An Update for Hubano Now available, Hubano 2.0! I added two more weights, some additional glyphs and symbols—plus many fixes and tweaks. I'm excited that this one has a lot more versatility now that just the single, thin weight it launched with. Hubano is an all-caps display serif inspired
Secret Club™ 2026 Updates Greetings, folks! I write to you today with a quick—but impactful—update to our Secret Club™ offering to kick off the new year. Starting today, an annual SC subscription will include access to our entire font library, as well as any future releases while you're a member.
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
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
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
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'
