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Stay updated with the latest from Mark Simonson, renowned type designer behind Proxima Nova and other iconic fonts. Explore his thoughts on typography, vintage design influences, and the art of lettering.

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Latest posts

Introducing Neotype

Introducing Heckle

The Day I Discovered Type Design

Introducing Hardcover

Mark Simonson Studio at 25

Proxima Nova Turns 20

Proxima Nova Font Pairing: Our Favorite Fonts

Fonts Similar to Proxima Nova: Our Favorite Picks

Introducing Synergy

Proxima Super Nova

Type Design Like It’s 1987

Three New Heavyweights

Down the Rabbit Hole with Apple’s Ancient Font Editor 2.0

(Re)introducing Skin & Bones

Interview: Douglas F. Jones, Designer of Skin & Bones

Introducing Viroqua: Kandal Revisited

Caricatures. Wait—What?

Pre-Digital Font Tech No. 1: Formatt

Introducing Proxima Nova Wide & Extra Wide

Direct Sales Are Back (Plus Live Font Previews)

1979

“Typecasting” Revisited

Introducing Dreamboat

Introducing Proxima Sera

What Serif Font Should I Pair with Proxima Nova?

The Bookmania Cookbook

Ohno Radio Interview

Introducing Proxima Vara

Mostra Nuova in Entertainment Weekly

Introducing Etna

Acme Gothic Sightings

Studio Tour Update

De Re Atari

Mostra Nuova 2.0

Goldenbook 2.0 and Refrigerator Deluxe 2.0

Introducing HWT Konop

Announcing Font News

Introducing Acme Gothic and Parkside

Coquette 2.0

Introducing Proxima Soft

Interview on the Cedar Cathedral Podcast

That Japanese Woodcut (and Happy Birthday, Mac!)

Proxima Nova 2.008

Adventures in Roller Calligraphy

Coquette Sighting - The Letter O

The Quagmire of Print-Think

Renaissance Anomaly

Dexter’s Mother’s Bread

Typekit, The Early Years

Jeff Nelson