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  3 pieces of calligraphic lettering, commissioned by the kind Alistair at Monolith Type Co.

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  @DunwichType Cheers mate!

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  First glance at an upcoming typeface named “Roots”. I will go deeper into the concept some other day. The display styles (shown here) are sometimes inspired by, sometimes directly taken from, book cover lettering by Helmut Salden. Salden was named “The Face of the Dutch Book”, and drew some of the most perfect letterforms that I’ve ever seen.

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  New release: Arny and Arny Sans, my take on the quintessential Art Nouveau typeface, Arnold Böcklin. Take a closer look on my all-new website, herzbergdesign.com Free, full feature trials and student discounts available. #advertisement

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  ANOTHER release: ✨Alas✨ Alas is a new take on blackletter, a thousand-year old genre that can still prove refreshing. It mixes refined calligraphic elegance with psychedelic twists, like bottom-heavy letterforms and seemingly liquid swashes. Alas pushes boundaries: of the established type corpus, and of my own skill, in an attempt to make something that feels sincerely new. There’s a select group of designers out there who can wield a font like Alas, and hoist it to a higher plain of being. Ar...

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  Day 10 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days (weeks?). Today: another blackletter.

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  Day 4 of drawing a font every other day: monospaced blackletter.

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  Day 5 of Drawing a Font Every Day. Took a few days off, but am back with this little connecting script font. Not based on anything specific, just a marker script that looks like something you’d see on a 1930’s movie poster or aperitif ad. Handwriting-ish but also crisp, bordering geometric. I managed to make this work with very few contextual alternates. It’s pretty rough around the edges, but I guess that’s the nature of fonts drawn in the span of a day!

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  Anybody know anything about this script font that makes a one-page appearance in Deberny & Peignot's 1930 Spécimen Général v1?

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  Day 6 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days: Art Nouveau Script revival. Based on an early 20th century French font that I can’t find much information about.

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  Day 8 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days. Today: reverse contrast Art Nouveau, based on a hand-painted sign I passed by chance in Amsterdam Oud Zuid.

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  Day 9 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days. Today: Belle Epoque French Roundhand Revival. This is another typeface with unclear origins, but the earliest sample I know of is from a specimen by Deberny & Cie from around 1908, likely designed in-house. I first caught wind of it in Louise Fili’s “Scripts” compendium, and was in awe with the absolute elegance. Those hairlines, those enormous caps, woof! Huge thanks to the walking talking catalogue Florian Hardwig (@fhardwig) for helping me...

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  Day 7 of Drawing a Font Every Couple Days. It’s been a week since the last font, and I spent 3 days on this one. Forgive me. Today: 1900’s Arts & Crafts/Jugendstil/Whateverist take on Fraktur, with organic curves, Lombardic capitals and lots of ornament, that does well in a Brothers Grimm setting.