Mark Simonson Studio

Typeface designer and font developer.

[Mark Simonson Studio @marksimonson]

If you’ve ever wanted to try any of my fonts in a real layout before committing, here’s your chance. Starting this week, Typographer is free to use! Find and test over 15,000 fonts from me and other foundries. When you find the right one, you can license it in the same place.

Start exploring at https://t.co/LYDKcJgkOR

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@MarkFonts 🙂

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My website has a new look! It brings back some of the spirit of my original site. It already feels like home to me. Thanks to Scott Kellum, Kelsey Scherer, and Roel Nieskens. Visit https://t.co/mv6eNYNgeb today. While there, you can find the Notebook entry about the update.

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@typegirl Thanks!

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Read the story behind Neotype
https://t.co/lukYBq1w3C

Neotype is available at https://t.co/un3QLCYWWc & https://t.co/514u8RP84I 📷

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Fifty years in the making! What began as a college type design project in 1976 has become Neotype—a retro-futuristic display family blending the influence of uncial script with 1970s geometric sans serif design.

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New! Heckle is a brush script typeface for display use. It started as a tiny sketch for a t-shirt design in 2005, based on my memories of script lettering from the ’40s and ’50s.

More info here: https://t.co/ZxorQN6cEc

And here: https://t.co/IleAfcc5MT

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@Tipoteca Thanks!

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Fifty years ago this month is when my interest in type design began... https://t.co/ohuDlBQk1g

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My Bookmania (Light Italic) and Etna (Bold Italic and Condensed) showed up for a couple of seconds in tonight's episode of #Pluribus ... (I hope this isn't a spoiler...)

[Tiffany Wardle @typegirl]

More vintage modern goodness from @marksimonson today!

Vintage because I get phototypesetting vibes.
Modern because it is ripe for the serif trend happening right now.

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@fontcult Thanks!

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New! Hardcover is an elegant serif typeface intended for display use. It was one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch I did in 1978, inspired by the slick lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers.

More info here: https://t.co/k3rerxh5TG

And here: https://t.co/zCeWgelbTY

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A few weeks ago, I did a talk for the Type Tuesday group in Minneapolis about the backstory behind Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones typeface and my revival of it. If you'd like to see the talk, I put it on YouTube: https://t.co/tXyjlSpOJy

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My entire font library is now available on Typographer!
https://t.co/WboqoXlPlo @TypographerApp

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Mark Simonson Studio at 25: It didn't start out as a digital type foundry... https://t.co/otijmxLqzf

[Mark Simonson Studio @marksimonson]

I'm not alone in being unimpressed by Apple Intelligence, but this is one of the most unimpressive examples: It frequently summarizes and highlights as "priority" phishing attempts in the Mail app as if they are real, but somehow lacks the brains to identify them as fraudulent.

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@ilovetypography Thank you!