Mark Simonson

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: https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/introducing-heckle/

And here: https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/heckle/

Fifty years ago this month is when my interest in type design began... https://marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-day-i-discovered-type-design/

I've been playing around with DrawBot and wondering if there is a way to get its built-in text editor to stop automatically inserting matching parentheses, etc. I find myself fighting with it constantly and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.

My Bookmania (Light Italic) and Etna (Bold Italic and Condensed) showed up for a couple of seconds in tonight's episode of Pluribus ... (I hope this isn't a spoiler...)

Sure, why not.

Hardcover is an elegant new 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: https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/introducing-hardcover/

And here: https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/hardcover/

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 the talk, I put it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAG7txaUxo

My entire font library is now available on Typographer.
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Last week I did a talk for Type Tuesday in Minneapolis where I did a live demo of early font editors on a real Macintosh Plus. I've uploaded a video recording of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqbnocp7j_A

I wrote a piece on my blog about something that's been on my mind lately: Keeping the digital world in its place and reconnecting with the analog world... https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/1979