If you love typefaces that start with documented historical references and are reshaped for today’s world, meet Typetanic Fonts. Each font is deliberately adapted by type designer Greg Shutters for contemporary use, so they work beautifully across branding, digital, and editorial contexts. And they can read as either historical or contemporary depending on how they’re used…by design.
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Just in case you missed it—Typetanic Fonts has a new home! Discover a premium range of historically inspired typefaces for designers and brand alike. Cheers to @_celj_ for the handsome site design, Scott Kellum for the follow-up detailing, and @iansdotdev who built it.
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Meet FLEXOPLEX, a condensed sans serif inspired by early 20th-century narrow gothics and other industrial lettering. Originally developed to meet the spatial constraints of liquor labeling — where government warnings had to remain legible and registration numbers had to meet strict height requirements — Flexoplex balances vintage utility with contemporary precision. Used for display or text, its compact forms and mechanical tone lend vernacular flair to packaging, editorial design, websites, and film posters. Try it on your next project! Link in bio.
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New site, who dis? The wonderful team at @thetypefounders have just launched the beautiful new Typetanic website, on which you can now finally buy my fonts directly for your next project. It also includes my newest type family, “Flexoplex,” a variable-width industrial sans that can go VERY narrow, first used on bottles and cases for @cohassetpunch . Link in bio!
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Exciting news—I’m thrilled to share that Typetanic Fonts is one of twelve foundries (so far!) joining The Type Founders, a new company devoted to creating unique and distinctive type. This means now I’ll be releasing new fonts more than once every five years! (More at thetypefounders.com)
Typetanic fonts in use! Delighted to see Transat used on @namethattunefox . (Thank you to my mom, who is not on Instagram, for the photos).
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Thrilled to be the latest addition to the @typenetwork collection of quality type foundries! Check out the Typetanic foundry page, including an interview with @grshutters . Link in bio!
Happy birthday to the namesake of the LaFarge typeface, Christopher Grant LaFarge — born today in 1862! Along with his business partner George Lewis Heins, LaFarge was the architect behind the first stations of the Interborough Rapid Transit subway. The LaFarge typeface is primarily inspired by station lettering done by LaFarge’s protégé and successor, Squire J. Vickers.
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2021 has been a tough-ish year for me as it has for just about everybody. So I thought as the year comes to a close I should remind myself of my (professional) accomplishments in 2021, and that in spite of it all I managed to get a lot done that I’m immensely proud of. Since you’re a follower of this account, you get to be reminded, too! Apologies for the self-indulgence.
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Happy New Year!
On January 9, the @mta will be officially retiring the “R32” train cars, ending a series of farewell runs organized by the @nytransitmuseum that started last week. This caps over a half a century of service on the subways since they were delivered in 1964. Advertised as “Brightliners” for their then-novel use of stainless steel, and sometimes known colloquially as “ridgies” for their corrugated bodies, if you've spent any time in New York in the past sixty years you've probably encountered one. I only lived in New York for about four years, but I quickly fell in love with these old dinosaurs—stubborn relics of the old city that continued to endure while I watched 57th Street’s stately old storefronts come down to make way for pencil-thin towers filled with hundred-million-dollar condos. Now at the end of their 58-year run, the R32s have become unreliable with age, frequently causing delays or running with broken air conditioning (a feature only having been added during the cars’ 1989-90 overhaul). However, I'll still remember them fondly as a rare link to a bygone era of an ever-changing city.
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Fonts used: LaFarge by Typetanic Fonts, Name Sans by @arrowtype , and Söhne by @klim_type_foundry .
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#OnThisDay in 1920, the Wakefield–241st St. station of the NYC subway opened for the first time. Originally called East 241st St., it was and still is the northernmost station in the system, and is nearly 30 miles away from the southernmost station, Coney Island–Stillwell Ave. Text set in LaFarge by Typetanic Fonts, based on historic NYC subway lettering.
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