Niche Biz: Designing Fonts
Inspiration for Matt Desmond’s latest font struck him while browsing vintage Russian weaponry at a Minneapolis gun show.
There he came upon an artillery box of bandoleers featuring a font from a bygone era. The typeset was hastily stenciled and spray-painted blue. Gritty and original. Just his style.
An iPhone picture, and a few-clicks-of-a-mouse later, and a font was born.
This south Minneapolis “font cowboy” is one of only a handful (fewer than 100 in the nation) making their living designing specialized fonts. He said he’s one of five he knows of in the Twin Cities involved in this “small, specialized niche” of graphic design.
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Jaclyn on March 17th, 2009 11:31 am
that looks like a very unique and cool invention.
Angela Shupe on March 17th, 2009 7:14 pm
I love fonts, I like to download new ones when I have something I want to put together. Whether is some simple background or some other small graphic. Although, I never really thought there was a market for them. I always download mine from one of those free-for-use websites.
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