ellis carson jones

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graphic & type designer.

i love good books, good dogs, and good type.
making fonts at prologuetype.co.
pronounsthey/them
type foundryhttps://www.prologuetype.co
portfoliohttps://www.elliscarsonjones.com
pleased to report that after resisting coding for my entire life i gave in and decided to start learning python for type design and 1) i am making good progress and 2) i am… having fun?!

Happy to announce that Overlap Type now has a selection of our typefaces available through Adobe Fonts. Please go sync them, and happy new year!

https://fonts.adobe.com/foundries/overlap-type
#adobefonts #typeface #graphicdesign

currently i can get about as far as running a file through the online version of fontbakery and fixing most of the issues it finds by googling the error messages, but i would love to feel more confident in understanding what i am doing and why
looking for resources to learn font engineering; does anyone have recommendations? particularly for someone with only a tiny bit of coding knowledge
@flaviazim such great insights & writing! also, quite disturbingly relatable: https://contraforma.substack.com/p/is-finishing-fonts-a-lie
Is Finishing Fonts a Lie? Lessons from a Production Sprint

Type designer Flavia Zimbardi on why finishing fonts is a myth, and how structure, timing, and collaboration sustain meaningful creative freedom.

Contraforma
the even newer one in question
Ellis Design a Font That Doesn’t Have Concave Stems Challenge.
difficulty: impossible

At the beginning of the month I made the Type Foundry Directory shuffle all of the entries by default (which will hopefully help designers discover new foundries).

And now you can quickly change the sort order by clicking on the sort option next to the Name heading.

Oh and shout out to XYZ for being the first TFD nameplate sponsor ✨

help! i can’t stop abandoning in-progress fonts to start new ones that i later abandon to start even newer ones!