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We make original typefaces for client commissions and retail licensing. Tweets by Fred, Nina, and Tobias.

New York City
Joined April 2012
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1 year
Big news: we now offer free Trial versions of all our retail fonts! Preview any style from our library in your mockups and proposals. Download now!
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RT @CommArts: EXHIBIT: Tobias Frere-Jones' Supermassive type family explores visual stability with heavy strokes, designed for impactful he…
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@frerejones
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8 months
In three cap-only styles drawn for headline sizes — and larger! — Supermassive is not quite stable, but always forceful. Design: Tobias Frere-Jones Contributions: Rosie Ma @ninastoessinger @fredshallcrass
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@frerejones
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1 year
Ben Fehrman-Lee designed our new library specimen, showing our retail library with its newest addition, Community Gothic. A new approach: no waterfalls! It’s gorgeous; 60pp, printed on four paper stocks, lots of type & full-color images. Get your own:
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@frerejones
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2 years
Our friend @Yotam designed this newsprint specimen of Community Gothic for Typographics. “A Bed of Eels” uses collective nouns to showcase this family of fonts, & includes @domesticetch ’s essay about the design. Extra copies available in our shop:
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2 years
@victoriaalissia “Mental status is at baseline” you’re just going to leave that right there aren’t you
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2 years
In this second installment: Archer followed in Surveyor’s footsteps, created to combine and contrast with it. Learn about its story, recorded by @realdougwilson
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@frerejones
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2 years
Intel One Mono breaks from convention by prioritizing linespace & extender lengths over an inflated x-height to help readers differentiate better between letter shapes. The family contains four weights with matching italics. Try them for yourself!
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2 years
New on the blog: we asked Elizabeth Goodspeed @domesticetch to help tell the story behind Community Gothic. The family sums up two decades of experimentation, and the strands of type history that inspired it are more intricate than they may seem:
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2 years
The story of Community Gothic begins with the sans serif “jobbing” typefaces of the 19th century: clear and durable, though often coarse, even awkward. Our family revives the gritty forms of that genre, and the patchwork sets such designs came in.
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@frerejones
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2 years
Community Gothic — the newest release by Frere-Jones Type @frerejones — was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, Fred Shallcrass @FredShallcrass & Nina Stössinger @ninastoessinger with contributions by Julia Ma @pointlesstars
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@frerejones
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2 years
The website is back online! Thanks for your patience.
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@frerejones
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2 years
@HelloLeo Not just you! Sorry, it’s not meant to be an elaborate tease.
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Frere-Jones Type
2 years
Hi all, we’re aware that our website is down—we’re working on getting it back up. Sorry & stay tuned!
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