1/4 Exclusive interview with Fontsmith’s Phil Garnham
Here is the first in a series of 4 exclusive interviews with the über-talented Fontsmith team. We start with bass wielding, graphic loving, print obsessive Type Design Director Phil Garnham.Name: Phil...
View Article2/4 Exclusive interview with Fontsmith’s Fernando Mello
Here is our second in series of 4 exclusive interviews with the superstar type designers at London based Fontsmith. In this interview we chat with the man of the moment, Latin American funk & disco...
View ArticleClerkenwell by Fontsmith
For the last few weeks I have had the privilege to work (play) with FS Clerkenwell by Fontsmith. The description given by fontsmith isClerkenwell is an inspired design, based on influences in and...
View Article3/4 Exclusive interview with Fontsmith’s Emanuela Conidi
Continuing our series of exclusive interviews with London based Fontsmith, we bring you award winning, Italian, Football obsessed, supercharged type designer Emanuela Conidi.Name: Emanuela Conidi Time...
View ArticleBespoke Process by Phil Garnham
Letters. These alphabetical shapes, these strokes, swoops and flashy little tickles that get us excited have been evolving in ever increasing minutiae for centuries. Much like other forms of design,...
View ArticleFontsmith custom. MAC, Belfast.
Fontsmith have designed a brand new bespoke typographic identity for the Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC) in Belfast.In July 2011 the good folk at AV Browne asked Fontsmith to explore the creative...
View ArticleNew from Fontsmith — FS Elliot
FS Elliot A new generation sans serif with a British twist. A work-horse sans serif, ideal for a broad range of applications. FS Elliot is a robust, hard-working sans serif typeface for the 21st...
View ArticleNew from Fontsmith — FS Olivia
FS Olivia Capturing the poetry of pen, ink and paper. A serif typeface that captures the details of the process of writing. Inspired by Dutch and Belgian poetry books and Sjoerk Hendrik de Roos’s...
View ArticleNew from Fontsmith — FS Truman
FS Truman Taking a bespoke sans serif beyond broadcast. A sans serif font that takes the humanist model to a different, more interesting level. Originally designed by Jason Smith and Fernando Mello as...
View ArticleFS Emeric
Renowned type design studio Fontsmith has today launched FS Emeric, a new typeface that represents the culmination of over two years’ work by Fontsmith’s type design director, Phil Garnham. The...
View ArticleThree New Fonts from Fontsmith
Fontsmith have launched three new typefaces: FS Maja, FS Matthew and FS Hackney.FS Maja FS Maja is a bright and cheeky face. Bubbly, punchy, and entertaining. Distinctively warm with soft rounded...
View ArticleExclusive interview with Fontsmith’s Stuart de Rozario
Last year we brought you an exclusive series of interviews with London based Fontsmith and their design team. Since then things have continued to expand in Fontsmith’s Clerkenwell HQ and to update the...
View ArticleFontsmith. Brandfont®
As part of a review of it’s licensing model, leading type design studio Fontsmith, has launched a new service, Brandfont®, and now offers webfonts and other formats for digital use direct from its new...
View ArticleFS Silas → The enigmatic type | Fontsmith
Fontsmith have today launched a new typeface, called FS Silas. It’s available in both sans serif and slab serif form, with each family containing 5 weights plus the italics.This gives FS Silas the...
View ArticleFS Shepton → The natural type | Fontsmith
Fontsmith releases new hand-crafted typeface, FS SheptonFontsmith announces the release of FS Shepton, a brand new truly hand-drawn typeface developed specifically for use as a display font in...
View ArticleFS Brabo → The eloquent type | Fontsmith
Introducing FS Brabo, the eloquent typeFontsmith, London’s leading type design studio, publishes a new font that brings a beautifully bookish personality to hardworking modern applications.FS Brabo is...
View ArticleFS Aldrin
Fontsmith launch FS Aldrin, ‘the Radiant Type’, with help from Team BuzzFS Aldrin is a new typeface from boutique type foundry Fontsmith, available in 6 weights plus an accompanying suite of icons....
View ArticleFS Lucas → Geometric Sans | Fontsmith
FS Lucas is a new typeface from boutique type foundry Fontsmith. Based on near-perfect circles, triangles and squares, what could be simpler? Geometric typefaces, though, often make for a...
View ArticleFS Siena → Luxury typeface | Fontsmith
You can’t hurry a good typeface. All that sketching, drawing, honing, editing, balancing… Then there are the uppercase and italics to perfect, and different weights. Sometimes, it can take years. Few...
View ArticleBBC One – Fontsmith
The challenge was designing a unique logotype and typeface that would appeal to such a diverse audience and still convey the traditional BBC One image, but with an element of freshness in the...
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