Category Archives: Type Development

Letterform Column for Grafik

British design magazine Grafik asked me to contribute the April 2010 edition of their monthly “Letterform Column,” in which a guest writer discusses one letterform from one design. I chose to write about my work on the first of Ruzicka’s Studies, since I’ve been thoroughly immersed in that project. Read the full article after the [...]
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Studies Become Typefaces

I’ve often wondered why the design concepts from Ruzicka’s Studies in Type Design have never been completed as fully-functional typefaces, but instead have lain dormant through metal type (in its last years of prominence), phototype, and a series of digital type manufacture technologies. There are few Ruzicka-designed faces available to graphic designers, and several of [...]
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