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We invited graphic designer and art director Marc Armand into our library to pick out the type specimens, catalogues and design curiosities he loves, uses, and (only occasionally) disagrees with.

Emmanuel Besse’s notes on his latest release

The first proofs of the last typeface designed by Cassandre.

Originally created in 1967, the “Hershey Fonts” are among the earliest digital representations of type. Their creator, Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey, was not an ordinary typeface designer – he was employed as a theoretical physicist at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, VA. Hershey’s usual work was mostly theoretical: he concerned himself with the analysis of submerged ships and their influence the waves flowing above, he calculated how liquids behave when they flow around objects, and analyzed ship hulls.

Debuting in the Production Type Catalog in 2018, Tuner is a versatile and expressive collection of 14 fonts that’s worth a deeper look. On first glance, it’s a clean and classic grotesque sans typeface with a modernist air and a contemporary personality, but that immediate sense of familiarity is quickly followed by a surprise sense of oddity, prompting questions like “Is that monospaced?” “What’s up with those apexes?” “How would you use that?”

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