It's no secret that I love fonts; collecting them, using them, and, most of all, designing them! This page showcases a collection of typefaces I have designed as part of both student and freelance projects
Isadore
Isadore is an original typeface based on documents I collected while researching my family tree. The documents included immigration and naturalization records, as well as censuses and city directories from early to mid 20th century New York. I named the typeface Isadore after my great-great grandfather's brother, who was a mysterious figure in my family tree who ended up opening doors to the discovery of more and more information. Below are some examples of my inspiration.
This project took place over the course of two semesters. First, during the spring 2022 semester, I designed a display and text version of the typeface. Then, during the spring 2023 semester, I decided to focus on refining the display version (which became Isadore Regular), as well as designing an italic version and a sans serif version. Below are the regular, italic, and sans serif versions, as well as photos of my type specimen book.
Schrift, Script + Caracteres
After visiting the Katherine Small Gallery and choosing a book to base a systems-based project off of, I designed an experimental typeface and a corresponding type specimen.
The book I chose was Zeichen, Schrift + Ornament by Eugen Nerdinger, a multilingual design manual from 1960. I focused my project on one section of the book that broke typefaces down into pieces, showing the shapes that make up letters.
After photographing these pages, I outlined the shapes and cut them out of acrylic using a laser cutter. Once the shapes were ready, I had my classmates use the various shapes to design new letters. I then scanned the new letters and turned them into a typeface. The last step was creating a type specimen to display my typeface, as well as the scans of the letters my classmates built. See my process images, the completed typeface, and my specimen book below.
Brightmetrics
This is a custom typeface I designed for analytics company, Brightmetrics. The typeface is very loosely based on my own handwriting and a variety of existing handwriting typefaces.
Thompson
Thompson started with a lowercase n on the cover of an old summer camp songbook. Thompson not only takes its shape from the n on the songbook, but it also takes its name from the lake that is home to the camp. Thompson is constructed using only vertical and 45 degree lines (plus some slab serifs).
Modular Dots
Modular Dots is just that, a modular typeface made from a grid pattern of two different sizes of dots. The full font and the type specimen poster can be seen below.
