@marksimonson.bsky.social
Type designer and font developer. www.marksimonson.com
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...)
13.12.2025 02:51 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1I know, right? Thanks!
10.11.2025 20:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
10.11.2025 19:53 — 👍 36 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 3A 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.
25.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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 it, I put it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAG...
22.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
My entire font library is now available on Typographer!
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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...
24.09.2025 15:21 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0I found out last night at the after party that there is one (obvious) person tied with me: JP Porter! She started doing the AV for TypeCon the first time it was in Minneapolis in 2003.
10.08.2025 14:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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...
30.06.2025 21:09 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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.
18.03.2025 17:45 — 👍 38 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Minnesota Senate Building in May 2016, showing buillding sign letters in Proxima Nova Semibold font.
Minnesota Senate Building in May 2025, showing building sign letters in the Proxima Nova Extrabold font.
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...
06.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
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."
23.02.2025 03:10 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've never liked or understood the "Th" ligature. If it's a good idea, why not a "TH" ligature?
14.02.2025 20:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
(Re)introducing Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...
22.04.2024 19:31 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
