At the portfolio review this last week, a friend of mine asked me to try and post a little more often regarding typeface design to catalogue my process, so periodically I hope to update with a new pdf of each of the styles I’m currently developing. Overall I’m happy with the flavor, but need to work out the details.

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1. I’m a contributor to a new blog called ‘the syllabus’
We’ve just started getting content together so we have a good launch. It’s focused on graphic design students and young graphic design professionals, their unique concerns and things that will ease the transition between school and work. I’ll be the contributing typography expert (whatever that means) with a weekly blog and more infrequent articles. I’m rather excited about it.

2. I’ve started a new typeface. Granted, it’s still in the incubation stages, but I feel like I have a solid design brief/concept that fills an area that seems to be needing filled within the realm of type design.

3. I’ve also been tossing around another idea for writing, mostly just a fun way for me to journal and incubate ideas. It’ll be called GrayMatters. I’m so clever. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get some funds to publish every year. I think after I incorporate Typecaste at the beginning of the year, I might use it as the basis for my annual report. Who knows?

One little caveat on #2. Austin made me promise that I’d take at least a month off before starting another typeface so there probably won’t be any updates during the next month.

Typhotheque, a foundry based in the Netherlands, just released a pretty ingenious system of display fonts that span the course of type history. It’s called History. Check it out.

I think there’s enough promise for Marua that I’ll be including a couple weights and an italic. These additions are probably a few months away, but plan on it.