font_designer: George Ryan
I once tried to imagine what the children of Schoolbook and Bodoni would look like if they were married. I’m still trying to imagine that! In the meantime I drew the Jingles.
Keep Big Stuff away from toner and ink as it can’t resist eating them up.
Friendly. Open. Self-confident. Generous and inclusive. Intellect and libido guided by the measured tension and release patterns of a well-validated ego.So might a graphologist characterize the handwriting reflected in this useful script typeface…
This typeface was named for one of George’s daughters, at her request, after she discovered that another of George’s designs, ITC Kristen, bore an appellation strikingly similar to that of her sister. And then...
George Ryan’s font of typographic ornaments and borders, available as a free download from Galápagos.
The Kennedy family is a completely original design, inspired by lettering discovered by George during his exploration of 16th century cartography, some years ago. The charm exhibited by these beautiful artifacts is as much...
In the 70’s I went out with a girl whose father was a card-carrying member of 3 of the biggest unions in the printing arts. He gave me 2 things, a pre-war Linotype specimen...
Thirteen or 14 years ago I admired, out loud, a book I found on a shelf in Matt Carter’s office. That Christmas I was pleasantly surprised to find that Matt had found another copy...