Mark Simonson

Mark Simonson Studio has a new home online, bringing back the spirit of the original site. Visit marksimonson.com today & while you’re there, you can read about the new design in Mark’s Notebook. Many thanks to Scott Kellum (design director), Kelsey Scherer (designer), & Roel Nieskens (developer).

50 years in the making! 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. The story behind Neotype marksimonson.com/notebook Available at marksimonson.com & typographer.com

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: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...

Fifty years ago this month is when my interest in type design began... www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

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...)

Hardcover is an elegant new serif typeface for display use. It's one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch in 1978, inspired by the lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers. More info here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...

A great talk packed with type nerdery and ending on a heartwarming note. Skin & Bones was fairly successful for VGC fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31..., but earned Douglas F. Jones only $240 over a decade. Mark’s 2024 restoration will bring Jones double that amount within its first two years.

Find @marksimonson.bsky.social, Hamilton Wood Type, American Type Founders, Red Rooster Collection, Typetanic Fonts, and many more on Typographer. Start your free trial at typographer.com today!

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 it, I put it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAG...

My entire font library is now available on Typographer! typographer.com @typographerapp.bsky.social

We’re celebrating 10 years of Letterform Archive with #100Tens. This segment features contributions from:⁠ ⁠ Thomas Ingmire⁠ Michael Schwab⁠ Sean Adams⁠ Mark SImonson @marksimonson.bsky.social Alejandro Chavetta Clement Mok Marian Bantjes alongside items from the Archive’s collection by:⁠

Mark Simonson Studio at 25: It didn't start out as a digital type foundry... www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

The growth & popularity of Proxima Nova in the last 20 years is beyond my wildest dreams when I released it in 2005. I feel incredibly lucky & grateful to all who has helped along the way, especially to the designers who decided it was the best font for the job. www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

I'm happy to see that WB Animation is still using the lettering I did for them in 2008 (the part below the WB shield). Seen on the trailer for their latest feature, "The Day the Earth Blew Up," which I hear is good.

ALERT: The font on the Minnesota Senate Building has changed from Proxima Nova SEMIBOLD to Proxima Nova EXTRABOLD. END ALERT.

The story of my latest typeface, Synergy, goes back to a couple of sketches in 1981. Read more here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

I've been rewatching season 1 of Severance and spotted my Acme Gothic on a band poster. It's only there for a split second, but it caught my eye, of course. The name is obscured, but thanks to a little research, I discovered that it's "ABRUMPO" (latin for "separated") fronting for "Fissureman."

(Re)introducing Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...