Doves Type Headline was designed for larger applications such as titles, headings, and sub-headings. It evolved due to practical considerations arising from work on the Thames Tideway project. It is lighter and sharper that the Text font, recommended for sizes above 20 pt, for use as an optically adjusted cut of the Doves Type. Read more … Read More
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Grace Roman
Grace Roman was drawn as an exercise by Paul Harpin, immediately after designing his first typeface Laura which was released to raise funds for Cancer charities and became the foundation of the buyfontssavelives campaign. Laura was Harpin’s niece, another cancer victim. Her middle name was Grace. “I wanted to try my hand at a … Read More
BWord 2.0
BWord is an all caps sans serif typeface designed by Matt Willey in two weights, Regular & Bold. The condensed width letterforms feature overtly rounded terminals and monolinear strokes. In 2020 Matt became a partner at Pentagram in New York and donated a further 5 type families to BuyFontsSaveLives including BWord. An updated version 2.0 of the typeface was … Read More
MFred Rounded 2.0
MFred Rounded is a condensed caps-only headline face in 2 weights, Regular & Heavy. The typeface was designed by Matt Willey with assistance from A2-Type’s Henrik Kubel and includes alternate versions of the G, K, M, R & W glyphs. MFred Rounded (2.0) has been extensively reworked for its release in 2021, with assistance … Read More
Blakey Slab 2.0
Blakey Slab is a condensed, all-caps slab serif typeface in two weights, Regular & Bold. It was originally designed by Matt Willey to be donated to the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Blakey Slab was used in the New York Times Magazine L.A. Noir ‘Great Performances’ issues published in print and also used online in … Read More
NSW 01 2.0
NSW 01’s characters fit together compactly and are all the same height, without ascenders or descenders to break the line. Designed by Matt Willey, former art director at the New York Times, this compressed display typeface is not in the least bit shy. Thick strokes are outspoken and assertive, well suited to impart a forceful, modern … Read More
AType Stencil 2.0
AType Stencil is a hybrid all caps font designed by Matt Willey featuring stencil letterforms on the upper case and solid characters on the lower case slots. The typeface has distinctively soft, rounded corners on the terminals and counters. In 2020 Matt became a partner at Pentagram in New York and donated a further 5 type families to BuyFontsSaveLives including … Read More
Timmons NY 2.0
Timmons NY is a bold, compressed, caps-only headline font in one weight with multiple glyph alternates. It was graciously donated to the BuyFontsSaveLives (BFSL) campaign by designer Matt Willey in honour of his father Nick who was taken by cancer in 2011. This narrow and muscular headline font, designed by Matt with assistance from A2-Type’s Henrik Kubel, was originally … Read More
Organon
Organon has been kindly donated to the BuyFontsSaveLives campaign by G-Type’s Nick Cooke. Organon comes in both sans and serif styles and this charity volume contains 2 weights (Regular & Bold) from each family, 4 fonts in total. Organon is a stylish and feature-laden OpenType family with both type styles superbly complementing each other. Organon Sans & Serif work … Read More
MFred 2.0
MFred was donated to BuyFontsSaveLives by designer Matt Willey in honour of his father Nick who was taken by cancer in 2011. MFred is a condensed caps-only headline face that also includes alternate versions of the G, K, M, R and W glyphs. This much sought after headline font was originally drawn for ELEPHANT magazine, then subsequently used … Read More
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