As part of my senior thesis, I designed a type series for the text and headlines of our student newspaper, as well as a handful of display faces including my Wild West font Manicotti. “I became interested in typography while attending Hampshire College in Massachusetts. David Jonathan Rossįont designer David Jonathan Ross is from LA originally, but now based in Boston, where he works with The Font Bureau, a leading type foundry with clients like The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and filmmaker Wes Anderson (they publish the font for Moonrise Kingdom created by Jessica Hische). David Jonathan Ross, who runs his own type foundry DJR, and Eleni Beveratou, a Font Developer with London studio Dalton Maag, share some insight into the process of bringing a brand new font to life. Who are the designers behind Google’s favorite typefaces? We spoke to two of them to find out what it takes to design a font for Google. From classic to creative, the new font selection supports over 135 languages, and is set up to let typography buffs easily discover new fonts by browsing through style categories like Serif or Handwriting. The new, updated Google Fonts is a treasure trove of open source, totally free-to-use typefaces.
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