the portfolio of steve mackley
A little late…My (still incomplete) sans serif face Silverback won first place at the Punchcutters Exhibition held in late November. Co-sponsored by the Society of Typographic Arts and the Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago, the exhibition pulled in around a dozen submissions. Rick Valicenti and Linda Blackwell judged.
Needless to say I am quite pleased. Who doesn’t love external validation.
I’ve completed more on the font. Most glyphs are now complete. The biggest addition is accented characters and old-style figures. Small Caps are coming, and then I commence to kerning.
For my font the uppercase, lowercase, numbers and punctuation are nearly complete. Working on international characters and ordinals. I’ve also started kerning and some of the Type 1 hinting.
Here is the first draft of the lower case for the new font. Kerning, and hinting to follow soon.
Merike Lower Case
Here are some of the various sketches for the new font. The idea is for a humanist that isn’t as neutral as Univers or Frutiger; but not as expressive/quirky as Meta and Syntax.
Numbers & Puncuation
lowercase g and s
My name’s Steve MacKley, and I’m a creative director & designer with leadership experience in graphic, type and interactive design—plus a solid grounding in IA, strategy and research. My industry experience includes online retail, consumer electronics, as well as pharma / healthcare. I also have a strong interest in fonts and type design. Oh and I shouldn't forget to mention my bike infatuation.
