ampersand. The kind of letter combinations that type designers obsess over in silence for months — and that designers notice immediately when they're finally right.
This is The Brachen Editorial — exclusively at silverstagtype.com. The italics alone are worth the visit.
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One font. Five corner variants. Infinite combinations.
Watch Curo cycle through its letterforms — same bold weight, completely different character. Sharp to rounded, angular to soft, and everything in between. That's the whole idea.
Available at silverstagtype.com
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Exclusively at silverstagtype.com — and nowhere else.
High contrast. Deeply calligraphic italics. Ligatures that feel drawn rather than constructed. Built for fashion, editorial, weddings, branding — anything that needs to feel like it has a real story behind it.
Regular & Italic. Available now at silverstagtype.com
#TypeSTAr #editorialserif #newfontalert
It's been a long time in the making. Meet The Brachen Editorial.
This one is different. High contrast, deeply calligraphic italics, ligatures that feel almost drawn rather than designed — and that specific kind of presence that makes a single word feel like a whole identity.
Fashion. Coffee. Editorial. It doesn't care what the brief is. It just shows up and owns the room.
Exclusively at silverstagtype.com — nowhere else. That part matters to me. This one isn't going to marketplaces. It lives here, and here only.
Regular & Italic. Available now.
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