The Minneapolis Star Tribune, affectionately known as the Strib, has been reborn as the Minnesota Star Tribune—with a new mission and some Commercial Type fonts.
Tim gave a lecture titled The Past Inside the Future: Commercial Classics at Five on July 9 at the San Francisco Public Library, presented by Letterform Archive and Type West. The talk was recorded and is now available on YouTube.
Commercial Type teamed up with Food and c-ll-ct-v-ly to redesign a magazine known for continually reinventing itself. It landed on newsstands in June.
Control, a new sans serif designed by Christian Schwartz and Miguel Reyes, has no “correct” version. It can express itself as a tastefully legible mid-century grotesk, or it can morph into a tightly spaced headline face straight out of the 1970s.
When the Helsingin Sanomat design team commissioned two narrower styles of their headline typeface in 2023, we produced two new families—Sanomat Condensed and Sanomat X Condensed—along with a variable font to give users access to the widths in between.
A new sans serif from Greg Gazdowicz revisits a bygone era of print production: phototypesetting in the 1970s, when type as a whole lost some of its sharpness.
Under the creative direction of Shiva Nallaperumal of November, Graphik has branched out into Bangla, Devanagari, and Tamil.
A new variable font designed by Paul Barnes and Greg Gazdowicz fuses the highly contrasted Modern and the rugged Ionic along the axes of contrast and weight, opening up a range of possibilities in the space between them.
We collaborated with Pentagram on the redesign of the oldest continuously published magazine in the US.