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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

50 years in the making! A college type design project in 1976 has become Neotype—a retro-futuristic display family blending the influence of uncial script with 1970s geometric sans serif design. The story behind Neotype marksimonson.com/notebook Available at marksimonson.com & typographer.com

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New! Heckle is a brush script typeface for display use. It started as a tiny sketch for a t-shirt design in 2005, based on my memories of script lettering from the ’40s and ’50s. More info here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Fifty years ago this month is when my interest in type design began... www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

My Bookmania (Light Italic) and Etna (Bold Italic and Condensed) showed up for a couple of seconds in tonight's episode of #Pluribus ... (I hope this isn't a spoiler...)

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Hardcover is an elegant new serif typeface for display use. It's one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch in 1978, inspired by the lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers. More info here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...

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Typographica @typographica.org · 25/10/2025

A great talk packed with type nerdery and ending on a heartwarming note. Skin & Bones was fairly successful for VGC fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31..., but earned Douglas F. Jones only $240 over a decade. Mark’s 2024 restoration will bring Jones double that amount within its first two years.

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Skin & Bones in use

A VGC typeface by Douglas F. Jones, released in 1972 [Graphic Arts Monthly, Oct. 1972]. Appeared in a December 1972 issue of Industrial Art Methods where Jones says he was inspired by the Bauhaus. In...

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Typographer @typographerapp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Find @marksimonson.bsky.social, Hamilton Wood Type, American Type Founders, Red Rooster Collection, Typetanic Fonts, and many more on Typographer. Start your free trial at typographer.com today!

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

A few weeks ago, I did a talk for the Type Tuesday group in Minneapolis about the backstory behind Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones typeface and my revival of it. If you'd like to see it, I put it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDAG...

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The Story of Skin & Bones

YouTube video by Mark Simonson

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 19/10/2025

We’re celebrating 10 years of Letterform Archive with #100Tens. This segment features contributions from:⁠ ⁠ Thomas Ingmire⁠ Michael Schwab⁠ Sean Adams⁠ Mark SImonson @marksimonson.bsky.social Alejandro Chavetta Clement Mok Marian Bantjes alongside items from the Archive’s collection by:⁠

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Mark Simonson Studio at 25: It didn't start out as a digital type foundry... www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The growth & popularity of Proxima Nova in the last 20 years is beyond my wildest dreams when I released it in 2005. I feel incredibly lucky & grateful to all who has helped along the way, especially to the designers who decided it was the best font for the job. www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm happy to see that WB Animation is still using the lettering I did for them in 2008 (the part below the WB shield). Seen on the trailer for their latest feature, "The Day the Earth Blew Up," which I hear is good.

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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

ALERT: The font on the Minnesota Senate Building has changed from Proxima Nova SEMIBOLD to Proxima Nova EXTRABOLD. END ALERT.

Minnesota Senate Building in May 2016, showing buillding sign letters in Proxima Nova Semibold font.

Minnesota Senate Building in May 2025, showing building sign letters in the Proxima Nova Extrabold font.

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The story of my latest typeface, Synergy, goes back to a couple of sketches in 1981. Read more here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I've been rewatching season 1 of Severance and spotted my Acme Gothic on a band poster. It's only there for a split second, but it caught my eye, of course. The name is obscured, but thanks to a little research, I discovered that it's "ABRUMPO" (latin for "separated") fronting for "Fissureman."

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Mark Simonson @marksimonson.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

(Re)introducing Douglas F. Jones' Skin & Bones: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie...

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