James Mosely's series of lectures on the history of letterforms were delivered every year to students in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. These were recorded in 2020-21, and are now available for everyone to watch: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New work: a fresh new nameplate for @torontolifemag.bsky.social, drawn by Julien Priez @boogypaper.bsky.social for design director Colleen Nicholson. commercialtype.com/custom/toron...

I'm laying out Gun Magic Techno Pop in Focal and it's such a blast to work with. I wish phototypesetting had still been in use when I began my career, I would have eaten that shit up. Focal designed by @greggazdowicz.bsky.social, available from @commercialtype.bsky.social

This was a fun project to help out on. Miguel Reyes redrew the logotype, and Control is used throughout the identity, including an early version of Control Compressed.

Jim Parkinson was a kind and gentle soul, in addition to being unbelievably talented. He will be missed.

Please take this survey and help the Fontstand Cooperative figure out how font licensing needs have evolved.

See Royal Gothic here: commercialtype.com/catalog/roya... Read Paul Barnes's essay on the family here: commercialtype.com/about/collec...

NEW RELEASE! Royal Gothic by @paul-barnes.bsky.social, with help from Luke Charsley and Tim Ripper, comes out of the Vault with a full range of seven weights. Starting from a single bold weight, and folding in influences from the US and Germany, it preserves the quirks of early squarish sans serifs.

New work: Greg Gazdowicz and Christian Schwartz drew a new nameplate for Swedish news outlet Aftonbladet, directed by Anna Thurfjell. Read our case study here: commercialtype.com/custom/namep... More about the thinking here: annathurfjell.com/work/brand-r...

New work for New York Magazine's annual Yesteryear issue. commercialtype.com/news/ny_mag_... We recreated the lettering on the 1975 poster for A Chorus Line for design director Tom Alberty and his team.

We have some case studies from the Commercial Type Design Studio here, with more to come: commercialtype.com/design

Though Commercial Studio didn't survive 2020, we regrouped and have rebuilt our corporate identity studio within Commercial Type, under the direction of Dino Sanchez. This has quietly been going on alongside our other work for the past couple of years, and now we're taking a moment to talk about it.

New in our news section, Caren @lither.land interviewed Shiva Nallaperumal about Delegate, how he came to type design, and the studio November that he runs jointly with Juhi Vishani: commercialtype.com/news/shiva_n...

New in the Vault: Caslon Ionic Rounded, adapted from Caslon Ionic by @greggazdowicz.bsky.social vault.commercialtype.com

Lovely use of Orleans ↓

New in the Vault: Jargon, a condensed headline typeface with a giant x-height by Thomas Bouillet. vault.commercialtype.com

Type Today also recently published an excellent interview with @letterror.bsky.social by Ilya Ruderman: type.today/en/journal/e...

Great interview with @boogypaper.bsky.social by Adelina Shaidullina for Type Today: type.today/en/journal/j...

Congratulations to Lisa Huang and the whole team behind @wordsoftype.com on today's beta launch! This is already a great resource and is going to keep getting better. wiki.wordsoftype.com/

Double Acts in Pop is now shipping! Its Nice That has a writeup today: www.itsnicethat.com/articles/com... commercialtype.com/goods/double...

Take a closer look at Place by @boogypaper.bsky.social in the PDF specimen: commercialtype.com/uploads/1224...

New release! Announcing Place, a wide and beautiful serif display typefaces for all sizes by the brilliant type designer and calligrapher Julien Priez. Place offers both Latin and blackletter capitals, giving it a particular skill for creating logotypes. commercialtype.com/catalog/place

One of the unused Kafka covers where Williamson Italic was first intended to appear, thanks to David Pearson.

Truly incredible.

New in the Vault! Williamson Italic, a one-off display italic by Paul Barnes. vault.commercialtype.com

Congratulations to Commercial Type partner Paul Barnes, who has just been elected a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Formed in 1952, the AGI is the most prestigious graphic design organisation in the world, with over 540 members in 47 countries all chosen by their peers.

Paul is speaking at the National Library of Ireland tomorrow as part of Design Week in Dublin. Free admission! More details here: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

I recently added a Display family to the Terza collection, adapting it for tighter leading, with shortened ascenders and descenders, and with tighter tracking for punchy headlines. License the family or download a free trial version at commercialtype.com/catalog/terza

Preorders are open for our new type specimen "Double Acts in Pop: An Incomplete Survey", written by Molly Lambert and designed by Chris Wu at Wkshps. commercialtype.com/goods/double...