font_designer: Mark Simonson

Parkside

Parkside font

Parkside (2018) is a script typeface inspired by typefaces and lettering of the 1930s and 1940s. Unlike metal typefaces from that era, it takes advantage of modern digital typography, where letters may overlap and...

Etna

Etna font

Etna was inspired by the Aetna wood type style of the late nineteenth century. Etna tames this quirky Victorian design into a complete family subtable for modern use, adding a full range of six...

Proxima Vara

Proxima Vara font

Proxima Vara is a variable version of the Proxima Nova type family. In a single font file, it contains all the weights and styles of Proxima Nova—plus any style between them along any of...

Proxima Sera

Proxima Sera font

Mark Simonson’s Proxima Sera answers the question that designers and typographers have asked for more than fifteen years—what serif typeface should I pair with Proxima Nova? Proxima Sera is a hybrid design, combining characteristics...

Dreamboat

Dreamboat font

A typeface nearly 20 years in the making, Dreamboat is Mark Simonson’s take on the bold script style popular during the first few decades of the 20th century and revived later in custom lettering...