I’ve always been unsure of what to do about my typeface Fern. It’s a texty Venetian serif that I designed early in my career with screens in mind. (Not that it should be limited to screens…I’ve seen it put to great use in print as well!) I
Here is an incredible use of Slight Chance for the recent PDD tour of the Indonesian alt-rock band Perunggu, designed by Under The Table. It is such an unexpected joy to have a font inspired by something very specific (the early digital rea…
Last month I sent you Megawarp, a sci-fi sans serif centered around the idea of fragmentation. But slicing letters into pieces doubtlessly impacts legibility, and I’ve watched a few people struggle to read the font. So I asked myself…what w…
See some BIG Job Clarendon on Book of Paul, a 2026 album by Texan country artist Paul Cauthen. The album was designed by Mitchell McCleary, with photography from Tyler Ellison. See more at Fonts in Use >
Part two of my two-part foundry launch happened 10 years ago today, when I launched Bungee from the bus as I was on my way to NYC for Typographics. The website you see on my screen was designed with Nick Sherman and Chris Lewis. On this bun…
Hot on the heels of the release of Fit Arabic, I am incredibly happy to announce Fit Kannada, designed by Taresh Vohra and released today by Mota Italic. I am not a speaker of Kannada or a reader of the Kannada script, but it doesn’t take a…
I haven’t been on top of my game this month. I know I had mentioned the italics I was working on for Lithographer Text, but I couldn’t bring myself to go through the focus-demanding, detail-oriented work of finishing them. I will send those…
Stop whatever you are doing right now and go check out Fit Arabic, designed by Sahar Afshar and released this past week by Dogray Type Foundry. Fit is a typeface that is primarily focused on filling space, a quality it shares with the Squar…
So…I know I said I was going to send you more Lithographer Text this month, but the universe had other plans. (In other words, I boneheadedly overwrote a bunch of my work on it earlier this week, without backing it up.) I debated sending yo…
While my wife Emily was getting her master’s degree at Dartmouth College, I often found myself on campus with time to kill. I spent most of it in Dartmouth’s iconic library building, which housed a massive mural, a letterpress studio, and p…
March 1, 2026 # David Jonathan Ross This month, I’m sending you Buckridge, a contrasted sans serif inspired by the lettering on the cover of a trigonometry textbook. I encountered this book at Nancy Dole Books & Ephemera, a lovely used book…
January 31, 2026 # David Jonathan Ross Last year, I sent you a story about how a squished use of my font Megavolt inspired me to make Megavolt Narrow. The moral of the story was that type designers should see stretching and squishing type n…