Design
my first hand drawn font
hand drawn version of univers
type stitched in cloth
nasty gimicky trendy type
Typography

Everything I do is typographic but I have set aside some projects here. They may not be the most beautiful but they represent different ways of thinking about type.

The first image is the font XXX. It is based on Madison. Mongrel Magazine had previously used Madison extensively, but part of their re-design was to 'loosen-up' so I drew it by hand, scanned it and fontified it

Mongivers comes from the same kernel of an idea but is based on Univers when the mag went sans-serif.

The other two samples of work are a title for a fashion piece where I embroidered the type and scanned it in and a diatribe aginst overly heavy rounded geometric letterforms with no counters. One company in London did it and now everyone has. Why use someone else's ideas?

Fontified is a verb of my on creation. You may use it but do not confuse it with typefacified.


ronan(at)aworthycause(dot)net
+353 (0)87 909 2403
Marino, Dublin 3, Ireland