Good as Gold TL;DR I migrated and reworked this website's backend and launched a new Gold membership tier for people like you. I started writing on the web over 25 years ago. For a while, it was frequent. Perhaps too frequent. And, at times, cringe-worthy. I wasn't alone
Simple Type Club Hello friends, today I'm excited to announce something special: Simple Type Club! A very special calendar-year 2024 subscription which bundles all of our typefaces along with other great perks through December 31, 2024. I wanted to rethink the concept of a “fonts bundle” and add some other perks,
For Immediate Release SALEM, MA—Today, SimpleBits® LLC announced the acquisition of Simple Type Co. in a blockbuster deal that brings two extremely connected and confusingly-similar brands (run by the same person) now under one roof. “We're really excited to bring the Simple Type Co. fonts and goods shop we made
Simple Type Co. At the beginning of the pandemic, I decided to channel my existential anxiety into a long-standing goal of designing a typeface. It would actually be a second attempt, as back in 2007 I'd hacked together a pixel font based on little 16×16 icons. That one doesn'
Twenty Years of SimpleBits I used to design websites for a living. What a way to kick off a dusty ol' blog! This year, 2022, marks the 20th anniversary SimpleBits—or more specifically the anniversary of the simplebits.com domain name, which I registered for my blog and later a freelance design studio.
Hyper Static Text I am not big on resolutions, but like many of you, I'd sure like to write more this year. Writing was the single biggest factor in helping my career, and it's led me to start new projects, find new interests, helped solved problems, etc. I'
