Riley Cran

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Typeface Designer (I make fonts).
Founder of Lettermatic
Co-founder of Lost Type | 🔠 He/Him 🔤
Workhttps://lettermatic.com
birdsitehttps://twitter.com/rileycran
Riley CranMar 7, 2025

The swashes in WeGo Serif also have smart OpenType settings which auto-magically choose the best swash combinations on the fly. 🔤

Read more about the design process here:

https://lettermatic.com/custom/fetch-case-study

Lettermatic | Fetch

Custom Fonts for Fetch

Lettermatic | Fetch
Riley CranMar 7, 2025
Riley CranMar 6, 2025

New Work: Fonts for Fetch. 🔡 🐕 🔠

We made a custom type system comprised of a workhorse sans and friendly serif for one of the most popular shopping apps in the USA. Read the full case study here:

https://lettermatic.com/custom/fetch-case-study

Lettermatic | Fetch

Custom Fonts for Fetch

Lettermatic | Fetch
Riley CranMar 6, 2025

New Work: Fonts for Fetch. 🔡 🐕 🔠

We made a custom type system comprised of a workhorse sans and friendly serif for one of the most popular shopping apps in the USA. Read the full case study here:

https://lettermatic.com/custom/fetch-case-study

Lettermatic | Fetch

Custom Fonts for Fetch

Lettermatic | Fetch
Riley CranJan 14, 2025
Birthday! Another trip around the sun.
Riley CranNov 26, 2024
When I was 20 years old, I got an email from a woman who owned a mid century motel in PA. She asked me to design a new logo for the motel, and I began relentlessly studying the history of motel signage. I wanted to try to make something that felt like it had always been there.
Riley CranNov 22, 2024

I was under the mistaken impression that this famed piece of lettering was from the 1970s.

Here it is shown in a typeface specimen book from 112 years ago, the year the Titanic sank. It must be older than that, originally.

Riley CranNov 11, 2024
Lots of Dad jokes in here about oscillators and low pass filters. 🎹
Riley CranNov 8, 2024
Riley CranFeb 17, 2023

I’ve been watching the incredible PsychOdyssey series from 2 Player Productions and Double Fine, about the making of Psychonauts 2.

It made me want to share a story of how we made the fonts for that game, that I haven’t really explained in-depth before.

(Thread 🧵⬇️)

#gamedev #fonts #typography #doubleFine #design #gamedesign

Riley CranJul 18, 2024

“Do you want to watch Terminator 2?” - my wife.

I married very well.

Riley CranJun 24, 2024
As I get wiser as a developer, I realize that one of the best skills to hone is simply ‘knowing what shape to leave a project in for the day’. Leaving something in a certain condition where you can think of it as sound, and organized, decently functioning, just for this evening. Versus setting yourself up to dwell on the absence of those things.