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Mark Simonson

@marksimonson.bsky.social

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Type designer and font developer. www.marksimonson.com

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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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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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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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