Bringing the classic ‘Scotch’ style up to date, Chronicle Display is an extensive family of headline faces rooted in news typography.
Initially inspired by the markings on watch dials, Decimal not only evokes the confident lettering of classic timepieces, but uses design strategies that help it master information-dense environments.
Quarto is a seriffed display family marked by controlled contrast. Its fluid motions are checked by a steadfast rhythm, its density invigorated by sudden geometric turns and sharp corners.
A typeface with lightly-worn futurism, Sagittarius is equally at home among the beauty and wellness aisles, or the coils of the warp core.
Unbound by the traditional limitations of the Antique and Clarendon styles, Sentinel is a fresh take on a familiar and practical typographic genre.
In his words.
“Designers rely on typefaces to help convey their ideas to their audience. If a typeface is well-made, it cannot only bear that weight, but support designers in reaching for heights they couldn’t before.”
Colin is an advanced font engineer based in New York. He is a graduate of the Type and Media masters program at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) undergraduate program before that. Over the past decade as a type designer, he has lectured and taught workshops at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, the Cooper Union, MICA, and the Letterform Archive. He teaches a course in font production for the [email protected] Extended Program.
Prior to joining Monotype, Colin worked on a variety of projects at H&Co, including Decimal, which was featured in the Netflix documentary series, Abstract. Other favorite projects include Chronicle Hairline, Quarto, Sentinel Pro, and Sagittarius.
