Just got an Honorable Mention on Typographica’s Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 list for my Playfair Display, and it’s even one of the editor’s favourites. Thank you Mr.… View More

I was asked to select a typeface for Typographica’s list of Favorite Typefaces of 2011. While Gerard Unger’s Capitolium News 2 is… View More

My presentation entitled Typography for touch-screen devices has been accepted for the 2011 ATypI conference in Reyjkavik. The conference runs from the 14-18 of September, and my presentation will take place Thursday the 15th at… View More

I'm pleased to announce that the first font of the Playfair family is now published on the Google Web Fonts service. The font is the regular weight of the display family, and the… View More

I am attending the TypeTalks2 symposium at the University of Arts in Poznań, on the 18 and 19 of June, 2011. I will be making an exactly 321 seconds long informal presentation entitled 'Lost in pixelation'. It will be about… well, I won't give it away here.… View More

I have been given financial support by the Google Web Fonts team to design a typeface family. In fact you are looking at this design right now. This website uses Playfair Display (as the typeface is named) as a webfont to display the text. Playfair is a transitional design. From the time of enlightenment in the late 18th century, the broad nib… View More