Projects
Here are a few custom commissions, as well as some typefaces designed for other foundries over the years.
About Loud
Loud was commissioned for use by a professional sports team in the midst of a major rebrand. As their identity evolved, the team’s social media and promotional departments used Loud Extra Bold for headlines that needed to appear strong and solid. After adding a companion set of figures, Loud was adapted for the team’s uniform numbers, as well. (Released 2021.)
About Ogrady Mono
Ogrady Mono is a custom monospace family commissioned by Polari Press—an independent publishing house which seeks out hidden voices and helps them be heard—who were launching a new line of plays. To create Ogrady Mono, I took the kind of workaday typewriter style one might find in a script, and gave it a little more of a signature flair—a bit of mince in its walk, if you will. The family is named to honor Paul O’Grady, the British performer widely known by his stage persona, Lily Savage. (Released August 2023.)
About R41 Olympia
Olympia started life as a little-known geometric sans typeface, designed by Aldo Novarese exclusively for R41, with a single extra-light weight of dry transfer type, featuring only numerals and Greek letters. Now, R41 Olympia has been expanded by Bijou Type into a full, contemporary multilingual family of 14 styles. In Novarese’s original words: Olympia has “very clear linear style with a simplified round shape in an elegant structure. It adapts to high-impact applications where maximum legibility is required—in alphabetical purity.” (Released March 2024.)
About R41 Stop
“The most discussed and imitated font in the international graphic field,” according to its original designer, Aldo Novarese. For this new digital version of Stop for Italian type foundry R41, it was important to draw inspiration from the dry transfer type they originally manufactured. R41 Stop is based on the decades-old films prepared for the dry transfer Stop, but given many more glyphs that extend the concept, including a wide variety of accented characters, symbols, and letters for the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets. R41 Stop is also filled with OpenType-enabled alternates for many of its letters, based on adaptations made over the years by designers and signmakers worldwide. (Released January 2023.)
About Monotype Modern Display™
Monotype Modern Display is based on Series No. 1 Modern, the very first typeface produced by British Monotype, back in 1900 (itself adapted from Miller & Richard nos. 23 and 28). This contemporary reworking is a companion display weight for Monotype Modern MT®. Originally designed for Centrefold magazine. (Released 2013.)