https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/ Located in Minneapolis Minnesota, the Process Type Foundry is a type design studio specializing in the design of original typefaces for retail and custom use. en-US https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/10/anchor-in-use-charm/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/10/anchor-in-use-charm/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT In the realm of the command line, where black and white and monospaced fonts reign, the software company Charm is breathing new life into the terminal. Their mission is to make the command line glamorous and if their website is any testament to what they can bring to your CLI, they are succeeding. Christian Rocha is the designer behind Charm’s website and uses Anchor as the primary display face. I Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/07/anchor-in-use-forever-friends/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/07/anchor-in-use-forever-friends/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT Forever Friends is a volunteer-run organization in Australia that rescues, rehabilitates and rehomes animals in need. Susu Studio completely re-imagined their identity and choose Anchor as the organization’s primary typeface. Photography by Sebastian Avila. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/07/indivisible-in-use-zero-egg/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/07/indivisible-in-use-zero-egg/ Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT Seattle-based brand firm Partly Sunny was hired by the Israeli company Zero Egg to help launch their product in the United States. They chose Indivisible for sub-heads and body text, with OH no Type Co’s Obviously Wide taking lead on display. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/04/new-release-sculpin/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2021/04/new-release-sculpin/ Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT Introducing Sculpin — a stew of American sign painting, Swiss Modernism, and the stone chisel rendered to life in Bézier curves. The family is five weights, with matching italics, and a weight-axis variable font. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/08/a-brief-and-random-guide-to-the-twin-cities/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/08/a-brief-and-random-guide-to-the-twin-cities/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT Typecon 2019 is coming up and it’s hosted in our glorious home state of Minnesota. Find here a totally random collection of items that may be of use when you’re in town. Pronunciation guide Minnesota has plenty of place names that aren’t intuitive to pronounce, even for native English speakers. So if you’re wondering, here’s how you pronounce the following: - Nicollet: NICK – o – let - Loring: LOR News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/07/the-basics-of-variable-fonts/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/07/the-basics-of-variable-fonts/ Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT First, what are they? For many years, type designers have used interpolation to help them make fonts. Imagine creating a new font and only two weights are completely drawn. By using interpolation, a type designer can create a full range of weights between the lightest and heaviest designs without having to draw each intermediate weight by hand. From Thin and Black, for example, it’s possible creat News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/05/locator-in-use-first-responder-stamp/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/05/locator-in-use-first-responder-stamp/ Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT Illustrator Brian Stauffer worked with Studio A art director and designer Antonio Alcalá and designer Ricky Altizer to create this stamp, using our typeface Locator, for the US Postal Service released in 2018. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/01/elena-in-use-women-power/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2019/01/elena-in-use-women-power/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT Project: Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard Typeface used: Elena for interior text Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2018/10/whats-new/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2018/10/whats-new/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT Let’s get the obvious out of the way — we redesigned our website! Besides a visual refresh, we made a number of changes to make buying fonts from us easier and more convenient. So, what changed? Currency If you’d prefer to pay in another currency besides USD, you can! Forget currency exchange fees from your credit card company and pay in Euro, GBP, Australian or Canadian Dollars as well. OpenType- News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2018/09/scandia-stencil-in-use-pasted/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2018/09/scandia-stencil-in-use-pasted/ Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT Pasted is a collage app, from James Mercer of The Shins and Zeke Howard and Ben Fogarty of The Brigade, a design studio in Portland. It’s an inventive tool that lets you mask photos, add filters, and layer graphics to make artwork. After creating their logo with Scandia Stencil, they expanded the concept into a full alphabet pack, so you can paste the two-tone letters into your collage and they’ll Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/07/its-pique-week/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/07/its-pique-week/ Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT A couple of Pique things turned up at once so here we are. Check out Nicole Dotin’s typeface in use for an important NYC Health campaign and then watch two videos about its design. While we’re at it, go ahead and take 10% off any license of Pique offered on the site until end-of-day Friday, August 4th (that’s the ‘week’ in Pique Week). Just use the coupon code ‘piqueweek’ at checkout. In Use: Bare Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/04/yep-stop-clicking/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/04/yep-stop-clicking/ Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT © Norman Posselt (Monotype) More than a week ago, I was in Berlin leading a workshop on bash shell scripting at the TYPO Labs 2017 conference (get a run down of my workshop on the TYPO blog). Shell scripting definitely sounds mysterious and impenetrable if you’ve never indulged. However, it’s a relatively straightforward way (or it can be) of telling your computer what you’d like it to do in a tex News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/03/designing-moniker/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/03/designing-moniker/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT Taking inspiration from the rounded sans serifs of the last 50 years, Moniker captures the informal tone of the genre while building on the typographic possibilities left under-explored. Its open terminations, slightly condensed lowercase and almost classically proportioned uppercase bring a sensible workhorse mentality to an often display-centric genre. Continuous running text, charts, graphs and More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/03/new-release-moniker/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2017/03/new-release-moniker/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT We’re excited to announce our latest typeface, Moniker by Eric Olson. Moniker is a rounded sans serif that captures the informal tone of the genre while maintaining a sensible workhorse mentality. The family is made up of five weights with lively italics, and with features like small caps and multiple numeral styles, the fonts can take on the small (tables and text) and big (headlines and logos). News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/12/more-elena-more-control/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/12/more-elena-more-control/ Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT Elena, designed by Nicole Dotin, has doubled in size with two new weights. Adding to the Regular and Bold, a Light and Medium bring a twist of variability to this modern serif typeface. The new styles form a trio of text weights – rather than follow a traditional linear weight model – and serve as lighter and heavier gradations of the Regular. These new fonts are designed to offer finer control ov News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/12/designing-elena/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/12/designing-elena/ Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT The design of a new serif typeface for extended reading is an exercise in subtlety and restraint. The type designer traveling this path is faced with a limited and abstract palette with which to build unique character – stem widths, counter shapes, proportions, terminations and so on. Elena is a manipulation of these subtleties in a direct and unaffected way, creating a modern serif typeface that More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/09/scandia-in-use-tengbom/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/09/scandia-in-use-tengbom/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT Tengbom, a Scandinavian architectural firm, has a new visual identity and it’s full of Scandia. Developed by Oscar Liedgren Studio, the branding takes full advantage of our latest typeface and also features a new style — Scandia Light Stencil. Scandia was released with just one stencil font, but Liedgren thought a second, lighter weight would carry them even further. He came to us after creating T Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/09/you-bought-some-webfonts-now-what/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/09/you-bought-some-webfonts-now-what/ Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT Getting webfonts up and running on a website can be challenging or just plain tedious. To take some of the sting out of it, we’ve written a quick start guide to help you implement the webfonts right away. Take it Step-by-Step The new guide, included in all our webfont packages, has step-by step instructions as well as a pre-written stylesheet for self-hosting webfonts. Just upload the included web News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/04/colfax-in-use-hewn/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2016/04/colfax-in-use-hewn/ Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT FÖDA, an Austin-based design studio, has renamed and rebranded their neighbor, Hewn, a wood shop, fabricator, and mill. The hefty Colfax Black logo sets the tone – spanning 8' wide on the hopper above! — and Colfax webfonts extend the identity online. Check out their brand guidelines, patterned business cards, and striking sliding door below. Photographs by Nick Simonite. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/12/capucine-in-use-freshly-delivered/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/12/capucine-in-use-freshly-delivered/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT HelloFresh is a delivery service that saves you time on shopping and meal planning – you pick recipes and they send a box full of pre-measured ingredients that you cook at home. It’s one of many such services popping up left and right. In this growing market, where websites replace store aisles, each brand’s take on photography, colors, and type will be key to luring in cooks. The approach of Hell Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/10/our-entire-library-has-been-updated/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/10/our-entire-library-has-been-updated/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT What began as a retooling of our production process ended up as a full-scale rebuild of every font in our library. The new, updated fonts are now available to all customers as free upgrades. The changes are almost entirely technical in nature – in other words, the design of the typefaces remains the same – but the improvements are beneficial to everyone, particularly those who licensed webfonts or News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/08/the-alphabet-project/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/08/the-alphabet-project/ Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT Today’s Sentinel & Enterprise features a bright rendition of the letter W by our own Nicole Dotin. For The Alphabet project, artist Anna Schuleit Haber has been taking over the front page of Fitchburg, Masachusetts’ daily newspaper, in collaboration with designers from around the world. Learn more about the Alphabet project. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/06/try-them-all-rent-them-all/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/06/try-them-all-rent-them-all/ Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT After a month on Fontstand we’ve made all of our typefaces available. If you haven’t seen Fontstand, it’s a free Mac application that allows you try fonts at no cost and rent them on a monthly basis. We offered five select families when the app debuted but now our entire library is there to test and rent. Read a bit more about the app in this blog post. If you want to dive in, visit our foundry pa News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/05/process-on-fontstand/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/05/process-on-fontstand/ Tue, 26 May 2015 00:00:00 GMT There’s a new way to test our typefaces, and not just that – you can rent them too. Fontstand, a desktop Mac application, lets you try fonts for free for one hour as well as rent them on a monthly basis at 10% of the normal license cost. Whether you rent or trial, the chosen fonts work right away in your design apps without you having to install them. At launch, Fontstand offers hundreds of typefa News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/03/minnesota-by-design/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/03/minnesota-by-design/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT The Nerf Ball. Masking tape. The Hüsker Dü logo. Cheerios and Wheaties. This is Minnesota design and we haven’t even mentioned the architecture. Or the chairs. Or the rollerblades (don’t roll your eyes). Or the magnetic poetry (don’t roll your eyes!). Walker Art Center launched a web-based initiative called Minnesota by Design and as you can see, we can’t pick a favorite. That’s why it’s such an h News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/03/new-release-scandia/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/03/new-release-scandia/ Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT We’re excited to announce the release of two new typefaces, Scandia and Scandia Line. Although they’re siblings deep down, their differences are more apparent than their similarities. Designed first, Scandia Line is a skeletal sans serif made entirely without curves. Scandia came next, taking Line’s circular proportions but abandoning the all-angle policy for generous curves instead. Each family h News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/02/improved-rendering-round-two/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2015/02/improved-rendering-round-two/ Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT More good news on the rendering front. As we promised last May when we improved Colfax Web, Klavika Web, and Klavika Condensed Web, we had other webfonts to refine. And in September we updated several other families with new, manually-hinted versions. Elena, each Bryant family, and Stratum 1 & 2 have all been significantly improved for screen rendering. These new fonts eliminate many of the irregu News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2014/07/new-release-pique/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2014/07/new-release-pique/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMT It’s summer here in Minneapolis and we’re celebrating with our newest release Pique! Combining the energetic elements of a brush script with the cool rationalization of digital beziers, Pique is a single weight display face overflowing with typographic personality. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2014/05/improved-rendering-for-three-webfont-families/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2014/05/improved-rendering-for-three-webfont-families/ Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT Over the years, we’ve been refining our webfonts for better performance but today we’re happy to announce significant improvements to select fonts. Colfax Web, Klavika Web and Klavika Condensed Web are now manually hinted — for ClearType and greyscale — providing a high degree of readability across browsers. In addition to manual hinting, some character shapes were adjusted to render nicely down t News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2013/05/buy-smart-upgrade/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2013/05/buy-smart-upgrade/ Fri, 31 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT In a nutshell, our upgrade program let’s you add licenses or more family members of previously purchased fonts without re-paying for what you’ve already purchased. The benefit, in both cases, is that you can buy what you need, when you need it, without penalty. It’s also a great way to try out fonts, starting with a single weight or pack, knowing you won’t pay for those fonts again if you purchase News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2013/05/colfax-in-use-make-it-bigger/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2013/05/colfax-in-use-make-it-bigger/ Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Our Colfax has been finding a home for itself on the web as of late. You won’t find tiny type in this lot of featured sites, but generous sizing that gives the type room to breath and shine. Below are a few websites using Colfax to great effect. --- Thankful, a wedding gift registry site, with headlines set in Colfax Thin and body copy (and some display) set in Elena. --- From Normative, a multidi News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2013/02/surprise-me-blums-fruit-cake/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2013/02/surprise-me-blums-fruit-cake/ Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Lettering is so often composed of perfect, soaring curves. Never a hair out of place. So, I was delighted to run into this tin that once held fruit cake from Blum’s, a well-loved San Francisco bakery closed since the 70s. The overall tone of the lettering is quick, fluid and slightly textured with a bit of angularity thrown in particularly at the baseline. When you get to the letters at the end or Found things https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/11/new-release-klavika-display/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/11/new-release-klavika-display/ Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT Customers have asked and we’ve always agreed – why doesn’t Klavika have a Black weight? Or an Extra Light? Good questions. Those lead us to wonder, what about an Ultra Black or a Thin as well? Why not fully explore the weight range, expand on the original and add something new? Sounds like the start of a great project! And with that, Klavika Display was born. Available in four weights – Thin, Extr News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/11/new-perspectives-nc-states-the-student-publication/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/11/new-perspectives-nc-states-the-student-publication/ Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT In the spring of 2012, eight students at North Carolina State University’s College of Design participated in a new course to curate, edit, design and publish The Student Publication, a journal that reports on important issues in the field of design. While they had the support of Dean Marvin Malecha, FAIA and were guided by the expertise of Assistant Professor Tania Allen, the students (Michael Car News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/07/an-interview-some-outtakes-and-credits/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/07/an-interview-some-outtakes-and-credits/ Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT If you happened by the FontFeed recently, you’ll find an interview with Process Type Foundry partners Eric Olson and Nicole Dotin by Yves Peters. Go ahead, read the words. Sometimes, though, we just want to ogle the pictures. Here are photos from the interview along with extended annotations, outtakes and some extras. Eric and Nicole standing in the doorway of the Process Type Foundry studio. At s News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/05/chrono-meet-colfax/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/05/chrono-meet-colfax/ Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT In our hearts, Chrono will always be called Chrono. However, we inadvertently crossed paths with another similarly named font and decided the name needed to change. So Chrono, meet Colfax! Residents of the Twin Cities will recognize the name Colfax as one of our city’s leafy, mostly residential streets. Consequently, it runs directly parallel to Bryant, another street-turned-font-name in our hands News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/04/klavika-property-of-fringe-division/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/04/klavika-property-of-fringe-division/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT As fans of J.J. Abrams, co-creator of the television show ‘Fringe,’ we were tickled by this tiny use of one of our typefaces in the show. From the episode ‘Everything in Its Right Place,’ the in-car communication and navigation system is branded the property of Fringe Division using Klavika, appropriately and soberly set in all caps. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/03/designing-colfax/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/03/designing-colfax/ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Colfax is a refined oval sans serif of 20th century origins and 21st century sensibilities. Influences ranging from the gruff Aurora Grotesk series to the elegant Neuzeit are paired with a subtle geometry and typographic utility to inform this family of sans serifs. Featuring a range of six weights with italics, the entire Colfax family is made up of twelve fonts. At the extreme ends of the range More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/03/new-release-chrono/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/03/new-release-chrono/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT We’re pleased to announce the release of our new typeface Colfax. At home within a range of design environments, Colfax is a refined oval sans serif of twelve styles ranging from Thin to Black with matching italics for each. Singles, packs and the complete family are available in both desktop and webfont formats. Colfax was formerly named Chrono. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/01/on-handwriting-and-memories/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/01/on-handwriting-and-memories/ Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT When I want to share something with someone these days, I send a quick email or a tweet. My time is often limited and my attention pulled in multiple directions so I’ve come to value the quickness and ease of communicating by digital means. Yesterday though, my mom sent me a recipe hand-written by my grandmother who passed away some time ago. Even though she sent it by email, the minute I saw my g Found things https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/01/remembering-2011-previewing-2012/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2012/01/remembering-2011-previewing-2012/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT It’s 2012 already but before we say goodbye to 2011 entirely, there were tidbits from the last 365 we don’t want to forget. And while we’re at it, we’ve included a preview of typefaces slated for release in the New Year. Seravek in iBooks The 1.5 update to Apple’s iBooks app included several new typefaces, our Seravek among them. Of the seven type choices within the app, Seravek is the only sans s News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/11/meet-the-stack/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/11/meet-the-stack/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT It took me five years to develop Elena. During that time, my constant companion was what we have taken to calling ‘the stack.’ Standing roughly a foot tall, the stack is a chronological collection of laser prints used to test Elena. Sadly, after a couple of studio moves, the current stack only dates back to 2009. Luckily, 2006, ’07 and ’08 are somewhere. Test documents never get thrown away, only News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/11/new-release-elena/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/11/new-release-elena/ Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT We’re pleased to announce the long-awaited release of Elena from type designer and Process Type Foundry partner Nicole Dotin. Designed specifically for text and extended reading, Elena is a contemporary text face well suited for magazines, books and editorial design. Pairing the inspiration of the broad-nibbed pen with a desire for a modern page color, Elena is a face of economical proportions, mo News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/09/type-at-the-fair/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/09/type-at-the-fair/ Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT The first Minnesota State Fair was in 1859, and since then (with just five exceptions due to wars and polio outbreaks), it has been held every year at the summer’s close. Facing this bittersweet farewell, Minnesotans choose to go out with a bang, bringing together a sensory-bombarding celebration of food, fun, agriculture, industry, art, music, history and overall indulgence. We three at Process T News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/08/from-the-stacks-berthold-type-foundry-specimen/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/08/from-the-stacks-berthold-type-foundry-specimen/ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT As type designers we naturally have many type specimens stashed away in our collection, though very few of them manage to elevate type beyond the typical waterfall showings and text settings. There are exceptions of course, but our latest addition goes the extra mile. With its gorgeous layouts and ersatz ads, we can’t help but appreciate this specimen from Berthold Type Foundry, numbered “525B”. F News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/08/in-use-capucine-and-anchor-pair-up-in-seattle/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/08/in-use-capucine-and-anchor-pair-up-in-seattle/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Seattle Met, a magazine covering the local scene in Seattle, WA, has been using Anchor and Bryant Compressed since May, when designer André Mora came on board. But it was for the summery July issue, with its focus on farms, foraging and other foodie adventures that Mora paired Anchor with the agile Capucine, named after the French word for the Nasturtium flower. As the newest addition to our famil Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/07/summer-reading/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/07/summer-reading/ Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT When we saw today’s release of the summer reading list for the University of Reading typeface design students, one title stood out. Gerry Leonidas, director of the program, has put together a great index of references that includes an influential monograph by William Addison Dwiggins. Dwiggins, an American illustrator and book designer, came to type design later in life. He wrote WAD to RR: a lett News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/found-type-adhesive-helvetica/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/found-type-adhesive-helvetica/ Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT Hidden within a large collection of rub down and transfer type we acquired last fall was this set of adhesive Helvetica caps and matching Samsonite logos. The stuffy palette says 1984 (as does the fine print on the bottom) but we can only guess at their use. We assume the letters’ original owner, an interior designer by trade, first personalized her luggage (her initials were VR) and then… well we Found things https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/not-all-who-wander-are-lost/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/not-all-who-wander-are-lost/ Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT Designer Ross Moody and his 55 Hi’s imprint are one of the reasons we love running our own type foundry. It’s been said that type design is a lonely, difficult and frustrating endeavor and while that can be true, it’s also immensely gratifying when the bi-product of your work is so surprising. ‘Is that our FIG Script?’ we wondered. When set in all caps, a script face doesn’t traditionally connect. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/the-fine-print-literally/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/the-fine-print-literally/ Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT The February issue of Print magazine, guest art directed by ProjectProjects, featured our oldest typeface Kettler. Starting on the cover and continuing throughout the issue, Kettler quietly punctuates conversations between a panel of selected guests on the subject of collaboration between disciplines. Kettler played a role in another magazine designed by ProjectProjects called Work, now out-of-pri Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/found-type-speedball-practice-sheet/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2011/03/found-type-speedball-practice-sheet/ Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT When buying used books, sometimes a glimpse of the previous owner comes with them. Inside our copy of “Lettering Poster Design For Pen And Brush” by Ross F. George, copyright 1941, is a very lightly used lettering practice sheet. On the opposite side of same sheet are several variations on the wordmark “Wick”. The previous owner’s last name? Found things https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/11/designing-capucine/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/11/designing-capucine/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Although Capucine defies traditional categorization, it sits in a genre we are drawn to as users of type: a face with distinct personality able to straddle the worlds of both text and display with ease. In this context it should come as no surprise that its designer was born and raised in France, a country whose type history is rich with successful instances of such attempts. From Auriol and Grass More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/11/new-release-capucine/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/11/new-release-capucine/ Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT More than four years in the making, we’re proud to finally announce the release of Capucine, a new family of types designed by Alice Savoie. With influences ranging from calligraphy to Art Nouveau to brush scripts, this five-weight family offers – to put it in a single phrase – joie de vivre. See more of Capucine and learn all the details about our latest release. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/08/in-use-klavika-in-south-africa/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/08/in-use-klavika-in-south-africa/ Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Durban, South Africa’s busiest port city, constructed the magnificent Moses Mabhida Stadium which allowed them to be a host stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup games. Büro für Gestaltung designed the wayfinding and identity and covered the stadium from the seats to the murals with our Klavika. When the games were over, Jonathan Jackson of WeShouldDoItAll was kind enough to send along images of the Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/08/designing-anchor/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/08/designing-anchor/ Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Designed for maneuvering in especially cramped quarters, Anchor is a four-weight family of round display gothics. As with many of our typefaces, Anchor’s life began as the solution to a typographic dead end: what if the narrowest style of a typeface isn’t narrow enough? That was the case when we redesigned our (previous) website and realized 48 pixels was a mighty narrow space for words like ‘down More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/08/new-release-anchor/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/08/new-release-anchor/ Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Anchor is our new four-weight family of round display gothics designed for maneuvering in especially cramped quarters. With weights ranging from Medium to Black, Anchor promises plump over-indulgence in the heavy weights and relatively sober display capabilities in the lighter weights. Of note are Anchor’s inflated arrows that can be seen throughout the specimens on this site. Available exclusivel News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/06/in-use-under-the-influence-magazine/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/06/in-use-under-the-influence-magazine/ Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT Designed by Xavier Encinas, Under the Influence is an art fashion magazine that gathers work from photographers, stylists, artists and writers around a single theme per issue. The theme for issue six is “Detroit” and Encinas chose Stratum 1 as the primary display typeface. Stratum is used extensively throughout the magazine in everything from a single page filled with one letter to cleanly execute Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/06/in-use-the-over-over-overprint-and-the-capital-a/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/06/in-use-the-over-over-overprint-and-the-capital-a/ Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT Longtime Process Type Foundry collaborator Allon Kaye of Entr’acte sent along this 12″ sleeve using eight of our capital A’s. It’s probably best to let Allon describe the project: “it’s an over-over-overprint of process [type foundry] ‘a’s for an event-only edition (15 copies) of a new 12″ (alpha, by jo thomas). these were originally overprinted for an event called avoid. the printers ran too many Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/05/new-in-use-matt-van-ekerens-tongue-depressor/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2010/05/new-in-use-matt-van-ekerens-tongue-depressor/ Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT We can say with some certainty that Matt Van Ekeren is the first to print our Stratum onto a tongue depressor that doubles as a business card and call them ‘business depressors’. We’re also pretty certain they won’t fit in your wallet but they’re all the more charming for it. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2009/12/find-us-in-lettering-type/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2009/12/find-us-in-lettering-type/ Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT Not to be confused with Ken Barber’s fine Type and Lettering, we have some work in the recently published Lettering & Type by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals. And many thanks for the Zen Arcade specimen (above, set in Bryant) call-out in tribute to our hometown umlaut fakers. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2009/05/lecture-process-type-foundry-at-the-walker/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2009/05/lecture-process-type-foundry-at-the-walker/ Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT We recently spoke at this year’s Insights Design Lecture Series hosted by the Walker Art Center and AIGA MN. The lecture was recorded and can be seen here: Walker Channel (also available through iTunes and YouTube). News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2008/11/new-release-klavika-condensed/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2008/11/new-release-klavika-condensed/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT Our Klavika series has just been expanded to make room for a new Condensed width. Have a look at the complete family. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2008/03/custom-type-sunday-for-the-new-york-times/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2008/03/custom-type-sunday-for-the-new-york-times/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT The New York Times Magazine has unveiled a new custom family of 13 fonts from the Process Type Foundry. Named Sunday, the family of sans serifs may be viewed at a local newstand or find the project in our custom services. Fonts in use https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2008/01/walker-top-10-seravek/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2008/01/walker-top-10-seravek/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Walker Art Center’s design director and curator Andrew Blauvelt included Seravek in a list of Minnesota design and architecture highlights for 2007. Other highlights included work from Alec Soth, Blu Dot, David Salmela, and HGA. News https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2007/03/designing-seravek/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2007/03/designing-seravek/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT Clear functionality, near invisibility and a tone whose presence is felt most once-removed – this is the essence of Seravek. Fonts of loud volume and expressive detail have a rightful place – we’ve made many ourselves – but fonts of near silence are equally intriguing and consequently very useful for complex texts. Building from this, Seravek is tailored to the demanding needs of information, edit More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2004/11/designing-klavika/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2004/11/designing-klavika/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT Frustrated with a lack of fonts both versatile and modern, we set out to design Klavika as a full-featured, do-it-all sans serif for the needs of the 21st century. Our result is a design that’s unadorned, modern and infinitely flexible. To achieve this, Klavika follows a decidedly hybrid typographic path – a cross of humanist and geometric influences with allegiances to neither. Crisp and open sha More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2004/01/designing-findreplace/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2004/01/designing-findreplace/ Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT Unlike other design mediums, type design works backwards from what is already agreed upon. That is to say, as readers, we’ve more or less come to a consensus on what an ‘a’ or a ‘b’ looks like so the job of type designers doesn’t often include rethinking such things. And for good reason: typefaces are for communicating messages from writers and designers directly to readers, not expressing oneself More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2002/08/designing-kettler/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2002/08/designing-kettler/ Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT Named in tribute to designer Howard ‘Bud’ Kettler whose ubiquitous Courier graces computers the world over, Kettler is a simple monospaced font of two weights. Like its mentor, Kettler is a twelve-pitch monospaced font – 12 characters fit within 1 inch at 10 point size. But before visions of Steelcase desks, IBM Selectric typewriters, and 12-inch bubble monitors take you away, remember that Kettle More about our fonts https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2002/07/designing-fig/ https://processtypefoundry.com/blog/2002/07/designing-fig/ Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT Named for the collaboration of Frank Sheeran, Ian Chai and Glenn Chappell that produced the FIGlet program, FIG is a set of three typefaces in the spirit of early email and ASCII art explorations. Written in 1991 using the programming language C, the FIGlet program allowed users to create letters with basic ASCII characters and then paste them into a software program of choice. Alphabets of surpri More about our fonts